Environmental Justice (How Does Inclusive Excellence Relate to Environmental Health?)
Resources collected by Pamela Gibson
Environmental justice is concerned with the use and abuse of the natural environment and the equity of who pays the price for pollution. The field began as environmental racism with a focus particularly on areas such as “Cancer Alley” (the area between Baton Rouge and New Orleans) in Louisiana due to the hundreds of petrochemical plants that are situated there. A few years back corporations would purposely choose minority communities to situate polluting factories because it was thought that poor people and minorities could not fight back. Minority communities are more prepared these days, but still bear the brunt of inequities in pollution. Flint Michigan is a perfect example. Children, people in the global south, poor people and women also suffer disproportionately when natural environments are harmed. Please check out these resources that include books, articles, reports, and videos.
Environment and Race:
Articles:
Bullard, R. (2016, Feb 3). Five Questions for Robert Bullard On the Flint Water Crisis and Justice. YaleEnvironment360. https://e360.yale.edu/digest/five_questions_for_robert_bullard_
on_the_flint_michigan_water_crisis
Berliner, J. (2017). Environmental injustice/racism in Flint, Michigan: An analysis of the bodily integrity claim in Mays v. Snyder as compared to other environmental justice cases. Pace Environmental Law Review, 35(1), 108-134.
Carter-Pokras, O., Zambrana, R.E., Poppell, C.F., Logie, M.A. & Guerrero-Preston, R. (2007). The environmental health of Latino children. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 21(5), 307-314. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/
pii/S0891524506007371?via%3Dihub
Fleischman, L, & Franklin, M., Yaylor (Ed.), & Uhi, S. (Ed.). (2017, November). Fumes across the fence-line. NAACP and CLEANAIR Task Force. Available at https://www.catf.us/resource/fumes-across-the-fence-line/
Grove, M., Ogden, L., Pickett, S., Boone, C., Buckley, G., Locke, D.H., Lord, C., & Hall, B. (2018). The legacy effect: Understanding how segregation and environmental injustice unfold over time in Baltimore. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(2), 524-537.
Holtcamp, W. (2012). Obesogens: An environmental link to obesity. Environmental Health Perspectives, 120(2), A63-A68. https://search.lib.jmu.edu/permalink/01JMU_INST/lvvpvt/
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Mohai, P. & Bryant, B. (2020). Thirty years working for environmental justice: Commemorating the 1990 Michigan Conference on race and the environment and looking toward the future. New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental & Occupational Health Policy, 30(3), 204-210.
Books:
Bullard, R.D. (2007). Growing smarter: Achieving livable communities, environmental justice, and regional equity (urban and industrial environments). MIT Press.
Bullard, R.D. (2000). Dumping in Dixie: Race, class, and environmental quality, third edition. Routledge. NYU Press.
Bullard, R.D. (Ed.). (1994). Unequal protection. Random House.
Bullard, R.K. & Waters, M. (2005). The quest for environmental justice: Human rights and the politics of pollution. Counterpoint.
Bullard, R.D. & Wright, B. (2012). The wrong complexion for protection: How the government response to disaster endangers African American communities.
Bullard, R.D. & Wright, B. (2009). Race, place, and environmental justice after Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to reclaim, rebuild, and revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Routledge.
Taylor, D. (2014). Toxic communities: Environmental racism, industrial pollution, and residential mobility. NYU Press.
Carney, J. & Rosomoff, R.N. (2011). In the shadow of slavery: Africa’s botanical legacy in the Atlantic world. University of California Press; First edition.
Glave, D.D. (2010). Rooted in the earth: Reclaiming the African American environmental heritage. Lawrence Hill Books; Illustrated edition.
Videos:
A Brief History of Environmental Justice ProPublica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30xLg2HHg8Q 3:35
Endocrine disruption, environmental justice, and the ivory tower | Tyrone Hayes | TEDxBerkeley (Paste the title into browser). Race x Gender. 14:45
Environmental Justice, Explained. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dREtXUij6_c Race x SES. 3:33
Environmental Justice: Peggy Shepard at TEDxHarlem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJX_MXaXbJA Race x SES 7:52
"Pollution is Segregated" Says the Father of Environmental Justice | Amanpour and Company: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU-D3YkOe-w 17:43
What is Environmental Racism? | Al Jazeera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrbeuJRPM0o 2:56.
Why Indigenous Environmental Justice Matters. The IEJ Project. 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY03C0ST23o 5:50
Environmental Justice and Ses
Articles:
Deutz, P. (2014). A class-based analysis of sustainable development: Developing a radical perspective on environmental justice. Sustainable Development, 22(4), 243-252/
Books:
Shiva, V. (2020). Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering illusions, seeding freedom. Chelsea Green Publishing.
Videos:
Environmental Justice, Explained. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dREtXUij6_c Race x SES. 3:33
Environmental Justice: Peggy Shepard at TEDxHarlem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJX_MXaXbJA Race x SES 7:52
TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch - Van Jones - Environmental Justice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WMgNlU_vxQ 12:58
Environmental Justice and Body Size:
Video: Weight Loss is More Than Calories – Obesogens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieQBdS9cN0I
Environmental Justice and Children:
Articles:
Carozza, S.E., Li, B., Elgethun, K., & Whitworth, R. (2008). Risk of childhood cancers associated with residence in agriculturally intense areas in the United States. Environmental Health Perspectives, 116(4), 559-565. https://europepmc.org/article/MED/18414643
Carter-Pokras, O., Zambrana, R.E., Poppell, C.F., Logie, M.A. & Guerrero-Preston, R. (2007). The environmental health of Latino children. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 21(5), 307-314. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/
pii/S089152450600737
Reports:
NIEHS/EPA children’s environmental health and disease prevention research centers. Impact report. Protecting children’s health where they live learn and play. https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2017-
10/documents/niehs_epa_childrens_centers_impact_report_
2017_0.pdf?pdf=chidrens-center-report
Steingraber, S. (2007). The falling age of puberty in U.S. girls: What we know, what we need to know. Breast Cancer Fund. http://pinkribbonblues.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/
Steingraber-falling-age-of-puberty.pdf
Environmental Justice and Rural Communities:
Video: Warren County Documentary (NC). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YJJ2OQ3zSs 8:01
Environmental Justice and Urban Populations:
Articles:
Takahashi, B., Adams, E.A., & Nissen, J. (2020). The Flint water crisis: Local reporting, community attachment, and environmental justice. Local Environment, 25(5), 365-380.
Watkins, S.L. & Gerrish, E. (2018). The relationship between urban forests and race: A meta-analysis. Journal of Environmental Management, 209, 152-168.
Environmental Justice and Gender:
Books:
Detraz. N. (2016). Gender and the environment. Polity; 1st edition.
Kim, N. (2021). Refusing death: Immigrant women and the fight for environmental justice in LA. Stanford University Press; 1st edition. Due out June 1.
Sasser, J.S. (2018). On infertile ground: Population control and women’s rights in the era of climate change. NYU Press.
Shiva, V. (2016). Staying alive: Women, ecology, and development. North Atlantic Books; Reprint edition.
Stein, R. (Ed.). (2004). New perspectives on environmental justice: Gender, sexuality, and activism. Rutgers University Press.
Report: Steingraber, S. (2007). The falling age of puberty in U.S. girls: What we know, what we need to know. Breast Cancer Fund. http://pinkribbonblues.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Steingraber-falling-age-of-puberty.pdf
Video: Gender and climate justice. Interview with Ndivile Mokoena from GenderCC Southern Africa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4jzZrNgPnQ
Environmental Justice and Agriculture/Food Democracy
Books:
Shiva, V. (2015). Earth democracy: Justice, sustainability, and peace. North Atlantic Books; Reprint edition.
Shiva, V. (2016). Biopiracy: The plunder of nature and knowledge. North Atlantic Books; Reprint edition.
Shiva, V. (2020). Reclaiming the commons: Biodiversity, traditional knowledge, and the rights of mother earth. Synergetic Press.
Shiva, V. (2015). Stolen harvest: The hijacking of the global food supply. University Press of Kentucky; Reprint edition.
Shiva, V. (2016). The violence of the green revolution: Third world agriculture, ecology, and politics. University Press of Kentucky; Reprint edition.
Shiva, V. (2016). Seed sovereignty, food security: Women in the vanguard of the fight against GMOs and corporate agriculture. North Atlantic Books
Williams, B. (2018). “That we may live”: Pesticides, plantations, and environmental racism in the United States South. Environment & Planning E: Nature & Space, 1(1/2), 243-267.
Environmental Justice and the Global South:
Journal - Special Issue: Third World Environmental Justice. Society & Natural Resources (Special Issue), August 2008, 21(7).
Books:
Pellow, D.N. (2017). What is critical environmental justice? Polity; 1st edition.
Shiva, V. (2015). Soil not oil: Environmental justice in an age of climate crisis. North Atlantic Books; Reprint edition.
Video: Exploring environmental justice in Bangladesh: Syeda Rizwana Hasan at TEDxDhaka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W9BrZgsMK8 22:34
Environmental Justice and Intersectionality
Article: Collins, T.W., Grineski, S.E., & Morales, D.X. (2017). Sexual orientation, gender, and environmental injustice: Unequal carcinogenic air pollution risks in Greater Houston. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 107(1), 72-92.
Book: Pomeroy, J.Y. & Wadhwas, V. (Eds.). (2019). Society, space, and social justice: Geographies of intersectionality. Lexington Books.
Environmental Justice and Community Psychology/Mental Well-being
Bevc, C.A., Marshall, B.K., & Pcou, J.S. (2007). Environmental justice and toxic exposure: Toward a spatial model of physical health and psychological well-being. Social Science Research, 36(1), 4867. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/
pii/S0049089X05000694
Rempel, J. (2016). Community psychology and environmental justice: An interview with Dr. Manuel Riemer. The Centre for Environmental Health Equity. https://cehe.ca/2016/07/05/riemer/
Participitory Research in Environmental Justice
Article: Davis, L.F. & Ramirez-Andreotta, M.D. (2021). Participatory research for environmental justice: A critical interpretive synthesis. Environmental Health Perspectives, 129(2), 1-20/ CID: 026001. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP6274
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