EnviroInjustice Researchers
Enviornmental injustice researcher's program pages.
Enviornmental injustice researcher's program pages.
Collections of readings that examine and conceptualize environmental injustice.
"Why we need the Wild" is a visual essay that intents to explain and show the importance of protecting the remaining large, intact, and wild places on earth - for nature and humans.
This memo will add some of my thoughts to Carlys memo which gives a great overview for the chemical valley case study.
Following the article, the author J. Kenens has published another paper "Changing perspectives: tracing the evolution of citizen radiation measuring organizations after Fukushima (2020)" DOI: 10.1051/radiopro/2020041 (link) that draws on the research on citizen science in Japan with a new focus on the comparison of their practices directly after the nuclear accident and today.
It is interesting to see how citizen science in Japan is enacted and how the concept of citizen science is dependent to the social and cultural context. Also looking at it not only from a top-down perspective, where universities or organizations are involved, but also the bottom-up perspective that includes only those practices that are done by citizens alone opens up a new space. As I am currently engaging with research on air pollution in different sites, I could build from this text in considering the link between "citizen-driven approaches and institutional imparatives in the governance" (p. 7) of issues with air pollution.
This slide pictures a brief timeline of developments in the Chemical Valley