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.
Environmental injustice involves cumulative and compounding, unevenly distributed vulnerabilities, hazards, and exposures – produced locally, regionally, nationally and transnationally – with open-
This report is an update to Ecojustice's 2007 Report: Exposing Canada's Chemical Valley that looked at the air pollutants emitted by the petrochemical industrial complex called Chemical Valley in S
Named “the most polluted air in Canada” in 2011 by the World Health Organization (The Chemical Valley, 2013) and
Report by Ecojustice in 2007 that details the status of Chemical Valley and the corresponding air pollution impacting neighboring communities.
Short video documentary of Chemical Valley in Sarnia, Ontario Canada by VICE.
Advocacy Action
The Pollution Reporter app in an example of a civic data resource for the Chemical Valley (Sarnia, CA) case study (Group #3).