Environmental Justice Law and Policy

Calendar

Class Sessions	Due Dates
Part I: Introduction, Theories, and Histories of Environmental Justice
1. Several Founding Documents of Environmental Justice
2. Histories of the Environmental Justice Movement (field trip to Alternatives for Community and Environment)	weekly response paper due
3. Theories of Environmental Justice	weekly response paper due
4. Causation (field trip to GreenRoots)	weekly response paper due
Part II. Advancing Environmental Justice: Risk, Regulation, Knowledge Creation, Land Use, Litigation, and Mobilization
5. Policymaking: Risk Assessment, Cost-Benefit Analysis (guest speaker Paul Shoemaker, Boston Public Health Commission)	weekly response paper due outline for final paper or project due
6. Forms of Regulation: Standard-Setting, Markets, Disclosure (guest speakers Joe Higgins and Seth Kinderman, MIT Infrastructure Business Operations; Julie Newman, MIT Office of Sustainability)	weekly response paper due
7. Scales of Action: Federal, State, and Local Policies to Advance Environmental Justice	weekly response paper due
8. The Production of Environmental Knowledge, Litigation, Mobilization (guest speaker Mariana Arcaya)	weekly response paper due
9. Land Use Planning and Environmental Justice (guest speaker Gene Benson)	weekly response paper due
Part III. Selected Contemporary Environmental Justice Issues
10. Environmental Gentrification, Food Justice, Prisons (guest speaker Anim Steel and Sarita Daftary)	weekly response paper due
11. Hazard Mitigation and Inequality (guest speaker Al Bender, FEMA)	weekly response paper due
12. Disaster Recovery and Inequality (guest speakers Mia Mansfield and Kailila Barnett)	weekly response paper due
13. Movement Building	weekly response paper due project of change / research paper due project/paper presentations
14. Just Transition (guest speaker Penn Loh)	project/paper presentations