Topics Covered During Environmental Justice Weekend

In addition to the sciences that focus on the environment, environmental justice issues involve political, societal, legal, economic, ethical and public policy decision-making factors.

Among some of the specific EJ topics to be addressed in this program are:

• the causes of environmental injustice
• “environmental racism”
• defining environmental justice
• distributive justice issues and the environment
• socio-economics and environmental equity
• environmental justice and public policy
• facility siting and environmental justice
• emerging technologies and environmental justice
• brownfields redevelopment and environmental justice
• environmental justice internationally
• solutions for the problem of environmental justice
• the environmental justice movement