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Implementing (Environmental) Justice: Equity And Performance In California's S.B. 535, Meagan Tokunaga

Pomona Senior Theses

This thesis evaluates the equity performance of a recent state environmental justice policy, California’s Senate Bill 535 (S.B. 535). “Environmental justice” refers to the disproportionate environmental harm imposed on low-income and minority communities. S.B. 535 uses competitive grants to provide funding to these communities. The research is centered around two questions: (1) to what extent has S.B. 535 experienced successful implementation in its first year of operation, and (2) how can policy actors improve implementation while balancing performance and equity goals? In regards to the first question, I utilize a case study of the policy’s implementation within 17 local governments …

Why Prior Appropriation Needs Equity, Duane Rudolph

Water Law Review

No abstract provided.

Regulating Farming: Balancing Food Safety And Environmental Protection In A Cooperative Governance Regime, Margot J. Pollans

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

After providing a brief overview of regulation in each area, Part I of this Article identifies three types of discordance between produce safety and environmental protection on farms. First, because of limited resources, farmers will have to choose between implementing food safety practices and implementing environmental practices. Second, indirect trade-offs between the two regulatory goals result in damaging collateral consequences for the environment. Food safety regulation may exacerbate a range of existing environmental harms. Third, there is at least one direct clash that may make compliance with food safety law incompatible with participation in certain environmental programs. Part I also …

Legal Tools For Climate Adaptation Advocacy: Flood Insurance, Matt Sienkiewicz

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

This paper explores the impact that climate change will have on flooding and provides details on the operation and functions of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The paper then discuss the ways the current regime discourages adaptation to climate change, and offers suggestions for how readers can promote climate change adaptation by advocating for changes to the NFIP.

Trial By Water: Reflections On Superstorm Sandy, Thomas Maligno, Benjamin Rajotte

Fordham Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

An Examination Of The Desalination Process And Facility, Elizabeth M. Granger

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

Architectural Exclusion: Discrimination And Segregation Through Physical Design Of The Built Environment, Sarah B. Schindler

Faculty Publications

The built environment is characterized by man-made physical features that make it difficult for certain individuals — often poor people and people of color — to access certain places. Bridges were designed to be so low that buses could not pass under them in order to prevent people of color from accessing a public beach. Walls, fences, and highways separate historically white neighborhoods from historically black ones. Wealthy communities have declined to be served by public transit so as to make it difficult for individuals from poorer areas to access their neighborhoods. Although the law has addressed the exclusionary impacts …

Climate Change Law In California And Massachusetts: Lessons For State Policy Makers, Riti Chandiok

UC Law Environmental Journal

No abstract provided.

Environmental Concerns In India: Problems And Solutions, Mahesh Chandra

Journal of International Business and Law

No abstract provided.

Local Sustainability Movement Rides Wave Of Evolving Federalism To 'Axe' Private Property Rights, Lawrence A. Kogan

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.

The Incorporation Of Health Impact Analysis Into Land Use Regulation: Using Health Impact Assessments To Promote Sustainable, Healthy Communities, Liz Darling Edmondson

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.

A Management Framework For Municipal Solid Waste Systems And Its Application To Food Waste Prevention, Krista L. Thyberg, David J. Tonjes

Technology & Society Faculty Publications

Waste management is a complex task involving numerous waste fractions, a range of technological treatment options, and many outputs that are circulated back to society. A systematic, interdisciplinary systems management framework was developed to facilitate the planning, implementation, and maintenance of sustainable waste systems. It aims not to replace existing decision-making approaches, but rather to enable their integration to allow for inclusion of overall sustainability concerns and address the complexity of solid waste management. The framework defines key considerations for system design, steps for performance monitoring, and approaches for facilitating continual system improvements. It was developed by critically examining the …

Nurturing Environmental Literacy At Colby College: Higher Education And The Environmental Crisis, Molly Nash

Honors Theses

The environmental crisis will affect all people, career paths, and academic disciplines. Acknowledging this, does higher education have an obligation to educate all students for environmental literacy (EL)? This study reviews literature on how to effectively assess and implement EL initiatives and highlights how other colleges successfully nurture EL in all students. This study also uses quantitative and qualitative survey measures to understand student levels of EL at Colby College and to highlight specific programming or curriculum that leads to high EL levels in students. Findings include significantly different EL scores between environmental studies student respondents and respondents in all …

The Bunk House Rules: Housing Migrant Labour In Ontario, Adrian A. Smith

Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper Series

The paper tackles the recent controversy surrounding an application to convert an abandoned school into housing for migrant agricultural workers in Ontario, Canada. It examines how the written reactions of community residents to a proposed municipal zoning by-law amendment convey and invoke understandings of the legal regulation of temporary labour migration. When viewed through a legal consciousness analytic lens, reconstituted to attend to the material practices and context underpinning residents’ discursive and ideological responses, what I term a ‘materialist legal consciousness studies’, it is evident that the residents’ submissions intervene in the organization and regulation of agricultural production. While framed …

Climate Change And Human Rights: How? Where? When?, Basil E. Ugochukwu

Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper Series

Climate change poses a threat to several internationally recognized human rights, including the rights to food, a livelihood, health, a healthy environment, access to water and the rights to work and to cultural life. Actions taken to mitigate and adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change have to be centred on human rights. In negotiations for a binding international climate change instrument, nation states have been called upon to fully respect human rights in all climate-related actions. As important as this demand is, there is also the need to describe and plan how human rights can be integrated into …

Bulletin: General Catalog Issue 2015-2016, Portland State University

Bulletin & Curriculum Change Documents

Volume 1 is available via the Download option, Volume 2 is available in the Additional Files below

Climate Change Adaptation In Indian Country: Tribal Regulation Of Reservation Lands And Natural Resources, Jamie Kay Ford, Erick Giles

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Redd+: Climate Justice Or A New Face Of Manifest Destiny? Lessons Drawn From The Indigenous Struggle To Resist Colonization Of Ojibwe Forests In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Philomena Kebec

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.

"Free The Land": A Call For Local Governments To Address Climate-Induced Food Insecurity In Environmental Justice Communities, Liza Guerra Garcia

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Winter 2015, Seattle University

Seattle University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Sustainable Chicago 2015: A Political Analysis, Zachary A. Brown

Master's Theses

Over the last decade, many of America's urban areas have developed "sustainability plans" focusing on the long-term viability of their communities. Although many local governments have concentrated on environmental issues, others have incorporated economic and social policies. A new subset of literature has emerged highlighting equity and social justice within the sustainability dialogue. Scholars and practitioners alike argue that true sustainability requires equal access to all three pillars of sustainability for all groups.

Through interviews with public and private actors, as well as content analysis of the plan, this study investigates the structure of the governance network responsible for the …

The Intersection Of Federally Regulated Power Markets And State Energy And Environmental Goals, Julia Sullivan

Fordham Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

Dibe' Bikee' Deya: Following Sheep In Coal Country, Caitlin A. Piserchia

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

Black Mesa is a mineral-rich area of the Navajo and Hopi Nations in Arizona; it is both the locus of the historic so-called Hopi-Navajo land conflict and the coal mines that have helped make possible the electricity usage of Las Vegas. It is also a case study in cultural change and resistance in response to pressures of industrialization and capitalism. In an interdisciplinary, creative nonfiction writing project, I am looking in particular at the pressures on sheepherding as livelihood in Black Mesa. I will examine how sheepherding has changed since the advent of the Black Mesa and Kayenta coal mines. …

Enst 530.01: The Greening Of Religion - Religion, Nature And The Environment, Daniel T. Spencer

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Environmental Governance In The Carbon Economy: Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions In California's Cap-And-Trade Program, Patrick M. Bigger

Theses and Dissertations--Geography

Since 2006 California has been pursuing the most ambitious climate change policy in the United States, implementing a suite of greenhouse gas reduction measures ranging from automobile refrigerant disposal rules to clean energy standards for electric power utilities. The most significant of these measures is the creation of a cap‐and‐trade program. Through this program, regulators seek to create a knowable price‐signal to incentivize emissions reductions among polluters. Using a suite of ethnographic methods, this dissertation looks at the people, ideas, and institutions that have been mobilized in the creation of California’s cap‐and‐ trade program.

Substantively, the dissertation engages with three …

Engl 6231, Elizabeth Steeby

University of New Orleans Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Murp 6620, Anna Livia Brand

University of New Orleans Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Soc 2871, Francis Adeola

University of New Orleans Syllabi

No abstract provided.

A Tale Of Two Landscapes: Examining Alienation And Non-Visitation Among Local African American Fishers At Congaree National Park, Janae Davis

Theses and Dissertations

The Wilderness Act of 1964 limits acceptable activities in federally designated wilderness areas to those associated with leisure, scenic viewing, education and scientific inquiry. These stipulations, which privileged the interests of the early environmental movement’s elite white leaders and disregarded uses valued by racial/ethnic minorities and working class groups, continue to inform wilderness management in national parks. This legacy of exclusion is evidenced by national park visitation statistics showing overrepresentation1 of whites and underrepresentation of African Americans (Meeker, Woods, & Lucas, 1973; P. A. Taylor, Grandjean, & Gramann, 2011). The purpose of this study is to understand how wilderness management …

Renewable Energy Development And Environmental Justice In Thailand: A Case Of Biomass Power Plant In Roi-Et Province, Yeji Yoo

Journal of Social Sciences

This paper reviews the policies and practices of renewable energy development and biomass power projects in Thailand. Thailand has allowed private power producers to generate energy from biomass, as an important source of renewable energy, in order to increase energy security and to reduce CO2 emissions. However, some biomass projects in Thailand have resulted in negative environmental effects and social problems, such as air pollution and health problems for villagers near the projects, which thus create environmental injustices. Applying the concept of environmental justice, the research examines impacts and benefits of the biomass project on the environment through a case …