1. The Call for Environmental Justice Professor Richard Schulterbrandt Gragg, Ph.D. Florida A&M University School of the Environment Tallahassee, Florida 32307
Environmental Ethics Conceptual Framework
“Mutual dignity and respect among humans will lead us to our proper understanding
of our role and responsibility within and to the environment where we live, work, and play. “
Richard Schulterbrandt Gragg III
Interdisciplinary Teaching About Earth for Sustainable Future
Engaging Environmental Justice in Geoscience Courses Workshop
Sarah K. Fortner, Richard Schulterbrandt Gragg, Rob Rohbaugh and Cathy Manduca
Monday, December 10th, 4:00-6:00pm, Georgetown Room, Marriott Marquis, Georgetown Room
2018 American Geophysical Union Annual, Washington DC

2.
Environmental justice (EJ) is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations and policies.
Fair treatment means no group of people should bear a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, governmental and commercial operations or policies.
Meaningful involvement means:
People have an opportunity to participate in decisions about activities that may affect their environment and/or health;
The public's contribution can influence the regulatory agency's decision;
Community concerns will be considered in the decision making process; and
Decision makers will seek out and facilitate the involvement of those potentially affected.

3. Environmental Injustice: Collectively Exposed Uniquely Challenged
Disparate Co-Locations and Cumulative Impacts
Environmental Stressors
People of Color and/or Low Wealth Populations
Equitable Development Test Beds
Ground Zero
Economic, Social and Environmental Sustainability Solutions
Collaborative
Replicable
Scalable

4. Mapping the Cancer Corridor Along Louisiana’s Gulf Coast
“Cancer Alley” does not itself appear on maps.  But this eighty-five mile stretch of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, into which are packed some one hundred and fifty factories of petroleum refining or chemical production, merits the name since its notorious wastes have grown so large to define the local landscape to merit the name–the amount of toxic and hazardous wastes that they regularly release has overwhelmed the landscape.  The simple austere presence of names of chemical compounds, no doubt sized in an elegant Times New Roman in a font-size that corresponds to their relative production, suggests an imposition of meaning inscribed on the map, stripped of any actual toponymy, save the ghostly half-tones naming the corporations who have remade the landscape the residence of chemical production.
Mapping the Cancer Corridor Along Louisiana’s Gulf Coast

5. Environmental Injustice
Air Quality [Toxic Tensions in the Heart of ‘Cancer of Alley’]
Water Quality [The Effects of Flint’s Lead Poisoning Disaster]
Landfills [Here is Where BP is Dumping Its Oil Spill Waste]
America’s Toxic Schools

6. Public Policy Challenges and Opportunities
Health disparities, socioeconomic inequalities cumulatively affect individual and community vulnerability, risk and resiliency.
Intersectorial partnership models generate meaningful research, and equitable development policies to achieve environmental justice.
Environmental justice research and public policy must embody a bias for action.
Interagency Environmental Justice Working Group
National Environmental Justice Council
National Environmental Justce Youth Advisory Board
Public Policy Challenges and Opportunities

7. Environmental Justice Pedagogy
Integrative
across disciplines
across sectors
across ways of knowing
across geographic scales
across temporal scales
Place-based conceptual and operational framework
Values-based focus on the human condition
Contextual
― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
“In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be... This is the inter-related structure of reality.”

8. ‘Crossing scales & levels to make connections is central to community-based participatory action science’ Sarah K. Fortner

9. Scale and Cross Scale Challenges and Responses
Ignorance
Mismatch
Plurality
Scale and Cross Scale Challenges and Responses
RESPONSES
Institutional Interplay
Co-Management
Boundary or Bridging Organizations

10. Case Studies and InTeGrate Resources
Engaging Environmental Justice in Geoscience Courses
Lead in the Environment
Food as the Foundation for Healthy Communities
EPA's Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool