Environmental Justice: Domestic & International
NRE 492 / Environ 492 / UP 492
Credits: 3

This is primarily a lecture course. Information in the course includes: 1) the definition of environmental racism, environmental equity, envioronmental justice, and environmental advocacy, 2) key research issues in the field of environmental justice which includes race vs. income, intent vs. nonintent, pollution prevention vs. pollution control, cause and effect vs. association, 3) understanding energy and its relation with environmental justice, 4) the social structure of accumulation vs. the social structure of sustainability, 5) comparing issues of environmental justice within the U.S. and within developing countries, 6) comparing the Basel Treaty and the Organization of African Unitys ban on the transport of toxic waste internationally, and the First National Environmental Leadership Summits Seventeen Principles of Environmental Justice. Both domestic and international examples will be used in the course to enhnace teaching and learning. Students will be required to: 1) take a midsemester and a final examination, and 2) develop case studies on environmental justice.