Environmental Justice

Catalog description

The goals of the course are to (1) understand the nature and geography of specific environmental hazards, such as industrial chemicals, pesticides, hazardous waste, electronic waste, air pollution, and nuclear waste, as well as explore public policy initiatives for managing such hazards and their advance impacts. (2) Explore the racial/ ethnic and socioeconomic dimensions of various environmental issues, as well as the environmental aspects of economic and social justice concerns. (3) Provide a comprehensive and critical overview of the empirical research literature on EJ analysis.