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Environmental Justice
Justice (1686) by Luca Giordana.
Environmental Justice is defined by the US Environmental Protection Agency as: "the fair treatment of and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.
Fair treatment means that no group of people, including racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic groups, should bear a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and tribal programs and policies."
The Climate Change issue:
Climate poses the most complex, profound, and important environmental justice issue that we have yet encountered.
The consequences of climate change will far outrun the impacts of any other environmental justice issue.
Although it will disporportionately harm the poor and powerless, it challenges our conventional moral and political concepts.
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Documentary & Lesson Plans: People of a Feather
SUMMARY (90 & 52 minutes available) Featuring groundbreaking footage from seven winters in the Arctic, People of a Feather takes you through time into the world of... More »
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Case Study: Alberta’s Oil Sands and the...
SUMMARY This case examines health and environmental issues of Alberta’s Cree First Nations and the rights of the Province of Alberta and lease-holders to develop the... More »
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Video: Inuit Observations on Climate Change
SUMMARY This is a full length forty-two minute film. Interviews with native Inuits in which they convey their impression of climate change impact on their native lands,... More »
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Video: Chernobyl's Power
SUMMARY 50 minutes Released 2012, New documentary film on the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster and the contemporary energy strategy of... More »
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Website: National Congress of American Indians
SUMMARY The National Congress of American Indians, founded in 1944, is the oldest, largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization serving... More »
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Unit: Global Health
SUMMARY Students will be introduced to the global effects of climate change on human health. The lesson(s) focuses on how governmental and non-governmental... More »
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Conflict Resolution
SUMMARY Students will be introduced to conflict resolution for climate change adaptation. Guest lecturer Peter T. Coleman, Director of the International Center for... More »
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Societal Contributors to Climate Literacy
SUMMARY Though Florida A&M University (FAMU) is an HBCU (Historically Black College/University), its student population is diverse with respect to the representation of... More »
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World Ethics & Climate Change Learning Guide
The contents of this guide mirror the contents of World Ethics and Climate Change. Each chapter of the guide corresponds with the chapter of the same title in the book. Thus the... More »
Syllabus: Responding to the Challenge of Climate...
Last Updated on 2013-06-09 at 17:38
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This course features guest lectures from faculty across the university, sharing the approaches their disciplines bring to understanding the challenge of global... More »
European Environmental Agency
Last Updated on 2013-05-15 at 16:30
The European Environment Agency (EEA) is an agency of the European Union (EU) established to function as a major source of information and data to be used in developing,... More »
Case: Is Anybody Listening?
Last Updated on 2013-05-10 at 18:21
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The case is an example of how Western-based property law, Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act, Public Law 93-531, has undermined traditional Native American practices... More »
Case: Can the needs for environmental protection and...
Last Updated on 2013-04-18 at 19:41
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This case study jigsaw approach with a is based on the article "A Challenge to Consrvationists" by Mac Chapin. The case study discusses the tensions... More »
Documentary & Lesson Plans: People of a Feather
Last Updated on 2013-04-12 at 18:23
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(90 & 52 minutes available)
Featuring groundbreaking footage from seven winters in the Arctic, People of a Feather takes you through time into the world of... More »
Food and Climate Change
Last Updated on 2013-04-04 at 19:29
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This course considers the reciprocal relationship between Earth's changing climate and the human production and consumption of food. With attention to current... More »
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