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The Effects Of External Stakeholder Pressure On Csr Disclosure: Evidence From Indonesia, Anisa Ramadhini Trianaputri, Desi Adhariani, Chaerul D. Djakman

DLSU Business & Economics Review

This study examines the effect of external stakeholder pressure on the extent of social and environmental disclosure or corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure. Several studies have examined the impact of internal stakeholder pressure (e.g., ownership or board of directors’ structure) and corporate characteristics on CSR disclosure, but there has been little attention focused on the role of external stakeholders. Therefore, this research seeks to examine the influence on the extent of CSR disclosure by four external stakeholder groups: customer, creditor, auditor, and media. A total of 327 annual reports produced by 109 manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange …

Not Yet America's Best Idea: Law, Inequality, And Grand Canyon National Park, Sarah Krakoff

Publications

Even the nation’s most cherished and protected public lands are not spaces apart from the workings of law, politics, and power. This Essay explores that premise in the context of Grand Canyon National Park. On the occasion of the Park’s 100th Anniversary, it examines how law — embedded in a political economy committed to rapid growth and development in the southwestern United States — facilitated the violent displacement of indigenous peoples and entrenched racialized inequalities in the surrounding region. It also explores law’s shortcomings in the context of sexual harassment and discrimination within the Park. The Essay concludes by suggesting …

Race, Space, And Surveillance: A Response To #Livingwhileblack: Blackness As Nuisance, Lolita Buckner Inniss

Publications

This article is an invited response to an American University Law Review article titled “#LivingWhileBlack: Blackness as Nuisance” that has been widely discussed in the news media and in academic circles.

The Morning Meeting: Fostering A Participatory Democracy Begins With Youth In Public Education, Rebecca C. Tilhou

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

There is a faltering sense of democracy in America's current political climate due to polarized opinions about leadership's decisions and antagonistic political parties. John Dewey (1916) proposed that education is the place to foster democracy, as schools can provide a platform to actively engage students in authentic democratic experiences that will empower them to act democratically beyond the walls of the school. The democratic schools that emerged during the Free School Movement of the 1960s and 1970s embody Dewey's philosophy, specifically with the shared governance occurring in their School Meetings. Unfortunately, American public education's present preoccupation with standardization, proficiency scores, …

Pursuing Procedural Justice In Sustainability Policy: Assessing The Linkage Between Political Culture And Municipal Efforts, Meng Yuan

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

How does the political culture of local governments influence the type and extent of procedural justice in sustainability policy processes? Answering this question is important because political culture is potentially a significant influence on local governments that could be better conceptualized and theorized and because public participation in sustainability policy processes is central to the demands of procedural justice in environmental justice (EJ) movements. This dissertation seeks to bring a new conception and new measures of political culture to the study of policy making by local governments as well as to contribute to developing the conceptualization and measurement of public …

“Thus In The Beginning All The World Was America”: The Effects Of Anti-Protest Legislation And An American Conquest Culture In Native Sacred Sites Cases, Elizabeth Hampton

American Indian Law Review

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Situating Asian American Environmental (In)Justices Through Radical History Walking Tours, Yuxin Zhou

Pomona Senior Theses

By analyzing two radical history walking tours in Seattle, WA, and Berkeley, CA, this thesis aims to examine how Asian American communities can find their places in the U.S. environmental movement. I argue that these walking tours provide generative pedagogical tools to engage the general public to unpack the complex Asian American history embedded within urban spaces. I also articulate how these walking tours have the capacity to situate environmental struggles and activism within urban spaces, illustrating that various Asian American social and political activism has always been addressing environmental concerns. Furthermore, I argue that these walking tours of Asian …

Maternal Discrimination Stress And Negative Birth Outcomes Among Black Women, Quantrilla Y. Ard

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Black women are more than twice as likely as White women to experience losing their infants in the first year of life. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine relationships between maternal discriminatory stress and negative birth outcomes such as preterm delivery, low birth weight, very low birth weight, and infant death among Black women with varying levels of education. This study was grounded in critical race theory and Black feminist theory, positing that Black women are the sum of intersecting identities that shape their world view. A sample of 107 Black women were recruited by convenience and …

Doing What We Know, Knowing What To Do: Californians Linking Action With Science For Prevention Of Breast Cancer (Clasp-Bc), Jon F Kerner, Marion H E Kavanaugh-Lynch, Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, Christopher Politis, Aviva Prager, Ross C Brownson

Open Access Publications

Given the lack of progress in breast cancer prevention, the California Breast Cancer Research Program (CBCRP) plans to apply current scientific knowledge about breast cancer to primary prevention at the population level. This paper describes the first phase of Californians Linking Action with Science for Prevention of Breast Cancer (CLASP-BC). The foci of Phase 1 are building coalitions and coalition capacity building through community engagement in community-based participatory research (CBPR) and dissemination and implementation (D&I) research training. Based on the successful implementation and evaluation of Phase 1, the foci of Phase 2 (presented separately in this special issue) will be …

What Is The Status Of The Lee’S Lane Landfill Superfund Site?, Jordan Lynch, Stacey Konkle, Jamar Wheeler, Katlyn Mcgraw, Lauren Heberle

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

The Lee’s Lane Landfill is located in western Louisville, KY along the Ohio River (Fig. 1) [1]. The site was used as a quarry in the 1940s before being repurposed as a landfill from 1948 to 1975 (Fig. 2). At least 212,400 tons of municipal and industrial waste were disposed of in the landfill during this period. In 1980, the Kentucky Department of Hazardous Materials and Waste Management discovered approximately 400 drums of hazardous waste within the landfill; these drums were removed by the landfill owners in the fall of 1981, but the remaining drums of non-hazardous material, as well …

Analyzing Spinach Growth Using Vertical Garden Techniques And Local Water Sources For Urban Gardens, Julia Ashlyn Manzella

All ETDs from UAB

The University of Alabama at Birmingham undergraduate and graduate programs’ continued involvement in the Birmingham-Jefferson County community have identified food insecure areas, known as food deserts, and associated health issues negatively impacting the community due to poor diets and lack of access to healthy foods. Farm stands and community gardens around the Birmingham-metropolitan area have increased healthy food availability during the past several years to encourage healthier eating habits. To combat food insecurity, sustainable alternative growing techniques for urban agriculture need to be implemented and incorporated into local community gardens. Alternative gardening techniques such as vertical gardens maximize yield in …

Theoretical Perspectives Of The Baltimore Ecosystem Study: Conceptual Evolution In A Social–Ecological Research Project, Steward T. A . Pickett, Mary L. Cadenasso, Matthew E. Baker, Lawrence E. Band, Christopher G. Boone, Geoffrey L. Buckley, Peter M. Groffman, J. Morgan Grove, Elena G. Irwin, Sujay S. Kaushal, Shannon L. Ladeau, Charles H. Nilon, Michele Romolini, Emma J. Rosi, Christopher M. Swan, Katalin Szlavecz

Advanced Science Research Center

The Earth's population will become more than 80% urban during this century. This threshold is often regarded as sufficient justification for pursuing urban ecology. However, pursuit has primarily focused on building empirical richness, and urban ecology theory is rarely discussed. The Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) has been grounded in theory since its inception and its two decades of data collection have stimulated progress toward comprehensive urban theory. Emerging urban ecology theory integrates biology, physical sciences, social sciences, and urban design, probes interdisciplinary frontiers while being founded on textbook disciplinary theories, and accommodates surprising empirical results. Theoretical growth in urban ecology …

Planty For The People: A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach To Healthy, Plant-Based Food Access In The Border Region, Marina Villegas

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Access to food is an issue for many across the U.S., especially in low-income and high minority areas (Gallinar, et al., 2017). The border region of El Paso, Texas has several designated areas without access to supermarkets where residents may purchase food within a walking or short driving distance (HFAC, 2010). Researchers have linked food insecurity to nutritionally inadequate diets, which are shown to lead to obesity or other disorders like heart disease, diabetes, etc. (Marks, 2015; Craig and Mangels, 2009; Bartolotto, 2013). Food insecurity leads to an array of issues down the line that negatively affects not only health …

Associations Of Traffic Related Air Pollution With Physical Activity And Cardiorespiratory Health Outcomes In At-Risk Populations From El Paso, Texas, Juan Aguilera

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Exposure to air pollution from traffic-related emissions is a considerable preventable cause of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. However, the impacts on at-risk populations, such as children with asthma and low-income residents, are yet to be fully understood in the border city of El Paso, TX. This dissertation focused on the most common traffic-related pollutants which include particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and ozone (O3). The research described in this work provides an overview of air pollution measurements and shares insights from three different studies in our region.

People with asthma are more likely adversely affected by traffic …

Human Dimensions Research For Informed Decisions About Aquatic Restoration In New Hampshire: Environmental Justice In Implementation Of Compensatory Mitigation, Simone Tania Chapman

Master's Theses and Capstones

New Hampshire’s aquatic resources provide many important ecosystem services and values, such as recreation, wildlife habitat, flood storage, nutrient reduction, community identity and aesthetic enjoyment. However, the many competing interests that seek to benefit from New Hampshire’s aquatic resources present challenges for efforts to steward public aquatic resources in the public interest. This thesis presents findings about the environmental justice outcomes of New Hampshire’s compensatory mitigation program, the Aquatic Resource Mitigation (ARM) fund, to inform aquatic restoration policy.

Previous studies have found evidence that aquatic restoration programs can lead to systemic resource relocation and patterns of inequality in outcomes. Using …

Flooding And Industrial Swine Farming In North Carolina: Implications Of Natech Hazards On The Assessment Of Environmental Justice, Jacob Ramthun

Theses and Dissertations

“Natech” events, in which natural hazards trigger anthropogenic hazards, are becoming increasingly common. Methodologies for measuring the impact of natech events on environmental justice assessments are lacking, particularly in rural scenarios. This study used additive, multiplicative, and z-score threshold methods of combining the density of industrial swine farms in eastern North Carolina and the presence of flood risk to determine whether or not natech risk exhibits emergent socioeconomic indicators and whether areas of high natech constitute environmental injustice. The multiplicative and z-score threshold methods generated variables representing natech risk to compare to socioeconomic indicators, as well as statistically significant hotspots. …

Assessing Environmental Impact Through Dpsir Framework And Environmental Justice Lenses:A Case Study Of Inland Capture Fisheries In Mahakam River, Etik Sulistiowati Ningsih

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Inland capture fisheries significantly contribute to the achievement of SDG, but most inland capture fisheries are poorly managed or not managed at all. Inland fishery is often facing against the big-scale industrial project. In the Middle Mahakam Area, two dominant natural resources exploited for the industrial project are palm oil and coal mining. Palm oil production, coal mining production, the human population was increasing in the last ten years, and on the opposite, the water quality index is decreasing. However, although many previous studies suggested that fish catches are declining, fisheries statistics show the opposite data. Government statistics show that …

Fishermen's Participation In Marine Litter Collection Schemes In Thailand, Phornphavit Thongphaijit

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Marine litter is a global environmental problem that poses various threats to the environment, the economy and society. Its impacts, for example, are the cost of beach cleaning, tourism, the beautiful landscape and etc. Marine litter, which later breaks into microplastics, affects marine lives contributing to the loss of economy to the people who depend on them. Several measures are used to tackle marine litter, including prevention and reduction of waste generation, prevention and reduction of litter reaching the marine environment, and marine litter removal. The latter is essential to clean already-at-sea litter or marine debris. Thailand, among the top …

การป้องกันปัญหาอาชญากรรมสิ่งแวดล้อม: กรณีศึกษาผลกระทบจากมลพิษทางอากาศในนิคมอุตสาหกรรมมาบตาพุด, กรณัฏฐ์ อัครธนบูลย์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาสภาพปัญหาและผลกระทบจากมลพิษทางอากาศ สาเหตุและปัจจัยที่ก่อให้เกิดปัญหามลพิษทางอากาศในมุมมองอาชญาวิทยาสิ่งแวดล้อม เพื่อเสนอแนวทางการป้องกันและแก้ไขปัญหาอาชญากรรมสิ่งแวดล้อม โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งปัญหามลพิษทางอากาศในนิคมอุตสาหกรรมมาบตาพุดอย่างมีประสิทธิภาพและยั่งยืน ผู้วิจัยได้ทำการวิจัยเอกสารและสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึกกลุ่มตัวอย่างแบบเฉพาะเจาะจง 6 กลุ่ม ได้แก่ ประชาชนในเขตเทศบาลเมืองมาบตาพุด ผู้นำและตัวแทนชุมชนรอบนิคมอุตสาหกรรมมาบตาพุด เจ้าหน้าที่หน่วยงานราชการและรัฐวิสาหกิจ นักวิชาการอิสระ องค์กรพัฒนาเอกชน (NGOs) และบุคลากรในกระบวนการยุติธรรมทางอาญา รวมทั้งสิ้นจำนวน 24 คน ผลการวิจัยพบว่า สภาพปัญหาและผลกระทบจากมลพิษทางอากาศส่งผลต่อ (1) สุขภาพของประชาชน โดยประชาชนยังคงมีความเสี่ยงต่อโรคทางเดินหายใจ โรคมะเร็ง และภาวะความผิดปกติต่างๆ อันเนื่องมาจากการสูดดมมลพิษทางอากาศเข้าไป และ (2) สิ่งแวดล้อม ซึ่งจากการตรวจวัดคุณภาพอากาศพบว่า ยังคงมีสารมลพิษถูกปล่อยออกมาจากโรงงานอุตสาหกรรมอย่างต่อเนื่อง และมีค่าสูงกว่าค่ามาตรฐานกำหนด โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งสารประกอบอินทรีย์ระเหยง่าย (VOCs) บางประเภท สาเหตุและปัจจัยที่ก่อให้เกิดปัญหามลพิษทางอากาศ เป็นผลมาจาก (1) การพัฒนาเศรษฐกิจที่ไม่สมดุลกับสิ่งแวดล้อมหรือระบบนิเวศ (2) การบริหารจัดการของภาครัฐและหน่วยงานที่เกี่ยวข้องไม่เป็นไปตามหลักธรรมาภิบาลสิ่งแวดล้อม (3) มาตรการและระบบตรวจวัดคุณภาพอากาศไม่สะท้อนข้อเท็จจริง และ (4) การบังคับใช้กฎหมายและการบังคับโทษไม่ชัดเจน โดยสาเหตุการกระทำผิดของผู้มีส่วนได้ส่วนเสียในมุมมองอาชญาวิทยาสิ่งแวดล้อม ได้แก่ (1) ภาครัฐ ดำเนินนโยบายทางเศรษฐกิจที่สร้างความเสียหายต่อสิ่งแวดล้อมและส่งผลต่อสุขภาพของประชาชนซึ่งเป็นทั้งเหยื่อทางตรงและทางอ้อม (2) ผู้ประกอบการหรือผู้ก่อมลพิษ ไม่รู้ตัวว่ากำลังก่ออาชญากรรมสิ่งแวดล้อมอยู่ หรือ จงใจกระทำผิดเนื่องจากเห็นว่าได้รับประโยชน์จากช่องโหว่ของกฎหมายมากกว่าได้รับโทษจากกฎหมาย (3) ผู้ได้รับผลกระทบ หรือ เหยื่อทางตรงที่เป็นมนุษย์ ได้รับความเสียหายจากการก่ออาชญากรรมสิ่งแวดล้อมทั้งในระยะสั้นและระยะยาว เนื่องจากการพิสูจน์หาตัวและจับกุมผู้กระทำผิดทำได้ยาก (4) ประชาชนทั่วไป หรือ เหยื่อทางอ้อมที่เป็นมนุษย์ ขาดความรู้ความเอาใจใส่ปัญหาสิ่งแวดล้อม เนื่องจากไม่ได้ตระหนักในสิทธิการดำรงชีวิตอยู่ในสิ่งแวดล้อมที่ดี แนวทางป้องกันและแก้ไขปัญหามลพิษทางอากาศ พบว่า ภาครัฐควรให้ความสำคัญกับการควรปรับปรุงและบูรณาการกฎหมายสิ่งแวดล้อมให้มีการบังคับใช้และบทลงโทษที่ชัดเจนควบคู่กับการส่งเสริมให้โรงงานอุตสาหกรรมตระหนักถึงการดูแลและใส่ใจสิ่งแวดล้อม ซึ่งสามารถจำแนกเป็นรูปธรรมได้โดย (1) ประสานความร่วมมือกันระหว่างหน่วยงานภาครัฐ ภาคเอกชน และภาคประชาชนในการจัดการกับปัญหามลพิษทางอากาศในนิคมอุตสาหกรรมมาบตาพุดอย่างจริงจัง (2) ใช้หลักทางวิศวกรรมในการแก้ไขปัญหามลพิษทางอากาศควบคู่กับการควบคุมมาตรฐานในการปล่อยทิ้งอากาศเสีย (3) มีระบบบริหารจัดการแนวทางการแก้ไขปัญหามลพิษทางอากาศทั้งในระยะสั้นและระยะยาว

ทาสกลางทะเล: บทบาทของรัฐและนายทุนกับการขูดรีดแรงงานบนเรือประมงสัญชาติไต้หวัน, มาริสา สกุลชัย

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ไต้หวันเป็นหนึ่งในหลายประเทศที่พบปัญหาการค้าทาสกลางทะเล แรงงานจำนวนมากถูกกดขี่ และละเมิดสิทธิภายใต้ห่วงโซ่การผลิตของอุตสาหกรรมประมง ตั้งแต่กระบวนการจ้างงาน กลไกการผลิตจนได้สินค้าออกสู่ตลาด แม้ว่าภายหลังการปลดใบเหลืองจากสหภาพยุโรปปี 2016 เป็นต้นมา ไต้หวันจะมีการปฏิรูปกฎระเบียบเพื่อจัดการกับปัญหาการใช้แรงงานบังคับ แต่ผลปรากฏว่าในปัจจุบันยังคงพบปัญหาการละเมิดสิทธิและขูดรีดแรงงานประมง สารนิพนธ์ฉบับนี้จึงมุ่งศึกษารูปแบบการใช้แรงงานบังคับบนเรือประมงสัญชาติไต้หวัน และการดำเนินนโยบายรัฐที่ส่งผลต่อนายทุนและแรงงานประมงสมัยรัฐบาลไช่ อิงเหวินระหว่างปี ค.ศ.2016 – 2021 โดยใช้กรอบแนวคิดรัฐเสรีนิยมใหม่เพื่ออธิบายพฤติกรรมของรัฐในกระบวนการกดขี่แรงงานภายใต้ห่วงโซ่อุปทานโลกและใช้แนวคิดเรื่อง “ระยะทาง” มาอธิบายในมิติการเคลื่อนย้ายภายในห่วงโซ่การผลิต จากการศึกษาพบว่า รัฐมีบทบาทสำคัญต่อการเกิดปัญหาการขูดรีดแรงงานประมงต่างชาติบนเรือประมงสัญชาติไต้หวัน ซึ่งมีส่วนช่วยในการอำนวยความสะดวกแก่กลุ่มทุนภายในห่วงโซ่การผลิตของอุตสาหกรรมประมงซึ่งอยู่ในพื้นที่ยกเว้นจากรัฐในการตรวจสอบและปราศจากกฎหมายควบคุม โดยใช้ช่องว่างด้านระยะทางทั้งในด้านเชิงกายภาพ เชิงความรู้ และเชิงกฎหมาย ในการละเมิดและกดขี่แรงงานประมงข้ามชาติเพื่อตอบสนองต่อผลประโยชน์รัฐซึ่งเกี่ยวข้องกับกลุ่มทุน

Policy Engagements For A Just Decarbonisation: China's 2060 Carbon Neutrality Pledge's Ramifications On The Coal Industry Workforce In Shanxi, Lucile Charriaut

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

To achieve its ambitious carbon neutrality pledge by 2060, China, whose energy mix is still largely dominated by coal, must progressively phase out coal-fired power plants. Being highly polluting, coal is no longer perceived as suitable to promote a sustainable, clean, and long-standing economy. Shanxi, a landlocked northern province, is considered one of China's most coal-dependent provinces and accounts for a colossal coal workforce depending on the industry. Such a transition will, therefore, considerably alter the economic prospects and labour relations of this province. Considering the inevitability to lay off coal workers, the objective of this thesis is to determine …

Planning Urban Forests In A Changing Climate, Ethan Dudden

Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses

As the effects of negative effects of climate change are realized, urban forests a means to reduce the potential damage and adverse conditions in urban areas (Wolf, et al., 2020) (Livesley, McPherson, & Calfapietra, 2016) (Xiao & McPherson, 2002). Preserving these resources is becoming more difficult however, as the trees that make up urban landscapes become less adapted to current conditions with every passing year (Aitken, Yeaman, Holliday, Wang, & Sierra, 2008). Changes in climate and world systems also point to invasive pests becoming greater threats to urban forest resources with time (Tubby & Webber, 2010) (Amberger et al., 2017). …

Changing Seasons Of Resistance: Impacts Of Settler Colonialism And Climate Change In Indigenous Worlds, Elizabeth Jackson

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

This paper looks at the relationship between neoliberal capitalism, genocide, the biopolitics of settler colonialism and the impacts of climate change on the cultures and traditional lifeways of Indigenous communities. It also explores Indigenous modes and methods of adaptation and resilience. Climate Change is almost certainly the most urgent social problem in the history of human life on planet Earth. Many Indigenous people are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change due to marginalization and their commitment to land-based practices. Using in depth interviews with Indigenous Peoples, primarily from the Pacific Northwest, and the analysis of existing literature, this …

Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The Mountains: Hip-Hop, Exclusion, And The White Wilderness, Leonard Alexander Henderson

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

The expectations of normative behavior in outdoor recreation are often taken for granted and naturalized within dominant cultural narratives about human/nature interactions. In particular, expectations of silence and an absence of evidence of humans and human sounds (anthrophony), are grounded within an understanding of nature and a wilderness/urban paradigm framed by whiteness. Hip-Hop provides an interesting point of analysis for thinking about the binary opposition of wilderness and urbanness. The intersection of Hip-Hop and wilderness is also the starting point for my research. This research aims to speak to just a few ways that white and masculine social norms in …

Ailing In Place: Environmental Inequities And Health Disparities In Appalachia, Michele Morrone

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

In Ailing in Place, Michele Morrone explores the relationship between environmental conditions in Appalachia and health outcomes that are too often ascribed to individual choices only. She applies quantitative data to observations from environmental health professionals to frame the ways in which the environment, as a social determinant of health, leads to health disparities in Appalachian communities. These examples—these stories of place—trace the impacts of water quality, waste disposal, and natural resource extraction on the health and quality of life of Appalachian people.

Public health is inextricably linked to place. Environmental conditions such as contaminated water, unsafe food, and polluted …

Arising: Hurricane (Superstorm) Sandy’S Impact On Design/Planning Professionals, Maxinne R. Leighton

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

Standing by my bedroom window, looking out at the ocean, a huge wave comes and swallows up my building. Everything around me is gone, including me. I wake up. I am 13 years old and living in the Coney Island Houses on Surf Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. With ongoing anthropogenic changes to the natural environment such as sea level rise and intensifying storms, coastal communities, especially ones segregated by class and culture, are particularly vulnerable in this context that challenges a way of life, and in some instances, threatens that life's survival. This dissertation focuses specifically on what one massive …

A Pedagogy Of Hope: Levers Of Change In Transformative Place-Based Learning Systems, Michelle G. Heaton

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

In response to mounting wicked environmental problems and an outdated U.S. educational system, this dissertation investigates transformative place-based education as an adaptive boundary system that connects individual learning to positive social-ecological change. The research approaches learning through a systems lens through a novel framework of Social-ecological Systems, Place-based Education, and Transformative Learning Theories. A three-part mixed methods approach, including content analysis of the literature, phenomenological interviews with experts in place-based education, and fuzzy-logic cognitive mapping with educators at three schools practicing the principles of place-based education, is used to examine transformative place-based education from the perspectives of current U.S. place-based …

How Is Energy Justice Built Into Community Choice Aggregation? A Comparative Case Study Of The Lowell Community Choice Power Supply Program And Cape Light Compact, Massachusetts, Felicity Monk

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

Community Choice Aggregation represents a potential opportunity to meet climate change mitigation aims through bulk buying renewable energy, but there remain challenges to deliver energy justice for low income communities. This thesis researched how two CCA programs - the Lowell Community Choice Power Supply Program and the Cape Light Compact - are building energy justice into their mission and activities. Archival research was conducted and eleven in-person interviews took place with experts, advocates and practitioners across the two CCA programs. Questions centered around five energy justice themes - community control, community ownership, local green jobs, low income assistance, and the …

Building A Law-And-Political-Economy Framework: Beyond The Twentieth-Century Synthesis, Jedediah Britton-Purdy

Faculty Scholarship

We live in a time of interrelated crises. Economic inequality and precarity, and crises of democracy, climate change, and more raise significant challenges for legal scholarship and thought. “Neoliberal” premises undergird many fields of law and have helped authorize policies and practices that reaffirm the inequities of the current era. In particular, market efficiency, neutrality, and formal equality have rendered key kinds of power invisible, and generated a skepticism of democratic politics. The result of these presumptions is what we call the “Twentieth-Century Synthesis”: a pervasive view of law that encases “the market” from claims of justice and conceals it …

Examining Spatial Inequities In Green Space Distribution And Access Around The Historic City Of Savannah, Georgia., Chiamaka F. Chimah

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Green space supports recreational activities and environmental sustainability which has proven to aid physical and social well-being as well as environmental health. However, spatial inequities are observed in the distribution and accessibility of urban green space. This norm identified as an environmental justice issue has left racial minorities and people of low socioeconomic status at a disadvantage. This study adopted a geospatial approach to assess green space quantity, quality, and accessibility, and generate a green space index. This research assessed the relationship between racial structure, socioeconomic characteristics and green space inequities in all municipalities in Chatham County, Georgia with a …