The U.S. Census Bureau defines “rural” as “any population, housing, or territory NOT in an urban area.” At the most basic level, then, the rural is defined by what it is not. The definition comes with real consequences for rural places in the U.S., which receive disproportionate…
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Background and Significance: Despite the many historical efforts by the U.S. to reduce lead (Pb) in the environment, childhood Pb poisoning continues to be a public health issue today. Pb has been identified as a child hazard because children are highly vulnerable to the effects…
Despite the benefits of urban greenspace, Atlanta’s Westside Park is causing gentrification and displacement pressures in Grove Park, a low-income African-American community in northwest Atlanta, Georgia. This study used data from qualitative semi-structured interviews with comm…
Though incorporating more open and green space into our urban communities is more important than ever in the United States, The Green Movement has focused on incorporating green space and walkability into heavily concentrated urban areas such as downtown Atlanta. However, there …
This research examines the political ecological processes that drive and resist extractivism. I use socio-ecological theory, mixed methods, and interdisciplinary critical analysis to better understand how El Salvador became the only country in history to ban metal mining. Though…
Environmental damage disproportionately affects communities of color. Understanding how environmental racism uniquely affects marginalized communities is crucial to effectively develop public policies that will address the systematic racism that is rooted in many existing polici…
Indigenous West African farmers are among the most climate change threatened globally. Food insecurity is prevalent in West Africa because ecological, social, political, and economic instabilities, and globalization worsen climate pressures. In this study, I collaborated with th…
There is nothing profound about going to nature for contemplation. Perhaps, however, there is something profound about using “nothing” to contemplate nature. Nothing, in this sense, refers to an absence of something: an interval, break, gap, space, or, specifically in the case o…
Even as environmental scholars agree on the urgency of climate change, the crisis is less often linked to the US education system itself, which continues to operate as if we were not in the midst of a planetary emergency. As more environmental educators advocate for substantive …
The current ecological crisis is arguably the most significant social problem of the 21 st century. Yet despite this, public engagement with climate change is viewed to be too low for either the public or private sectors of society to address the problem adequately. The present …
A Strategic Environmental Justice Assessment Methodology (SEJAM) for identifying environmental justice concerns at the policy, planning, program, and procedure (P4) levels of assessment is developed. Through a review of environmental justice mandates of the National Environmenta…
Transportation-related air and noise pollution from heavy-duty freight engines is associated with respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses, cancer, diabetes, nervous system and cognitive effects, hospital admissions, sleep disruption, and premature mortality. Research is needed …
In 2016, An estimated 15,000 people representing 400 Indigenous Nations and non-indigenous allies gathered at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in solidarity against the Dakota Access Pipeline to protect Mni Sose, the Missouri River. They became known as the Water Protectors. …
In an urban environment, dense development is highly rated for its environmental sustainability, economic benefits, neighborhood walkability, access to basic services, reduced infrastructure, and positive social exchange. Thus, older and transitioning communities experience pres…
Environmental Justice Witnessing in the Modernist Poetry of Lola Ridge, Muriel Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Elizabeth Bishop analyzes the poetic forms used by four modernist American women poets to trace depictions of social oppression that are tied to specific landscapes. My…
This qualitative research is a transcendental phenomenology seeking to understand Latin@ high school students’ perceptions and standpoints as they participated lessons that addressed border environmental justice issues in an underrepresented, marginalized community. Seven studen…
This dissertation contests the idea that environmental justice discourse emerges solely from the United States. It creates dialogue between texts that represent a traditional American environmental justice frame and those that depict situations of environmental injustice outside…
In the last few decades, the concept of a food desert has captured the attention of the public and academia. Research has referred to food desert as an area with lack of access to adequate healthy food, especially for those without a vehicle or who live more than 1⁄4 mile walkin…
L'avènement des changements climatiques a donné lieu à l'émergence d'une nouvelle problématique, soit celle des migrations environnementales. Longtemps méconnu, ce phénomène complexe pose des difficultés au niveau de la terminologie et du statut juridique, ce qui complique la mi…