Anna Versluis
Geography
Gustavus Adolphus College
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Activity (1)
Introducing students to a critical realist approach to environmental justice in the U.S. part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching Environmental Justice: Interdisciplinary Approaches:Activities
This activity describes how students in a combined geography and environmental studies undergraduate course are introduced to the concept of environmental justice from a critical realist perspective. Students use the E.P.A.'s environmental justice mapping tool, EJView, and a number of scholarly texts to propose their own research on a U.S. environmental justice case study.
Essay (1)
The Uneven Burden of Risk: My Approach to Teaching Environmental Justice part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching Environmental Justice: Interdisciplinary Approaches:Essays
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.