ETHS 304 Environmental Justice and Public Policy

General

• Determine how intersectionalities of socially-constructed identities impact exposure and protective factors to environmental injustice and capabilities to mobilize against environmental inequality.
• Explain the origins, influences, and strategies on worldwide environmental justice movements through comparative and interdisciplinary approaches.
• Integrate and apply environmental justice frameworks into the wide variety of issues and environmental struggles impacting contemporary and historical communities of color, poor communities, and Indigenous Peoples.
• Question the efficacy, efficiency, and equity within current public policy directions in achieving environmental justice goals.
• Understand the multidimensional characteristics of key terms such as but not limited to environmental racism, environment, nature, wilderness, public policy, food security, xenobiotic, the north/south divide, the Columbian Exchange, ecological citizenship, and the many types of justice.