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Animal Suffering In China, Peter J. Li Feb 2016

Animal Suffering In China, Peter J. Li

Animal Sentience

Chinese policy has been aimed at maximizing GDP; it is time to focus also on minimizing animal suffering.


Spectator 2016-02-17, Editors Of The Spectator Feb 2016

Spectator 2016-02-17, Editors Of The Spectator

The Spectator

No abstract provided.


February Agenda, Wku Graduate Council Feb 2016

February Agenda, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting agenda


Us Environmental Injustice Goes Well Beyond Flint, Lauren Carasik Feb 2016

Us Environmental Injustice Goes Well Beyond Flint, Lauren Carasik

Media Presence

No abstract provided.


Recent Case Decisions, Daniel Franklin, Jordan Volino, John Curtis, Jarrod H. Gamble, Patrick J. Hoog, Taylor C. Venus Feb 2016

Recent Case Decisions, Daniel Franklin, Jordan Volino, John Curtis, Jarrod H. Gamble, Patrick J. Hoog, Taylor C. Venus

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.


Alum Finds Inspiration And Puts Skills To Work In Turkey, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences Feb 2016

Alum Finds Inspiration And Puts Skills To Work In Turkey, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.


Forging Links Between Food Chain Labor Activists And Academics, Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Jennifer Gaddis, Nathan Mcclintock, Joann Lo, Felipe Tendick-Matesanz, Amy K. Coplen, Anelyse M. Weiler Feb 2016

Forging Links Between Food Chain Labor Activists And Academics, Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Jennifer Gaddis, Nathan Mcclintock, Joann Lo, Felipe Tendick-Matesanz, Amy K. Coplen, Anelyse M. Weiler

Food Studies - All Scholarship

Interest in food movements has been growing dramatically, but until recently there has been limited engagement with the challenges facing workers across the food system. Of the studies that do exist, there is little focus on the processes and relationships that lead to solutions. This article explores ways that community-engaged teaching and research partnerships can help to build meaningful justice with food workers. The text builds on a special roundtable session held at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers in Chicago in April 2015, which involved a range of academic scholars and community-based activists. We present these …


Geography Colloquium |Killing One Trout To Save Another The Hegemonic Political Ecology Of Aquatic Ecological Networks, Feb 12, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences Feb 2016

Geography Colloquium |Killing One Trout To Save Another The Hegemonic Political Ecology Of Aquatic Ecological Networks, Feb 12, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.


Managing Lead In Drinking Water At Schools And Early Childhood Education Facilities, Horsley Witten Group, Inc. And Commissioned By The, W.K. Kellogg Foundation Feb 2016

Managing Lead In Drinking Water At Schools And Early Childhood Education Facilities, Horsley Witten Group, Inc. And Commissioned By The, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Mickey Leland Center Information Portal

This report on managing lead in drinking water at schools and early childhood education facilities is an important tool for educators and community leaders to limit children’s exposure to lead. It’s intended to help people learn about the harmful effects of lead and how to test, detect and reduce waterborne lead levels.


The Conflicts Of Coexistence: Contested Meanings Of Carnivore Management And Conservation In The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Hannah F. Jaicks Feb 2016

The Conflicts Of Coexistence: Contested Meanings Of Carnivore Management And Conservation In The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Hannah F. Jaicks

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) encompasses urbanizing areas adjacent to essential conservation habitat with an inimitable capacity to support carnivore populations, including grizzly bears, wolves, and cougars. This geography has resulted in divisive social conflicts about these animals’ management as well as physical conflicts when they come into contact with people over the course of daily life in the region. Employing a qualitative methodology with semi-structured interviews, participant observation, wilderness treks, and archival work, this study examines the context, social processes, and decision-making processes that underlie the predator conflicts and produce management challenges in the GYE. This approach integrates theory …


Ceasing To Run Underground: 20th-Century Women Writers And Hydro-Logical Thought, Annie M. Cranstoun Feb 2016

Ceasing To Run Underground: 20th-Century Women Writers And Hydro-Logical Thought, Annie M. Cranstoun

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Starting from two central ecopoetic convictions—the constitutive role of environment in human experience (and vice versa), and text’s ability to connect with the world—this dissertation then moves in a different direction from most ecocritical projects. Instead of looking at the ways literary representation flows back into nature in the forms of attitude, praxis, and policy, this study focuses on the earlier part of the loop: the emergence of text from environment, particularly its aquatic parts, via the faculty of the imagination. In its scrutiny of images that spring directly from matter and its faith in the concept of a personal …


From Patient Rights To Health Justice: Securing The Public's Interest In Affordable, High-Quality Health Care, Lindsay F. Wiley Feb 2016

From Patient Rights To Health Justice: Securing The Public's Interest In Affordable, High-Quality Health Care, Lindsay F. Wiley

Cardozo Law Review

Models emphasizing professional autonomy, patient rights, market power, and health consumerism are no longer adequate to address the increasingly social, collective nature of health law institutions, instruments, and norms. What is needed is a new model that expressly recognizes the public - alongside the patient, the provider, and the payer - as an important stakeholder and active participant in decisions about medical treatment, health care coverage, and allocation of scarce resources. In a previous article, the author looked to the environmental justice, reproductive justice, and food justice movements for inspiration in developing a "health justice" approach to eliminating social disparities …


Cultivating Community: Political Identity And Civic Agriculture Among Small-Scale Organic Farmers In North Central New Mexico, Rose Elizabeth Rohrer Feb 2016

Cultivating Community: Political Identity And Civic Agriculture Among Small-Scale Organic Farmers In North Central New Mexico, Rose Elizabeth Rohrer

Sociology ETDs

Little work has been done exploring the sociological experiences of individuals working in organic agriculture, a type of farming primarily characterized by rigorous restrictions on chemical inputs. Unlike the massive corporate farms that have become commonplace in much of the United States, farms in North Central New Mexico tend to be small and diverse, with a political focus on community-building. In this study, thirty in-depth interviews of ten producers/owners and twenty farmworkers on organic farms in the region were conducted over the course of the 2014 growing season. I use the interview data to examine how small-scale farm work and …


Population Dynamics And Vulnerability Reduction: The Role Of Non-Profit Organizations Following The 2011 Earthquake In Christchurch, New Zealand, Nicole Suzanne Hutton Feb 2016

Population Dynamics And Vulnerability Reduction: The Role Of Non-Profit Organizations Following The 2011 Earthquake In Christchurch, New Zealand, Nicole Suzanne Hutton

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

With the adoption of neo-liberal policies and the decline in social welfare, non-profit organizations have been increasingly integrated into public service provision. Such changes raise questions regarding formal policies and access for marginalized populations, no more so than in disaster settings as formal disaster management of sexual health services are still vague. This study identifies the role of non-profit organizations in providing public health and social services through the lens of sexual health commitments following the September 2010 Darfield Earthquake and subsequent major aftershock during February 2011 in Christchurch, New Zealand. The primary goals of this study were three fold, …


The University Of San Francisco Fact Book And Almanac 2016, Alan Ziajka Jan 2016

The University Of San Francisco Fact Book And Almanac 2016, Alan Ziajka

USF Fact Book and Almanac

No abstract provided.


Reviving The Environmental Justice Agenda, Rachael E. Salcido Jan 2016

Reviving The Environmental Justice Agenda, Rachael E. Salcido

Chicago-Kent Law Review

During his 2008 campaign, President Obama pledged that his administration would put an emphasis on environmental justice, outlining a strategy to address the unequal burden of pollution in low-income, minority and indigenous communities. Though many criticize some of the shortcomings, such as inadequate pursuit of civil rights remedies, the administration has followed through to supply some of the most critical components of solutions to the environmental justice challenge: leadership, capacity, collaboration-in-fact, and funding. This article will examine the reinvigorated Inter-Agency Working Group on Environmental Justice, the roadmaps prepared to address EJ, and significant rules and guidance enacted by the EPA …


Congressional Dysfunction And Executive Lawmaking During The Obama Administration, Raquel Aldana Jan 2016

Congressional Dysfunction And Executive Lawmaking During The Obama Administration, Raquel Aldana

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.


Presidential Legitimacy Through The Anti-Discrimination Lens, Catherine Y. Kim Jan 2016

Presidential Legitimacy Through The Anti-Discrimination Lens, Catherine Y. Kim

Chicago-Kent Law Review

The Obama administration’s deferred action programs granting temporary relief from deportation to undocumented immigrants have focused attention to questions regarding the legitimacy of presidential lawmaking. Immigration, though, is not the only context in which the president has exercised policymaking authority. This essay examines parallel instances of executive lawmaking in the anti-discrimination area. Presidential policies relating to workplace discrimination, environmental justice, and affirmative action share some of the key features troubling critics of deferred action yet have been spared from serious constitutional challenge. These examples underscore the unique challenges to assessing the validity of actions targeting traditionally disenfranchised groups—be they noncitizens, …


Table Of Contents, Chicago-Kent Law Review Jan 2016

Table Of Contents, Chicago-Kent Law Review

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Injustice Of Sea Level Rise: Ethics And Evidence, Lies And Liability--Event Poster, Professor Keith Rizzardi Jan 2016

The Injustice Of Sea Level Rise: Ethics And Evidence, Lies And Liability--Event Poster, Professor Keith Rizzardi

Lectures and Presentations

The Center for International Law & Justice (CILJ) and the Environment, Development & Justice Program (EDJP) present a lecture by Professor Keith Rizzardi. Professor Rizzardi, an experienced government lawyer and litigator, teaches at St. Thomas University School of Law.


The Injustice Of Sea Level Rise: Ethics And Evidence, Lies And Liability--Text Of Speech, Professor Keith Rizzardi Jan 2016

The Injustice Of Sea Level Rise: Ethics And Evidence, Lies And Liability--Text Of Speech, Professor Keith Rizzardi

Lectures and Presentations

The Center for International Law & Justice (CILJ) and the Environment, Development & Justice Program (EDJP) present the Second Annual Climate and Energy Justice Lecture by Professor Keith Rizzardi. Professor Rizzardi, an experienced government lawyer and litigator, teaches at St. Thomas University School of Law.


The Injustice Of Sea Level Rise: Ethics And Evidence, Lies And Liability--Slides And Data Presentation, Professor Keith Rizzardi Jan 2016

The Injustice Of Sea Level Rise: Ethics And Evidence, Lies And Liability--Slides And Data Presentation, Professor Keith Rizzardi

Lectures and Presentations

The Center for International Law & Justice (CILJ) and the Environment, Development & Justice Program (EDJP) present the Second Annual Climate and Energy Justice Lecture by Professor Keith Rizzardi. Professor Rizzardi, an experienced government lawyer and litigator, teaches at St. Thomas University School of Law.


The Murray Ledger And Times, January 27, 2016, The Murray Ledger An Times Jan 2016

The Murray Ledger And Times, January 27, 2016, The Murray Ledger An Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.


A Discussion With Epa's General Counsel Avi Garbow: Environmental Justice, Agency Priorities, And Employment, Avi S. Garbow, General Counsel Jan 2016

A Discussion With Epa's General Counsel Avi Garbow: Environmental Justice, Agency Priorities, And Employment, Avi S. Garbow, General Counsel

Environmental and Animal Law

The Center For International Law & Justice and Environmental Law Society present a discussion with Avi S. Garbow who, during his tenure as EPA General Counsel, has worked closely on the Clean Power Plan, Clean Water Rule and other initiatives.


Changing Terrain Of Environmental Citizenship In India's Forests, Arpitha Kodiveri Jan 2016

Changing Terrain Of Environmental Citizenship In India's Forests, Arpitha Kodiveri

Socio-Legal Review

The paper traces the concept of environmental citizenship in India’s forests through the existing legal framework which is influenced by the movement for forest rights. I argue that the notion of environmental citizenship is contested given the presence of multiple actors and interests over natural resources in our forests. This contestation I present is heightened by the emerging idea of corporate citizenship where corporations assume the role of arbiters of citizenship rights in the absence of the state. It is within this frame of environmental citizenship and its inter-relationship with corporate citizenship that I analyze the changes proposed by the …


The Bunk House Rules: A Materialist Approach To Legal Consciousness In The Context Of Migrant Workers’ Housing In Ontario, Adrian Smith Jan 2016

The Bunk House Rules: A Materialist Approach To Legal Consciousness In The Context Of Migrant Workers’ Housing In Ontario, Adrian Smith

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

In this article, I tackle the controversy surrounding an application to convert an abandoned school into housing for migrant agricultural workers in Ontario. I examine 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. Viewed through a legal consciousness analytical lens that has been reconstituted to attend to the material practices and contexts underpinning residents’ responses (a materialist approach to legal consciousness), the submissions intervene in the organization and regulation of agricultural labour. While rehearsing well-worn, racist colonial tropes, these responses (re)produce material …


Governing Water Quality In California’S Central Coast: The Case Of The Conditional Agricultural Waiver, Ann Drevno Jan 2016

Governing Water Quality In California’S Central Coast: The Case Of The Conditional Agricultural Waiver, Ann Drevno

Staff Works

No abstract provided.


The Responsibility Of Transnational Corporations In The Realization Of Children’S Rights, Isabel Mota Borges Jan 2016

The Responsibility Of Transnational Corporations In The Realization Of Children’S Rights, Isabel Mota Borges

University of Baltimore Journal of International Law

Transnational Corporations (TNCs), especially those operating in developing countries, have enormous socio-economic power— sometimes more than states. Many TNCs seek poor and unregulated markets, employing cheap, underage and fragile children, so they can create an economic competitive advantage and meet increasing international marketing demands. While many of them bring business and prosperity to a region, the damages can outweigh these benefits they perpetuate when behaving irresponsibly - occasionally irreparably - detrimentally impacting on children’s enjoyment of civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights. The problem is exacerbated when national governments are unable or unwilling to regulate TNCs’ operations. It shall …


The Dark Pastoral: Goethe And Atwood, Heather I. Sullivan Jan 2016

The Dark Pastoral: Goethe And Atwood, Heather I. Sullivan

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

The Anthropocene challenges the humanities to find means of representing and analysing our fossil-fueled practices that have spread industrial particulates over the entire globe, changed the climate, and reshaped landscapes into a “new nature.” In this essay, I propose the “dark pastoral” as an analytical trope, examining two framing texts from the Anthropocene: Goethe’s landmark 1797 pastoral German epic, Hermann and Dorothea, and Margaret Atwood’s 2003 postapocalyptic novel Oryx and Crake, the first installment of her MaddAddam trilogy which ends with a surprisingly pastoral flourish. At the early phases of the Anthropocene (as it is defined by Paul …


The “Natures” Of Protected Areas – Environmental Management And Its Impacts On Local Residents In China And Taiwan, Leah Nugent Jan 2016

The “Natures” Of Protected Areas – Environmental Management And Its Impacts On Local Residents In China And Taiwan, Leah Nugent

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.