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All My Relations: The Journey Of Discovering My Ecological Identity, Mike Rosekrans
All My Relations: The Journey Of Discovering My Ecological Identity, Mike Rosekrans
Summit to Salish Sea: Inquiries and Essays
Everyone has a story to tell; a story about their journey, about their struggles, about discovering themselves, and about how they became who they are as a person. A person’s journey may help explain how one forms their identity and perceives themselves. That journey may include: values, beliefs, attitudes, hobbies, spiritual paths, or profound inspirations that have helped shape and giving meaning to a person’s life. This script is such a story. It is a story about how I became a more confident, complete person dedicated to protecting and preserving the natural world. This occurred while seeking inspiration and solace …
Gentrified Sustainability: Inequitable Development And Seattle’S Skewed Riskscape, Troy D. Abel, Jonah White
Gentrified Sustainability: Inequitable Development And Seattle’S Skewed Riskscape, Troy D. Abel, Jonah White
College of the Environment on the Peninsulas Publications
This paper examines the tensions of sustainable development in Seattle, Washington, a commonly recognised urban environmental leader. Drawing on the perspective of sustainability as a conflicted process, this research expected a negative relationship between gentrification and environmental justice when affluent residents outcompete less affluent ones for neighbourhoods with fewer environmental hazards. The methods combine geographic cluster analysis and longitudinal air toxic emission comparisons to analyse socioeconomic changes in Seattle Census block-groups between 1990, 2000, and 2009 coupled with measures of relative potential risk and pollution volume. The property and development conflicts embedded within sustainability lead to pollution exposure risk and …