Global Environmental Justice: Issues and Places

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In this class, you will explore how communities around the world are responding to unequal environmental burdens, and how these local-scale issues fit into broader global trends such as climate change. We will engage with key environmental justice issues surrounding waste, pollution, water, mining, energy, and more in regions ranging from Latin America to the Arctic and from Sub-Saharan Africa to South and East Asia. At the same time, we will consider how broader geopolitical and economic structures affect environmental justice between countries and regions, and the status of environmental justice work in the US in the current era. The course will prepare you to research and take action on specific environmental justice issues of interest to you, both in and beyond the classroom.