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Showing 1 to 20 of 264 for “"Environmental justice"”.
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Environmental justice
… 2015:5). Social workers are compelled to act on environmental injustices because of their ethical mandate to address social injustices (Erickson, 2012:184). This study adopted green social work (Dominelli,2012) as a theoretical framework. The goal of the study was to explore and describe the role …
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Whose Meanings: Constructing Environmental Justice
… a state regulatory process before the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (EIB). The document researched is the legal transcript of the EIB Hearing in 2006. The hearing was held to revise the New Mexico Solid Waste Regulations and to consider environmental justice provisions. The study …
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Environmental Justice in Ecosystem Restoration Frameworks
… play an important role in mitigating negative environmental impacts that vulnerable communities face. However, no clear guidelines exist on how restoration can be developed in ways that adhere to environmental justice principles. Restoration frameworks are prescriptive models giving steps for …
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Environmental Justice Impacts and Sustainable Solutions
… measures in the workplace to reduce environmental impacts. Understanding and reducing these impacts is critical as the effects of climate change become more apparent and well understood. As the world grapples with the consequences of industrialization on the environment, leaders and …
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Environmental Justice Impacts and Sustainable Solutions
… measures in the workplace to reduce environmental impacts. Understanding and reducing these impacts is critical as the effects of climate change become more apparent and well understood. As the world grapples with the consequences of industrialization on the environment, leaders and …
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Nuclear Waste Management and Environmental Justice in Taiwan.
This thesis examines environmental justice in the context of nuclear waste controversies on Orchid Island in Taiwan through the analysis of the differences between the Yami tribe and the Taiwanese migrants in their attitudes toward risks of the local nuclear waste repository and their understanding …
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Sacred Justices: Seeking Indigenous Environmental Justice in Courts
… how courts encounter and engage with Indigenous environmental justice (IEJ) in litigation pursued by Indigenous communities in Australia, Brazil, and Canada. The thesis advances IEJ as a principle that may be framed, used and developed in juridical spaces. The research draws from existing …
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Environmental justice and its borders : Croatian nuclear waste management
… in Croatia, the thesis examines the elements of environmental justice: its importance and relevance for nuclear waste management, and the principles that can provide sustainability to the case of this study. This is achieved by the review of data made available by the stakeholders, including …
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Environmental justice and participatory democracy: An emancipatory policy proposal
Environmental Justice and Participatory Democracy: An Emancipatory Policy Proposal analyzes the public participation guidelines for the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The author argues that four challenges must be addressed before the goal of environmental justice can be achieved. These …
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The construction of environmental justice: Warren County, North Carolina
"By seeking to ameliorate environmental problems while also working to alleviate poverty and oppression, the construct of environmental justice has transformed environmental activism and altered the national environmental agenda. The controversy over the Warren County landfill is seen as the birth …
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Restoring the Earth: South African Literature and Environmental Justice
… of literature to enrich our understanding of environmental justice in South Africa. The aim of the project is to explore how literature and other forms of cultural imagining have provided a productive medium with which to conceptually reconfigure relations among people and the natural world in …
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The influence of environmental justice on the dioxin controversy
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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A Call For Environmental Justice: Water Access and Alcohol Policies
<p>The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Community Engagement and Health Policy Department (CEHP) bridges academic research, health policy, and community practice to improve public health. Within CEHP is the San Francisco Health Improvement Partnership (SFHIP). The SFHIP partners work …
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Environmental Justice and Obesity Rates In Neighborhoods Surrounding Urban Greenways
… more likely to use the trail, this raises an environmental justice concern about whether vulnerable groups have equal opportunities to participate in physical activity. </p> <p> These issues give rise to several research questions: Is there equity of access to greenways, measured by network …
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Harnessing Environmental Justice to Protect Against Land-grabbing in Cameroon
… examined the issue of land-grabbing through an environmental justice lens. The thesis first reviewed the concept of environmental justice and the threats that land-grabbing by powerful transnational corporations pose to subsistence communities in Africa. Additionally, this study investigated the …
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Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Environmental Justice in Higher Education
<p>Research suggests that issues of environmental justice are not being routinely included in the curriculum of the K-12 classroom and that teachers in those grades do not feel prepared to teach it. Likewise, little has been written about the addition of these topics to higher education coursework, …
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Spatiotemporal approaches to understanding environmental justice and multi-contextual segregation
… and methodologies in racial/ethnic segregation, environmental health, and environmental justice research by incorporating human mobility into an analytical framework. Many environmental justice studies have examined the association between residential segregation and racial disparities in …
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The role of environmental justice in the fight against gentrification
Nationwide environmental justice organizations are involved in campaigns to address gentrification within their communities. This thesis explores the ways in which these organizations connect the issue of gentrification to environmental issues and how they are using community organizing to confront …
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Influence of Tree Planting Program Characteristics on Environmental Justice Outcomes
Urban trees provide a variety of benefits to human physical and mental health. However, prior research has shown that urban tree canopy is unevenly distributed; areas with lower household incomes or higher proportions of racial or ethnic minorities tend to have less canopy. Urban tree benefits are …
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The experience of reducing environmental risks in an environmental justice community
Research on Environmental Justice (EJ) communities has focused on quantitative assessment of environmental hazards and general physical health problems. Little is known about how individuals living in EJ communities perceive their environmental risks and how they reduce environmental risks. The …
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