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Julian Agyeman Ph.D. FRSA Associate Professor and Chair, Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning |
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NOTE: To get more detailed information about any of these courses, please contact me! UEP 278 Environmental Justice, Security and Sustainability Environmental justice is concerned with the processes through which inequalities arise and are maintained through social, political and environmental decision making. Resulting actions and policies have been shown to place a disproportionate risk on certain groups at the local, regional, national, and international level, with security implications. This course will look at: the concept of social and environmental justice; the history and development of the US environmental justice movement; racism, resource colonization and the destruction of indigenous and First People's cultures; the specter of environmental insecurity and at the role of a much broadened concept of environmental justice in shaping new sustainability discourses, ethics, policies, and plans for the twenty-first century. UEP 284 Developing Sustainable Communities This course will explore the many challenges of achieving sustainable development through a coherent and thought provoking overview of moves towards developing sustainable communities. The course will focus on improving the quality of people’s lives, on disinvested communities and on the inequitable distribution of income, wealth and environmental hazards. It will investigate the theory of sustainable development and ask about the principles, tools and techniques and in what contexts we can move towards the ecological integrity, economic security, empowerment, responsibility and social well being characteristic of sustainable communities. Case studies will be drawn from around the world
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