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EiJ Global Record: Calhoun County, Texas, USA

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This is a case study collection focused on Calhoun County, Texas, including material about different petrochemical plants, environmental activism, and visions for reviving the fishing community.

Sihanoukville, Cambodia

This place collection focuses on Formosa Plastics' export of 3,000 tons of mercury-laced waste from Kaohsiung to Cambodia in 1998, followed by environmental advocacy and clean-up efforts.

Pödelwitz got future

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Pödelwitz is an activist initiative  in the central german coal district, which is located in a village which was supposed to be evacuated for a planned expansion of a neighboring coal mine. After successfully resisting this expansion, the activists now promote social-ecological transformation in the village and the wider region. I will collaborate with them as part of my project in C-urge to study the role of justice in such transformations. Thereby we hope to arrive at an understanding of justice that is not opposed to urgent societal transformation in light of climate change, but a means of achieving this.

Environmental Data and Governance Initiative

Environmental Data and Governance Initiative: "The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) documents, analyzes, and advocates for the federal provision of environmental data and gover

B_Vuong Response to "What do you hope to get out of the lab?"

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 I want to contribute to and learn from research that is not only focusing on a particular EJ field but is also inherently interdisciplinary. In this way, I hope to expand my experience on different collaborative approaches to EJ research and see projects make a difference in the communities that we are working with. I also hope to learn from listening to more experienced researchers in the Lab and gain an understanding of the process of academic research as a whole. Overall, a research community of passionate, supportive people!