Class Research Resources and Assignments
Videos
of Class Session 1Week 1
Class Research Resources and Assignments
Videos
of Class Session 1
| Introduction
to Environmental Justice Historical Background
to Environmental Justice (Opening comments to be delivered by Professor Hoyte, in Class Session 2) In the meantime, some coures preliminaries:
By way of introduction to the subject of "Environmental Justice" we should remember that we are dealing with the intersection of the environment AND of notions of justice. The underlying effort of the entire term will be to encourage and provoke you to think through principles of environmental justice. The first step will be to be able to isolate and then analyze the principles that guide just and ethical behavior in the environment. We will often do this by way of considering specific historical cases of environmental injustice as well as explicit and implicit principles expressed in the formulation of specific policies. Ethical dilemmas exist wherever there are choices to be made. The pattern of choices made -- or left un-made by default -- reveal the implicit environmental ethic that governs human behavior in particular cases. So we will be discussing specific cases in a framework that will seek to highlight the principles of environmental justice. These principles are both reflected in these specific cases and they transcend these cases to form the basis for your larger reflections on problems of environmental justice in human society. Required Readings |
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