Environmental Justice

Catalog description

Pre- or Co-requisite: ENSC 4000 Environmental Education and Outreach Practice or permission of the instructor. Concurrent enrollment is acceptable. This course will cover the foundation of the environmental justice movement, sociocultural, political and economic processes by which environmental inequities by race, socioeconomic status and gender are believed to have arisen and continue to persist. Environmental issues such as landfills, air pollution issues, water pollution issues, solid, chemical & hazardous waste disposal, nuclear & biological waste issues, global oil spill and coastal impacts and climate change issues. Environmental justice solutions will also be identified and examined.