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Apr 18, 2024
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POLI136 PO - Environmental Justice and Public PolicyWhen Offered: Spring 2021.
Instructor(s): R. Worthington.
Credit: 1
This course examines the political-economic context of environmental justice and public policies that aim to improve it. Topics include movements and campaigns that have engaged environmental problems as a social justice issue, their role in the policy system, and the challenges and successes they have experienced. Environmental justice will be considered from local through global levels, with primary emphasis on California. Much of the course will be conducted as a policy clinic in collaboration with an organization involved in EJ issues. Past collaborators have included Communities for a Better Environment, the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice and Community Locally Grown Power. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: EA 010 PO or POLI 003 PO or PPA 001 PO or STS001 PO. Previously offered as POLI039 PO.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 2; Analyzing Difference
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