Taught By:
Meryl Shriver-Rice
Assistant Teaching Professor
Department of Human Ecology
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Rutgers University
Read profile here.
Motivation to Teach Social Action:
I teach environmental justice and my students are very interested in social action and bringing more social action into the classroom
Course Description:
This course examines ecosystem health, environmental values, and social justice. It starts from the premise that all people have a right to live in a clean environment and access resources to sustain health and livelihood. We will investigate under what conditions some people are denied this basic right and how some have fought back. How is it that certain groups of people experience the effects of pollution or environmental hazards more than others, or lack basic resources? What are the social relations of production and power that contribute to these outcomes? How have people organized to demand environmental justice?
