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Climate Change: Environmental Racism

Environmental Racism

West Valley College Library Books

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State of Disaster: The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change

Clean and White

Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming

Coming of Age at the End of Nature : A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet

Environmental Racism in the United States and Canada

Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement

Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice

Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger

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Native American Communities Affected by Climate Change Plan for the Future (Abstract) Native Americans from Maine to Washington State convened for a conference at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Their goal: to discuss the effects of climate change on tribal communities.
Toxins in Poor Neighborhoods
History of Environmental Justice

Web Articles

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"How Climate Change Interacts with Inequity to Affect Nutrition" (Abstract) "Climate change poses a growing threat to the achievement of optimal nutritional status, both directly through affecting food production and indirectly through altering social and economic influences in people's lives. These adverse nutrition outcomes are not evenly distributed across the world, and vulnerable populations are the most impacted. Understanding how different forms of inequity interact with climate change and adverse nutritional outcomes is a novel area of research in today's challenging environment of increased climate change pressures. This article presents the results of a systematic literature search undertaken to identify the connections, trends and pathways between climate change, inequity and nutrition outcomes. Forty-six peer-reviewed studies are identified that explore these complex interactions with a specific focus on the extent to which equity is a fundamental component of climate change and nutrition research. The pathways captured in this body of evidence are mapped to current framework thinking to identify trends and gaps. While there is a trend for studies to acknowledge an unfair distribution of vulnerability to adverse nutrition outcomes, there is less attention given to the (lack of) recognition of the social situations which increase these groups' vulnerability and the absence of representation or inclusion of these groups as vital decision-makers. Studies that do incorporate these core dimensions of equity take mixed-method and qualitative approaches. This highlights an inherent value in stepping outside the usual scope of empirical climate change research, one that incorporates the voices of those most affected."

World Economic Forum - "What is Environmental Racisms and How Can We Fight It?"

Greenaction - Environmental Justice & Environmental Racism

Streaming Videos

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Environmental Racism: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Greenpeace - What is Environmental Racism?

How Environmental Racism Shapes the US

Youth Perspective on Environmental Justice and Racism

Environmental Racism Is the New Jim Crow

Podcasts

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Why We Need to Talk About Environmental Racism

Environmental racism and the struggle for climate justice

The Color of Climate Change

Land, Health, and History - A fight for Environmental Justice and Community Legacy