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Environmental Injustice Concepts

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Digital collection of resources for understanding and using critical concepts to characterize and respond to environmental injustice. 

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Alexi Martin

Andrew Lakoff studies anthropology and sociology at USC. He has studied science and medicine around the world. He is interested in the implications of biomedical innovations. Stephen Collier studies anthropology and has published on infrastructure and social welfare. They are both professionally equipped  to talk about this topic because they study humans and human interactions.

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Alexi Martin

The policy has been recieved positively by the public. Many people believe remembering 9/11 is more than a memory. It is something so drastic that affected the entire country. So everyone felt it needed to be enacted into law. The public was estatic about continuing support for innocent people who lost their lives due to the actions of others.

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Alexi Martin

The main findings presented in the article is the lack of recovery in the New Orleans after Katrina and the factors that did not cause a complete rebuild. The article discusses what happened to the poor, how the residents were treated and the lack of government funding to the city- due to the levee needing to be rebuilt. The article also discusses the mental health of those who experienced Katrina and the stress that radiated from it. The article also discusses private businesses that have thrived in lieu of those who need homes, aid and basic necessities.