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Climate-Change Fiction And Poverty Studies: Kingsolver’S Flight Behavior, Diaz’S “Monstro,” And Bacigalupi’S “The Tamarisk Hunter”, Debra J. Rosenthal

2019 Faculty Bibliography

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Containing The Jeremiad: Understanding Paradigms Of Anxiety In Global Climate Change Experience, Brian Glaser

English Faculty Articles and Research

This essay uses Bion’s concept of “containing” to read the psychological dynamics of jeremiads about global climate change, arguing that their structure reveals a strategy of communication that may be useful for more broadly raising awareness about this challenging state of the planet. More specifically, I argue that contemporary global climate change jeremiads have a structure that first elicits alarm and then moves to discuss solutions, and that this structure may be beneficial to those who are awakening to the reality of global climate change by rendering anxiety bearable and therefore open to purposive and creative response.

Social Equity In Transit Service: Toward Social And Environmental Justice In Transportation, Torrey Lyons

TREC Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation explores social equity as it applies to public transportation. Transit has long been considered a tool to alleviate inequity by limiting the effects of spatial mismatch and providing access to opportunity to disadvantaged populations. This theory, however, has not been adequately proven empirically. The first chapter of this dissertation tests the theory that spatial mismatch is moderated by quality transit service. We do this by taking a cross section of the largest urban areas in the United States and applying structural equation modeling to identify relationships between exogenous and endogenous factors. We find that higher quality transit service …

Promoting Environmental Justice Research And Practice For Social Workers In A Rural State: Methodology And Findings Of A Pilot Qualitative Study, Monika Leininger, Kirsten Havig

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

Environmental justice work is an emerging field of practice that recognizes the interrelationship between social, economic, racial, gender, and environmental injustice and the impact social workers can have for policy and practice. Despite inclusion of environmental justice knowledge and practice as critical elements of ethical social work, little research exists on the topic in the professional knowledge base. Additionally, little research exists to date that specifically examines environmental justice knowledge and practice in a rural area. This pilot study examines awareness and knowledge of environmental justice issues and practice amongst licensed social workers in a rural western state using focus …

Contemporary Mental Health Care In Rural Areas: Challenges And Strategies, Whitney Cassity-Caywood

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

Mental health care and illness prevention present distinct challenges in rural areas with limited resources. This paper examines rural-specific mental health care concerns and uses a public health prevention model to discuss the most current and prolific strategies to address these issues. The unique role of the social work profession in implementing these strategies is highlighted.

Thirsty For Justice: The Fight For Safe Drinking Water, Debi Ores

UC Law Environmental Journal

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The Disproportionate Burden Of Asthma By Race, Sex, Income And Education, Lisa Elizabeth Stack

Wayne State University Dissertations

This paper seeks to understand the relationship of county level median air quality with adult asthma risk, and the disproportional adult asthma risk by sex, race, income and education, controlling for individual and county effects. The specific objectives of this work are to answer the following questions: 1) What is the difference exposure of the median AQI by race, controlling for county and individual effects? 2) What is the difference in exposure of the median AQI by sex, controlling for county and individual effects? 3) What is the difference in exposure of the median AQI by education, controlling for county …

Sustainability Literacy In French Literature And Film: From Solitary Reveries To Treks Across Deserts, Annette Sampon-Nicolas

French Faculty Scholarship

This essay explores the imperative to embrace a new model of education that will engage students in learning about the interconnectedness of our multi species world, sustainability, and global solidarity -- the belief "that unity of humankind can be established on the basis of some basic or core human values" (Korab-Karpowicz 305). Foreign language courses -- in particular advanced-level offerings that address literacy, critical thinking, and cultural comparisons -- are ideal settings for educating for sustainability literacy. Such literacy is essential to our collective twenty-first-century global identity, but it requires transformative educational practices. As we design foreign language courses, we …

The United States First Climate Relocation: Recognition, Relocation, And Indigenous Rights At The Isle De Jean Charles, Adam Crepelle

Belmont Law Review

While this article focuses almost exclusively on the Isle de Jean Charles relocation, it hopes to be useful to other climate induced relocations. Section I begins with a discussion of the two major factors contributing to the disappearance of Louisiana’s coast, the blocking of the Mississippi River and the oil industry. In Section II, the article provides an overview of federal recognition, a short history of Louisiana’s coastal tribes, and how being denied federal recognition has impacted them. Section III compares federal Indian law with the rights of indigenous peoples under international law, along with a discussion of the numerous …

Justice And Public Health, Govind Persad

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

This chapter discusses how justice applies to public health. It begins by outlining three different metrics employed in discussions of justice: resources, capabilities, and welfare. It then discusses different accounts of justice in distribution, reviewing utilitarianism, egalitarianism, prioritarianism, and sufficientarianism, as well as desert-based theories, and applies these distributive approaches to public health examples. Next, it examines the interplay between distributive justice and individual rights, such as religious rights, property rights, and rights against discrimination, by discussing examples such as mandatory treatment and screening. The chapter also examines the nexus between public health and debates concerning whose interests matter to …

Air Quality And Asthma Hospitalization: Evidence Of Pm2.5 Concentrations In Pennsylvania Counties, Elham Erfanian, Alan R. Collins

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

According to the World Health Organization, 235 million people around the world currently suffer from asthma, which includes approximately 25 million in the United States. There is substantial epidemiological evidence indicating linkages between outdoor air pollution and asthma symptoms, more specifically between concentrations of particulate matter and asthma. Using county level data for 2001-2014, a spatial panel framework is imposed based upon prevailing wind patterns to investigate the direct and indirect impacts of PM2.5 concentration levels on asthma hospitalization in Pennsylvania. This model controls for population density, precipitation, smoking rate, and population demographic variables. Results show that PM2.5 concentrations as …

Front Matter

St. Thomas Law Review

Front Matter includes Masthead, advisors, Table of Contents, Preface by Keith Rizzardi, Congratulatory letter from The Vatican, and selected excerpts from The Second International Conference on Climate, Nature, and Society for St. Thomas Law Review Volume 32, Issue 1, Fall 2019.

“Altering The Earth To Fit Vera” Analyzing Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain Management, Iyanu O. Corniel

Theses & ETDs

While clothing is an integral part of our daily lives, it’s current mode of production pose a serious threat to the environment. Current fashion production practices, named fast fashion, has evolved in the past few decades and has brought with it some economic benefits but considerable environmental challenges. The need for sustainable fashion, otherwise known a slow fashion practices have arisen. Using a qualitative approach to study design, this research sought to identify best practices in the management of supply chains in the top four sustainable fashion brands. Primary and secondary source information regarding sustainable practices and economic performance was …

Fill The Earth And Subdue It: Evangelicals, Environmentalism, And Religious Divides, James Spencer Powell

Theses & ETDs

Christianity contains numerous ecotheologies that present humans as the epitome of creation, but also instruct them to care for the Earth. While Christian environmental organizations have flourished over the past few decades, studies have consistently linked belief in Christianity and Evangelicalism in particular to negative environmental ethics and lack of support for environmental regulation. Numerous explanations for Evangelical’s aversion to environmentalism have been explored and tested such as biblical literalism, religiosity, morality, eschatology, and political conservatism with different explanations ultimately resulting. This led me to explore what aspects of Christianity are responsible for these environmental ethics by studying the social …

Critiquing Environmental Rhetoric: An Exploration Of Ecocriticism And Its Value To Activism, Tristen Johns

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines the field of ecocriticism, tracing its conceptualization as a subgenre of literary critique and discussing its implications for the community of scholars and environmental activists. I explore commonly cited definitions of the field and examine ecocritics’ works. I also discuss the importance of the ecocritical approach and its value to the field of environmental study and activism. I advocate for the importance of the humanities to work in environmental studies, a perspective often missing in my experience from research related to the ecological crisis. Ecocritics do far more than contribute critiques of specific pieces of literature, but …

Food Justice, Or Just Foodies?: Cultivating Local Food In Segregated Spaces, Timothy Manning

Theses & ETDs

Farmers markets have grown more prevalent in recent years as different cities and communities use them to invigorate public spaces and provide healthy food. They are a manifestation of the alternative foods movement, a broad movement dedicating to changing the way that food is produced, distributed, and consumed. Increasingly, the alternative foods movement has become a site of food justice work, which is focused on bringing healthy food to communities that have historically not had access and creating socially sustainable forms of agriculture. This thesis examines two farmers markets in the city of Sarasota, Florida, which are geographically close but …

Pre-Existing Conditions: Christianity, Identity, Gender, And Bodily Autonomy, Alice Corinne Leavengood

Theses & ETDs

This art project is a culmination of research in Medieval and Gothic Christian culture, coupled with contemporary politics and social commentary on gender, identity, sexual freedom, and reproductive rights. Through an examination of the culture wars and development of the Religious Right and rise of anti-abortion propaganda, my thesis explores political iconography as a way to reaffirm personal freedom relating to gender, identity, and reproductive rights. Stained glass windows are simulated through screen printing on Plexiglass, a new technique of my own creation. Depicting narratives concerning the oppression of queer and female-bodied people and the need for the feminist and …

Ene 262-006: Introduction To Environmental Engineering, Brook Crossan

Civil and Environmental Engineering Syllabi

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Ene 262-002: Introduction To Environmental Engineering, Paul Schorr

Civil and Environmental Engineering Syllabi

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Sts 201-004: Understanding Technological Society, Pedro De La Torre Iii

Humanities Syllabi

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Ene 262-004: Introduction To Environmental Engineering, Brook Crossan

Civil and Environmental Engineering Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of Sociodemographic Factors And Presence Of Oil And Gas Waste Disposal Wells In Kansas, Katherine Rose Wolf

Public Health Theses

Background and objective: Kansas hosts the second-largest number of wells in the United States for the disposal of oil and gas waste (n = 13,396), which can contain chemicals toxic to human health. In this study we evaluate potential associations between oil and gas waste disposal well locations and sociodemographic characteristics in Kansas.

Methods: We obtained oil and gas production and disposal well data from the Kansas Geological Survey and sociodemographic data at the census block group level from the United States 2013–2017 American Community Survey. We used two-variable t-tests, logistic regression with and without thin plate spatial splines, and …

Authors' Biographies

Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

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Climate Change, The Paris Agreement, And Subsidiarity, 52 Uic J. Marshall L. Rev. 257 (2019), Paul Lewis, Giovanni Coinu

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Conservation Easements & Their Critics: Is Perpetuity Truly Forever…And Should It Be?, 52 Uic J. Marshall L. Rev 677 (2019), Richard Roddewig

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Indigenous Sustainability And Resilience To Climate Extremes: Traditional Knowledge And The Systems Of Survival, Rebecca Tsosie

Connecticut Law Review

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Environmental Change, Culverts, And The “Right Of Taking Fish” Under The Stevens Treaties, Fronda Woods

Connecticut Law Review

In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed without opinion a judgment that requires the State of Washington to replace hundreds of highway culverts that hinder fish passage. It was the result of a 40-year litigation strategy that tribal advocates pursued with the goal of establishing a treaty-based, broadly-applicable rule of law prohibiting fish habitat degradation. This Essay examines the history of treaty fishing rights litigation in the Pacific Northwest, federal policies that encouraged settlement and environmental alteration, and the culvert litigation and its aftermath. The Essay concludes that the culvert litigation did not establish a broad rule of law, and …

Natural Resources And The Making Of Modern Indian Law, Bethany Berger

Connecticut Law Review

The pipeline protests at Standing Rock continued a long tradition of Native people coming together to protect natural resource rights. Indeed, this Essay argues, natural resource disputes are responsible for core advances in Native peoples' rights in the twentieth century. Although there are many examples, I focus on four particularly influential disputes. First, in 1905, at the height of an aggressively assimilationist federal policy, United States v. Winans preserved and expanded principles of treaty rights and preemption of state law. Next, in the 1920s, Pueblo struggles over water catalyzed new federal Indian policies that turned away from assimilation and toward …

“Highest Responsibility And Trust”: The National Environmental Policy Act & The Dakota Access Pipeline, Maegan Faitsch

Connecticut Law Review

The main goal of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is to compel government agencies to look for and discover possible environmental issues before making decisions that could impact the environment. The statute goes on to require an intensive review process when an environmental issue arises. NEPA can temporarily stop federal projects when an agency has not followed proper procedure or adequately considered certain factors. This Note proposes that under NEPA, courts should consider how agency decisions impact tribal treaty rights. The obligation to consider treaty rights come both from the treaty rights themselves and from the federal government’s trust …

Tribal Treaty Rights: A Powerful Tool In Challenges To Energy Infrastructure, Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner

Connecticut Law Review

Energy infrastructure projects throughout the United States are proliferating at a rate unseen in generations. Demand for coal in Asia has resulted in the proposed construction of terminals in the Pacific Northwest to allow for coal to be shipped abroad. Technological advances leading to the efficient extraction of resources using “fracking” lead to increased demand for pipelines across the country. As the demand for energy infrastructure increases, so too does opposition to these projects. Because such projects necessarily crisscross the country encroaching on tribal lands, tribes often find themselves at the vanguard of efforts to halt or slow down such …