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Environmental Justice

Professor(s)

Semester

2021 Summer Environmental - Term 2

About This Class

The environmental justice movement is aimed at avoiding, minimizing, or mitigating disproportionately adverse human health and environmental impacts, including social and economic impacts, on minority and/or low-income communities, and for those communities to be engaged meaningfully in environmental decision-making processes. This course examines this environmental and public health problem. It explores how environmental justice concerns are framed and addressed/resolved through acts of civil disobedience; federal, state and local government initiatives; litigation; collaborative problem-solving; and alternative dispute resolution. This course examines the extrinsic link between environmental justice and sustainable development, and how the EPA, the ABA, and NGOs have been engaged in a number of initiatives to secure sustainable communities in the U.S.

Class Code

ENV5446

Subject

Environmental Law