- Title Pages
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Advancing Urbanization
- 2 Sustainable Cities
- 3 Four Asian Tigers
- 4 Cities as Opportunities
- 5 Critical Environmental Education
- 6 Environmental Justice
- 7 Sense of Place
- 8 Climate Change Education
- 9 Community Assets
- 10 Trust and Collaborative Governance
- 11 Environmental Governance
- 12 Nonformal Educational Settings
- 13 Community Environmental Education
- 14 School Partnerships
- 15 Sustainable Campuses
- 16 Early Childhood
- 17 Positive Youth Development
- 18 Adult Education
- 19 Intergenerational Education
- 20 Inclusive Education
- 21 Educator Professional Development
- 22 Cities as Classrooms
- 23 Environmental Arts
- 24 Adventure Education
- 25 Urban Agriculture
- 26 Ecological Restoration
- 27 Green Infrastructure
- 28 Urban Digital Storytelling
- 29 Participatory Urban Planning
- 30 Educational Trends
- Afterword
- Contributors
- Index
Environmental Justice
Environmental Justice
- Chapter:
- (p.59) 6 Environmental Justice
- Source:
- Urban Environmental Education Review
- Author(s):
Marcia McKenzie
Jada Renee Koushik
Randolph Haluza-DeLay
Belinda Chin
Jason Corwin
, Alex Russ, Marianne E. Krasny- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
This chapter discusses the importance of environmental justice and issues of equity within urban environmental education. Urban environmental education engages with environmental justice through topics such as disparities in access to nature and ecosystem services and in exposure to industrial pollution and other environmental risks. There are many approaches to addressing injustice, including food sovereignty, political mobilization, and climate justice. The chapter first provides a brief history of the environmental justice movement before presenting three case studies illustrating educational responses to environmental injustice in cities: Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective and Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice in New York City, and the Equity and Environment Initiative in Seattle, Washington. These initiatives demonstrate the ways in which race, colonization, poverty, and other social issues overlap with access, understandings, benefits, and related considerations of urban place, as well as how urban environmental education is addressing these intersections.
Keywords: environmental justice, urban environmental education, food sovereignty, political mobilization, climate justice, cities, equity, environmental injustice
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- Title Pages
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Advancing Urbanization
- 2 Sustainable Cities
- 3 Four Asian Tigers
- 4 Cities as Opportunities
- 5 Critical Environmental Education
- 6 Environmental Justice
- 7 Sense of Place
- 8 Climate Change Education
- 9 Community Assets
- 10 Trust and Collaborative Governance
- 11 Environmental Governance
- 12 Nonformal Educational Settings
- 13 Community Environmental Education
- 14 School Partnerships
- 15 Sustainable Campuses
- 16 Early Childhood
- 17 Positive Youth Development
- 18 Adult Education
- 19 Intergenerational Education
- 20 Inclusive Education
- 21 Educator Professional Development
- 22 Cities as Classrooms
- 23 Environmental Arts
- 24 Adventure Education
- 25 Urban Agriculture
- 26 Ecological Restoration
- 27 Green Infrastructure
- 28 Urban Digital Storytelling
- 29 Participatory Urban Planning
- 30 Educational Trends
- Afterword
- Contributors
- Index