Essential Elements Discussion

What are the core concepts, habits, and skills we hope will be integrated into geoscience and where do you integrate them?

Summary:

importance and nature of EJ
role of geoscience in solutions
respectful engagement with community
two-way authentic communication, community dialog
collaboration (with community and across disciplines)
appreciating the cost to society of EJ issues
how scientific approach can show unequivocaly the injustice issues
learning the language of EJ
questioning and structured decision making
understanding the role of your culture in framing your stratgy
highlighting disparities
co-design of research
consensus building, discussion, listening
finding solutions to problems that others bring to us in addition to us finding solutions from our persespective
the relationship of geologic processes to both problems and solutions
ability to explain and communicate geoscience in plain english
role of geoscientist is to empower community to solve its own problems
recognizing the geoscience in someones plain english description of the problem
deeper understanding of the underpinning science
an understanding of the perspectives on the nature of justice and injustice
the relationship between the geoscience to other influences on the solution (values, relationship to context)
what is fact and what is interpretation and the importance of both things