For this assignment, you will identify and weigh the effectiveness of strategies that serve to mitigate environmental racism and work toward environmental justice.
Tasks:
This part of the Course Project expects you to address aspects of environmental justice by considering the following questions.
- What has the community done?
- What have allies from outside the community done?
- Describe the policies in place at the local, state, or federal level that address environmental racism at the local and national levels.
- Identify some beginning ideas about how an intervention could occur at the individual and systems level (i.e., micro, mezzo, or macro level).
- What are the barriers?
- What has been achieved?
- What are the failures and setbacks?
- What recommendations do you have?
