Spring, 2010 Course Announcements (updated 10/29/09)

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EES. 79903/ SOC.84519 Environmental Justice , Prof. Gould.
Who reaps the benefits of improvement in environmental quality, and who pays
the costs? Who bears the burden of environmental decay, and to whom do the
social gains accrue? This course focuses on the distributional dimensions of
environmental protection and environmental degradation, both domestically
and globally, with an emphasis on the synergistic impacts of race and class
stratification in the distribution of socio-ecological benefits and costs.
Substantive areas of focus will include urban segregation and unequal access
to environmental amenities, the siting of hazardous facilities in
communities of color and poor communities, unequal protection of
environmental health, green gentrification, ecocide and the subjugation of
indigenous peoples, rural extraction economies, appropriation of resources
from Native lands, population control initiatives directed at
peoples-of-color, and the national and transnational export of hazardous
waste to the "Souths². The course will also examine the social origins and
impacts of an increasingly globalized environmental justice movement, and
its relationships to civil rights, labor, and mainstream environmental
movements.