| Class Sessions | Due Dates |
|---|---|
Part I: Introduction, Theories, and Histories of Environmental Justice | |
1. Several Founding Documents of Environmental Justice | |
2. Histories of the Environmental Justice Movement (field trip to Alternatives for Community and Environment) | weekly response paper due |
3. Theories of Environmental Justice | weekly response paper due |
4. Causation (field trip to GreenRoots) | weekly response paper due |
Part II. Advancing Environmental Justice: Risk, Regulation, Knowledge Creation, Land Use, Litigation, and Mobilization | |
5. Policymaking: Risk Assessment, Cost-Benefit Analysis (guest speaker Paul Shoemaker, Boston Public Health Commission) |
weekly response paper due outline for final paper or project due |
6. Forms of Regulation: Standard-Setting, Markets, Disclosure (guest speakers Joe Higgins and Seth Kinderman, MIT Infrastructure Business Operations; Julie Newman, MIT Office of Sustainability) | weekly response paper due |
7. Scales of Action: Federal, State, and Local Policies to Advance Environmental Justice | weekly response paper due |
8. The Production of Environmental Knowledge, Litigation, Mobilization (guest speaker Mariana Arcaya) | weekly response paper due |
9. Land Use Planning and Environmental Justice (guest speaker Gene Benson) | weekly response paper due |
Part III. Selected Contemporary Environmental Justice Issues | |
10. Environmental Gentrification, Food Justice, Prisons (guest speaker Anim Steel and Sarita Daftary) | weekly response paper due |
11. Hazard Mitigation and Inequality (guest speaker Al Bender, FEMA) | weekly response paper due |
12. Disaster Recovery and Inequality (guest speakers Mia Mansfield and Kailila Barnett) | weekly response paper due |
13. Movement Building |
weekly response paper due project of change / research paper due project/paper presentations |
14. Just Transition (guest speaker Penn Loh) | project/paper presentations |
