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GEOP3000 � Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene
NoneProject description
The Anthropocene is a proposed new geological epoch in which humanity is driving planetary change. This unit explores how environmental decision making and planning processes can be made more just in the context of the Anthropocene. It draws on perspectives from environmental justice, a field of research and activism focused on addressing the social and geographic inequities associated with environmental change. Environmental justice highlights how responsibility for, and the burdens of, environmental degradation are unevenly distributed across space and scale, and divided between and within social categories such as race, class, gender, ethnicity and species. Environmental justice and decision-making are analysed through a series of case studies that are presented by academic staff and environmental professionals. An important component of the unit focuses on developing analytical and practical skills for pursuing environmental justice, which requires the ability to synthesise geographic information from the social and physical sciences and engage with multiple stakeholders, decision making tools, and forms of communication. The unit makes the relationships between justice and environment more visible in a world of rapid environmental change and provides pathways and tools for pursuing more just and resilient futures.
Project aims
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Project outcome
ULO1: Assess environmental decisions or plans using environmental justice concepts or frameworks ULO2: Synthesise geographic information from the social and physical sciences to identify environmental justice issues ULO3: Describe and explain common environmental injustices associated with contemporary forms of socioecological change ULO4: Investigate and appreciate diverse stakeholder perspectives using environmental justice tools and concepts to improve environmental decision-making ULO5: Argue for improved environmental justice outcomes in a variety of written and spoken forms
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