C-Urge project is a doctoral network set up to research and better understand the complexity of climate and enviromental change, that is happening on global, as well as on a local scale.
Through various research approaches set in various countries, we aim to highlight the notion of urgency and need to enrich the debate around the topic of environemtal change, that is both fast, and subtle and poses a serious challenge for the future.
South Los Angeles Community Emissions Reduction Plan; can be useful for pointers when building the AB617 case for Santa Ana
AB617 meeting
South LA
March 9th 2023
Asking community members about stories in south LA (SLA) and any initiatives they are taking
Zotero bibliography: connecting pollution, health, and social Indicators as a measure of environmental injustice
Jill started by discussing Environmental injustice
Envt equalities also stem from well-intended advocates in the non-profit sector
EiJ Interview with Naomi Yoder, 2.7.2023
Meeting notes:
Introductory remarks by Kim Fortun:
AQMD Environmental Justice Advisory Group meeting
27th Jan 2023, 12:00 pm, Zoom
I am interested in seeing how social ties and networks have been used to cope with (un)natural disasters. My research focus on places under disasters conditions such as Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria, in which social ties have made the difference between life and death. Furthermore, “natural” disaster has been used to approved austerity measures and unjust policies to impoverished communities like in New Orleans after Katrina. These policies were not new, as they are rooted in structures of power to preserve the status quo. Yet, people have resisted, “through a network of branches, cultures, and geographies” that has stimulated a reflective process of looking within for solutions rather than outside. As often this outside solutions are not only detached from community’s reality but can perpetuate social injustices and inequalities.
McKittrick, K., & Woods, C. A. (Eds.). (2007). Black geographies and the politics of place. South End Press.
Bullard, R. D., & Wright, B. (Eds.). (2009). Race, place, and environmental justice after Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to reclaim, rebuild, and revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Westview Press.
The literature presented here has tried to focus on impacts of human health owing to air pollution to better measure environmental injustice.