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Finding The “Heart” In The Green: Conducting A Bibliometric Analysis To Emphasize The Need For Connecting Emotions With Biophilic Urban Planning, Christopher Tirri, Hunter Swanson, Mahbubur Meenar

School of Earth & Environment Departmental Research

Although there is a robust body of literature exploring the relationship between biophilic urban planning (BUP) and public health and well-being, there is a dearth of scholarship on the emotional components of BUP. It is crucial to understand these sentiment-related elements, so planners can assign “human value” to green spaces as a strategy for emphasizing the need to thoughtfully implement and properly maintain them in urban environments. Furthermore, humans’ emotional experiences with green spaces may also reveal hidden or unexpected functions of those spaces. To confirm this lack of emphasis on emotions in BUP, we used Scopus to conduct a …

Lone Star Wars: Lngs, Communities, And Globalization Versus Local Resistance In The Laguna Madre Region Of Coastal South Texas, Terence Garrett, Arthur Sementelli

Political Science Faculty Publications

Purpose: to theoretically contextualize the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) issue using Bauman and Debord. More generally, this research provides a theoretical and qualitative context to understand the LNG issue in discussions of environmental management, globalization, and local government.

Design/methodology/approach: this article uses Boje’s narrative case study approach to analyze the politics around localized resistance movements to LNG production in the Rio Grande Valley. Specifically, the study examines data collected from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), personal interviews, and public declarations (newspapers, blogs, social media) to create an historiographical account of LNGs in the RGV to analyze the Laguna Madre …

The Intersectionality Of Socioeconomic Status, Socioeconomic Status, Air Pollution Exposure, And Negative Health Outcomes In Chicago, Tera Wilson

The Park Place Economist

In recent decades, there’s been growing awareness surrounding the environmental justice movement, in which historically marginalized groups are bringing attention to their unequal exposure to environmental hazards and unequal access to environmental benefits. This paper ties together environmental injustice and economic theories by drawing from the economic concept of negative externalities to explore the experience of a marginalized group in Chicago. The marginalized group and the environmental hazards they face as a result of consumptive externalities is those of a lower socioeconomic status facing exposure to poor air quality. Using geographic distributions, scatterplots, and OLS regressions, this paper found that …

2021-2022 Impact Series - Environmental Awareness Student Study Guide, Sabine Dantus

Impact Series Study Guides

Environmental Awareness Impact Series Study Guide: A guide to help you engage with environmental awareness

Humboldt Sea Level Rise Public Forum: Eureka Arcata Corridor Caip, Clancy De Smet

Presentations

This PowerPoint is from the first of a series of public forums to learn more about sea level rise planning and projects in our region. This first forum will feature the Caltrans District 1 Climate Change Adaptation branch chief Clancy De Smet, who will share the efforts regarding Highway 101 Corridor sea level rise adaptation planning, stakeholder engagement, and other highway segments vulnerable to sea level rise.

See presentation recording on the HSU OLLI website here: https://extended.humboldt.edu/event/humboldt-sea-level-rise-public-forum-caltrans-district-1

2021-2022 Impact Series - Environmental Awareness Teaching Guide & Resources, Sabine Dantus

Impact Series Study Guides

Environmental Awareness Impact Series Teaching Guide & Resources: Teaching guide to help engage in important conversations with students.

Sts 360-451: Ethics And The Environment, Adam See

Humanities Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Sts 360-453: Ethics And The Environment, Adam See

Humanities Syllabi

No abstract provided.

The Goose Picks: Race, Colonization, And Environment, Anita Girvan, Julien Defraeye, Alec Follett, David Huebert, Jordan Kinder, Rina Garcia Chua, Siobhan Angus

The Goose

Reading recommendations by The Goose team on race, colonization, and the environment.

Taking The Fiction Out Of Science Fiction: A Conversation About Indigenous Futurisms, Grace L. Dillon, Pedro Neves Marques

Indigenous Nations Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

In our conversation, Dillon talks about key concepts within Indigenous-led science fiction and offers a genealogy of the term “Indigenous Futurisms,” going back to authors like Gerald Vizenor and Diane Glancy; in doing this she provides a precious bibliography at a time when some of the most exciting science fiction writing today is coming from nonwhite authors. She considers stories with topics ranging from technology, environmental justice, and relations between human and other-than-human creatures, showing that thinking with science fiction offers a rich path to decolonize the notion of science itself, freeing up space for political imaginations beyond a one-world …

E-Race-Sures: Resistance, Community Building, And A Pause In The Environmental Humanities And Arts, Anita Girvan, Rina Garcia Chua

The Goose

Editorial introduction to The Goose Volume 19, Issue 1 (2021).

Enst 513.01: Natural Resource Conflict Resolution, Shawn Matthew Johnson

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Teaching For Transformation: Developing Agency And Solidarity Consciousness In A Critical-Transdisciplinary, Garden-Based Urban Environmental Studies Program, Pieranna Pieroni

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation focuses on “Community Roots,” an instantiation of urban, garden-based environmental education that employs a “critical-transdisciplinary” design framework and pedagogies. The “crit-trans” construct, articulated by the Urban Environmental Studies Research Coven (Strong et. al., 2016) is offered as both a generative approach to liberatory (environmental) pedagogies with applications across the curriculum and as a form of resistance to neoliberal logics shaping educational (and other) settings. After situating Community Roots in its socio-environmental, institutional, historical and theoretical contexts, a detailed description of the course’s instantiation of crit-trans pedagogy is offered. Additionally, reflections of 14 youth and adult participants are analyzed, …

Climate Change And The Ancestors: Rain, Gender And Politics In An African Water Catchment, Jessie Fredlund

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Uluguru, a small mountain range in eastern Tanzania and one of the rainiest places in East Africa, serves as the principal water catchment for Tanzania’s largest city, Dar es Salaam, and for commercial farms along the country’s central coast. Home to smallholder farmers who cultivate a variety of crops on mostly rain-fed farms, the catchment has been a site of struggle over water and nature since the nineteenth century. Today, climate change has rendered rainfall increasingly unpredictable, and a wave of “sustainable development” interventions has pressured farmers to change their practices and to engage in unpaid forms of ecological labor …

Afterlives Of Discovery: Speculative Geographies In The Colombian Political Landscape, Heidi A. Rhodes

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation considers how the temporal remains of the Age of Discovery and its doctrine persist in a racial-geographical ranking of human and non-human, terrestrial and planetary life and worth. Across this work, I interpret a series of historical moments and their objects of speculative geographic cultural production: a state mapping program, a painting, a biomedical project, a de-monumenting protest action. As repositories of codified belief and repertoires of Discovery’s political and affective modes of racialized domination, I read these materials from the Colombian archives of coloniality and liberalism to illuminate their implications for Colombia’s national becoming as a liberal …

Zoning And The Cost Of Housing: Evidence From Silicon Valley, Greater New Haven, And Greater Austin, Robert C. Ellickson

Cardozo Law Review

Municipal zoning, shockingly, may be the most consequential regulatory program in the United States. This Article develops metrics for measuring the extent to which a locality’s zoning practices are exclusionary, that is, limit construction of least-cost housing. It applies the metrics to actual zoning ordinances and zoning maps, materials that legal scholars have seldom closely appraised. The municipalities chosen for study lie in three metropolitan areas, the ones listed in the Article’s title. Of the three, zoning in Greater Austin, one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the United States, is—to no one’s surprise—the most conducive to housing development. …

Solving The U.S. Plastic Crisis: Chemical Recycling To Advance Plastic To Fuel Creation, Rachel Blue

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Nrsm 513.01: Natural Resource Conflict Resolution, Shawn Matthew Johnson, Travis Anklam

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Enst 570.01: Ethics And Restoration, Daniel T. Spencer

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Enst 230h.01: Nature And Society, Daniel T. Spencer

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Organic Cotton Clothing Purchase Behavior: A Comparative Study Of Consumers In The United States And Bangladesh, Md Nakib Ul Hasan, Chuanlan Liu, Bulbul Ahmed

Faculty Publications

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the differences and similarities of organic cotton clothing (OCC) purchase behaviors of the consumers who lie at the top and the bottom of the apparel supply chain. The influences of consumers’ sustainability knowledge and social norms on consumers’ attitudes and purchase intentions were examined to understand within the framework of the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA). Sample data were collected from the United States and Bangladesh and, finally, 136 useable responses were used for the data analysis. Among the useable responses, 85 samples were from the US (containing 91.76% female participants and …

Assessing China’S Environmental Ngo Public Interest Litigation Against The U.S. Citizen Suit Model, Huishihan Wang

Dissertations & Theses

This dissertation introduces the U.S. and China’s environmental governance evolution, the background of their private enforcement provisions, including each country’s environmental legislative, administrative, and judicial development before establishing private enforcement. After the introduction, the second section examines the U.S. environmental citizen suits’ origin, environmental movements during the 1960s and 1970s, and pioneer ENGOs’ legal experiences. Statutory provisions are reviewed in various aspects in order to fully present this significant U.S. private enforcement measure. The third section analyzes the trajectory of Chinese ENGO EPIL development, including the provisions and typical actions according to several scattered provisions. Section four compares the theoretical …

Nrsm 428.01: Climate Policy, Brian C. Chaffin

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

41st Annual Colorado Law Conference On Natural Resources, Max Bricker

Water Law Review

Equity in the Colorado River Basin: How to Sustainably Manage Shrinking Resource
Boulder, Colorado
September 30 - October 1, 2021

18th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference (Program), William & Mary Law School

2021 Property Conference

No abstract provided.

Urban Food Policy, Planning, And Security: A Location Analysis And Potential Impacts Of Creating Community Gardens In Dekalb County, Ga, Artis Trice

Symposium of Student Scholars

As food insecurity grows in complexity, the methods used to combat it must also evolve. In the Atlanta metropolitan area, direct community engagement and partnerships have led to the creation of small community garden and urban agriculture operations on public lands. However, food insecurity continues to be a problem, particularly in low-income areas where resources are fewer, such as areas within DeKalb County, Georgia. This project seeks to understand ways in which integrating food policy and planning into existing green infrastructure can mitigate issues related to food insecurity in DeKalb County and considers the following questions: How can food policy …

Front Matter And Table Of Contents

University of Miami Business Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Mixed-Methods Analysis Of Educational Spaces And Black Identity Development, Kala Burrell-Craft, Danielle R. Eugene

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

Guided by Critical Race Theory, Racial Space Theory, and Black Identity Development through the lens of the Nigrescence model, this mixed-methods study explored the links between educational spaces/places and Black identity development in a sample of Black professional adults (n=39). Correlation analysis revealed a weak positive relationship between space and Black racial identity and little to no correlational effect between place and Black racial identity. Three themes were identified: educational spaces, HBCU versus PWI debate, and stages of Black identity development with each providing more depth of understanding of how educational spaces influence Black identity development. Study implications are discussed.

Representation Justice As A Research Agenda For Socio-Hydrology And Water Governance, Melissa Haeffner, Dana E. Hellman, Alida Cantor, Idowu Ajibade, Vinka Oyanedel-Craver, Maura Kelly, Laura Schifman, Lisa Weasel

Environmental Science and Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

We propose representation justice as a theoretical lens for socio-hydrology and water governance studies. An exploratory survey of 496 water sector employees in the United States revealed that self-identifying females felt more strongly discriminated against due to their gender and other social factors, compared to self-identifying males. Responses unveiled how macro- and microaggressions impede career pathways to leadership positions and, therefore, representation. We identify ways in which socio-hydrology can benefit from a representation justice lens by considering the following: (1) how power and politics shape the composition of the water sector and decision-making processes; (2) how available quantitative data do …

The Effect Of Poverty Levels And Minority Percentages On Lead Content In South Carolina Midlands School Drinking Water, Kathleen L. Barfield

Journal of the South Carolina Academy of Science

No abstract provided.