What works in Richmond
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Evidence snapshot for Richmond
Richmond's 2017 Heat Watch Pilot demonstrates how a low-cost volunteer data-collection campaign directly translated into infrastructure and budget commitments: in July 2017, 15 volunteer teams collected over 60,000 temperature readings that revealed 15–20°F intra-city temperature gaps, with the hottest areas concentrated in tree-poor, historically redlined neighbourhoods. City officials used the heat map to commit to five new parks on Richmond's Southside, and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation directed nearly $1 million toward community tree-planting in response. The protocol has since been formalised by NOAA and CAPA Strategies and deployed in over 120 communities worldwide, though the evidence quantifies only Richmond's direct outcomes and the subsequent geographic spread of the methodology.
Drawn from: Richmond's 2017 Heat Watch Pilot — Seeding CAPA Strategies' Global Urban Heat-Mapping Network · Justinian — Virginia's Statewide AI System for Rewriting and Cutting State Regulations · Virginia DEQ's AI Checklist Assistant for Environmental Permit Reviews · Virginia's Chesapeake Bay Watershed Nutrient Credit Exchange Program
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Inclusiveness / equity +57 pts 100 here · 43 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +52 pts 100 here · 48 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Weaknesses
Governance, capability & sustainability -8 pts 56 here · 64 average
Sustainability / continuity -12 pts 67 here · 78 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -20 pts 33 here · 54 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -28 pts 0 here · 28 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Richmond. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Richmond's 2017 Heat Watch Pilot — Seeding CAPA Strategies' Global Urban Heat-Mapping Network · 91
Justinian — Virginia's Statewide AI System for Rewriting and Cutting State Regulations · 47
Virginia DEQ's AI Checklist Assistant for Environmental Permit Reviews · 40
Virginia's Chesapeake Bay Watershed Nutrient Credit Exchange Program · 40
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 3 other places
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Digital Green — Video-Mediated Agricultural Extension · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Kartu Prakerja – National Digital Skills and Financial Inclusion Programme · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization Programme — Titling Land in Women's Names · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 6 other places
Fit estimates how well a practice matches this place, 0 (poor) to 100 (excellent); the list is ordered to favour practices that address this place's gaps. Know more