Environmental Justice (EM)

Subject associations
SPI 434 / ENV 434
Term
Spring 2025
Instructors
Eric Tate
Registrar description

This course introduces you to environmental justice, which examines the processes that systematically lead poor and marginalized communities to face a disproportionate degree of environmental risks and hazards. Beginning with the birth of the environmental justice movement focused on the siting of waste facilities, we will trace the development of the field as it has expanded into examination of food, climate, water, energy, and the international waste trade.