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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Environmental injustice"”.
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Multiscalar Toxicities: Mapping Environmental Injustice in and Beyond the Nail Salon
… work centers the nail salon a site of potential environmental and occupational health harms due to routine exposure to toxicants, labour exploitation, and verbal and other abuses. These hazards are rooted in structural inequities that position immigrant-settler women of colour in precarious and …
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Decolonizing the YA North: Environmental Injustice in Sherri L. Smith’s Orleans
… “developing”— can lead to catastrophic environmental degradation. Smith’s novel also diverges from other YA novels in that her protagonist is of African descent.</p> <p>This thesis considers how global understandings of the North/South divide can lead to understandings of the divide on a …
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Environmental Planning, Urban Development, and the Making of Environmental Injustice in Minneapolis
… dissertation examines the intersection of urban environmental planning, real estate,and inequality in three case studies in Minneapolis, MN. The first chapter, focused on the period in which racial segregation began to characterize the urban landscape, considers the intersection of racial …
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Air pollution & asthma prevalence: Hotspot analysis on environmental injustice in Buffalo, New York
<p>This research aims to focus on the historical impacts of segregation in these communities (with Census Bureau data) and whether we see that these are the areas with continued segregation and a disproportionate number of TRI facilities. The third part of this research will be to investigate the …
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Perpetual Mobilization and Environmental Injustice: Race and the Contested Development of Industrial Agriculture in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta.
… that agro-industry in the Delta is productive of environmental and social injustice, and that this injustice is confronted by black agricultural practice. A careful historical exploration of agro-industrial development avoids historical disjuncture by emphasizing the continuity between injustice …
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Defining the Environmental Justice Dilemma: a Case Study of Northern Manhattan
Concerns regarding environmental quality and protection have become increasingly relevant within the environmental movement. Yet beyond the struggle for environmental quality and protection, exist the underlying issues of environmental inequity, racism, and classism as injustices for many …
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Addressing Contaminants in Traditional Foods in Alaska: Environmental Justice Framing and Policy Approaches
… they perceive that the situation constitutes an environmental injustice for Alaska Natives. The interview transcripts were analyzed using five sub-frames of the environmental justice framework: distributive justice, procedural justice, indigenous rights, corrective justice, and ecological …
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Addressing Contaminants in Traditional Foods in Alaska: Environmental Justice Framing and Policy Approaches
… they perceive that the situation constitutes an environmental injustice for Alaska Natives. The interview transcripts were analyzed using five sub-frames of the environmental justice framework: distributive justice, procedural justice, indigenous rights, corrective justice, and ecological …
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Participating as amicus curiae in exclusionary zoning litigation : developing the court's understanding of the principles of environmental justice
… of the difficulties in litigating concerns of environmental injustice in order to purpose an alternative approach that still allows groups to enter the public policy forum of the court system while avoiding the confines of acting as a party in litigation. Discovering the shortcomings in …
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Chemical Valley: media representations of an inconvenient truth and a comforting lie
… narratives shape public understanding of environmental harm, maintaining neoliberal ideologies that prioritize industrial interests. Using content analysis of articles from the Sarnia Observer and the Sarnia Journal, key concepts such as fetishistic disavowal, special liberty, and …
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THE AESTHETICS OF MYTHOREALISM AND THE RURAL WORLD IN COMTEMPORARY CHINESE WORLD LITERATURE
… representations of the rural figure in Chinese environmental world literature, who, as an embodiment of backwardness, enters a post-socialist present, but only on its margins. It does so through a sustained analysis of Ma Jian’s The Dark Road and Mo Yan’s Big Breasts and Wide Hips, which expose …
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Distance and disparity: social disadvantage and the distribution of hazardous waste in America
… AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Since the original studies of environmental discrimination were completed in the early 1980s, many scholars have measured disproportionate proximity to hazardous waste by poor and minority communities. The majority of this research has found evidence to support claims of …
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Exploring culturally meaningful definitions of justice and resilience through the lens of sovereign Indigenous foodways
In this thesis I explore frameworks of environmental justice, food justice, and community resilience that center Indigenous communities and their perspectives. First, I conducted an integrative literature review on environmental injustice that uniquely impacts Indigenous communities, specifically …
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Civil society strategies on urban waterways : stewardship, contention, and coalition building
… industrial waterways-with their contamination, environmental injustice, and nebulous development futures given changing economies-present multiple problems that are confronted by environmental civil society organizations. Despite the many problems, these groups view urban waterways as some of …
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Pa’ashi National Park: Resiliency, Restoration, and Reparative Planning for California’s Tulare Lake Basin
… of a new National Park. I present historical and environmental context that explains how the lake was put to sleep by Manifest Destiny-era agricultural settlement and subsequent consolidation of political control over water. I argue that the Tachi Yokut Tribe's proposal for a National Park is a …
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Location choice and environmental performance of toxic-releasing facilities in the United States
… by moving away from or improving their environmental performance in the communities with stronger pressure, which usually have a high socio-economic status. This can lead to disproportionately high exposure of residents to toxic chemicals in those disadvantaged communities, which can …
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Installing Environmental Stewardship: Installation Artworks and the Capacity to Convey Nature Experience
… world to understand its intrinsic value. Due to environmental injustice and poor communication, marginalized communities have decreasing access to green spaces and ecological information. Art installations non-conventionally provide access to nature knowledge and experiences that focus explicitly …
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Beyond Carbon Toward Liberation: An Urban Bioethical Case for a Socially and Environmentally Just University Health System
… issues stemming from historical and contemporary environmental injustice has been growing, yet institutions are still working to identify how to respond. How do we transform University Health System infrastructure, in the built environment and affiliated community assets and human capital, to …
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Occupy, blockade, circulate : narrating community in 21st century crisis fiction
… function of affective blockades to illuminate environmental injustice in Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being and Nell Zink's The Wallcreeper. The third chapter looks to the airport protests that arose in opposition to President Trump's Executive Order 13769, a proposed travel ban, to …
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