PART I: ORIENTATION TO EJ

 

 

Class 1 (June 26): Class Orientation

* Class orientation/introductions

 

 

 

 

Class 2 (June 28): Context of Environmental Justice

 

 

* DUE: READING ANALYSIS #1

* Complete Environmental Scorecard (to help with your Ecological Sources Analysis)

 

 

* Kuehn, Robert “A Taxonomy of Environmental Justice,” 30 ELR 10681 (2000)

* Dorceta Taylor, “The Rise of the Environmental Justice Paradigm,” pp508-580 (SKIM)

 

 

Links from Class:

 

* 1994 Executive Order (12898) on EJ

* EPA Basic Definition of 'EJ'

 

 

 

Class 3 (July 3): History of Environmental Justice

 

*DUE: ECOLOGICAL SOURCES ANALYSIS

* Take Ecological Footprint Quiz

* Determining Your Electricity Profile (from EPA)

 

* JS, Introduction, pp. 1-13; Chapter 2, pp. 38-61

* QEJ, Forward, Preface, Introduction, pp. ix-xviii, pp. 1-17 and Chapter 1, pp. 18-42

* NST, Prologue, pp. 11-23; Chapter 1, "The Ojibwa of Grassy Narrows," pp. 27-57

* NST, Chapter 4, “Three Mile Island: A New Species of Trouble,” pp. 139-157

* Environmental Justice Roundtable, pp. 15-26

 

 

History of Environmental Justice (Radio Excerpt)

 

 

 

 

Class 4 (July 5): What is Environmental Justice?

 

* DUE: READING ANALYSIS #2

 

 

* David Schlosberg, “Reconceiving Environmental Justice,” pp. 517-537

* NST, Chapter 5, “Being Homeless,” pp. 158-181

* NST, Chapter 7, “Yucca Mountain: Good Riddance, Bad Rubbish,” pp. 203-225

* JS, Chapter 12, “Maori Kaupapa and the Inseparability of Social and Environmental Justice,” pp. 252-266

* Comfort, EJ Reader, “Struggle in Ogoniland: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Cultural Politics of EJ,” pp. 229-243

 

* Jo'burg Memo: Int'l Summit on Sustainable Development (including Justice concerns) (pdf)

 

 

 

 

 


 

KEY:

 

JS = Just Sustainabilities

QEJ = Quest for Environmental Justice

NST = New Species of Trouble