Environmental Justice Essay Collection

These essays were submitted by faculty in preparation for the InTeGrate Environmental Justice workshop in April 2013.


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Creating Empathy for People in Difficult Environmental Situations
Angie Gumm, St. Mary's Parish Catholic School
An essay page from the InTeGrate project discussing pedagogical strategies for fostering empathy in environmental justice education, using case studies like the Green Revolution and waste management to explore ethical dilemmas, student engagement, and interdisciplinary teaching approaches. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Identifying the Spatial Injustice of the Environment
Andrew Scholl, Kent State University at Kent
This webpage is an academic essay discussing the spatial dimensions of environmental injustice, emphasizing how unequal environmental resource distribution and complex system dynamics create geographic disparities in environmental impacts, particularly affecting marginalized communities lacking power to influence change. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Engaging Students in Research-Led Learning on Environmental Justice
Sya Kedzior, Towson University
This essay page details a pedagogical approach to teaching environmental justice through student-led community research, emphasizing hands-on fieldwork, local water security assessment, and qualitative methods in geography education, as part of the InTeGrate project's interdisciplinary workshop collection. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Close Reading--and Close Writing--Environmental Justice
Amanda Hagood, Hendrix College
This webpage is an academic essay discussing how English educators can integrate environmental justice into literary studies by combining close reading with reflective writing exercises, using narrative point of view and local experiential learning to deepen students' ethical and affective engagement with environmental inequities. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Crossing Disciplinary and Movement Divides: Towards an Integrated Environmental Justice Pedagogy
Bhavna Shamasunder, Occidental College
Personal essay page by Bhavna Shamasunder discussing her interdisciplinary approach to teaching environmental justice, integrating science, social science, and community activism, developed through her academic and professional experiences in environmental health and justice. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Global Corporate Social Responsibility
Julie Rothbardt, Monmouth College
This academic essay page examines global corporate social responsibility (CSR) as an interdisciplinary business ethics topic, defining CSR, discussing its integration into curriculum, and exploring its relationship with environmental justice, sustainability, and societal impact in international business contexts. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Teaching Environmental Justice with Rhetorical Theory: Ecofeminist Wayfinding, Emplacement, and Agency
Lisa Phillips, Texas Tech University
This webpage is an academic essay discussing the integration of rhetorical theory and ecofeminism into environmental justice pedagogy, emphasizing sensory wayfinding, emplacement, and ethical agency in teaching practices. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

The Uneven Burden of Risk: My Approach to Teaching Environmental Justice
Anna Versluis, Gustavus Adolphus College
An essay page by Anna Versluis detailing her interdisciplinary pedagogical approach to teaching environmental justice in a Nature and Society course, emphasizing critical realist perspectives, social inequities in environmental risk distribution, and influences from key scholars and personal experiences in Haiti. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Finding the Origin of Environmental Injustice in a Broad Social and Historical Context
Josefina Li, Bemidji State University
This webpage is an academic essay discussing the systemic roots of environmental injustice through a broad social, historical, and interdisciplinary lens, emphasizing pedagogical approaches to teaching these issues by connecting racism, classism, and ecological economics within a framework of sustainability and social justice. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Environmental Justice: making students comfortable about the uncomfortable
April Baptiste, Colgate University
An essay page from the InTeGrate project discussing pedagogical strategies for teaching environmental justice, emphasizing classroom openness, critical thinking, and the use of workshops and student-led discussions to engage learners with challenging socio-environmental issues. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.