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Class Detail:

FA 2012
Program in the Environment
ENVIRON 222 - Introduction to Environmental Justice
Section 001
Issues in Race & Ethnicity

Credits: 3
Requirements & Distribution: SS
Other: Sustain
Repeatability: May not be repeated for credit.
Primary Instructor: Taylor,Dorceta E

 

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This course explores people of color environmental concerns and specifically focuses on the connection between communities of color and low-income groups and the location of hazardous waste sites. This course also explores Native American environmental issues and the connection between the transboundary shipping of hazardous waste from developed countries to developing ones.


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Textbooks/Other Materials (data maintained by department in Wolverine Access)
Coursepack Location: Readings not in textbook will be posted on CTools.
Note: The textbook is required and is used in the first half of the term; please obtain a copy before the term begins.

ISBN: 9780822344513 The environment and the people in American cities, 1600-1900s : disorder, inequality, and social change, Author: Dorceta E. Taylor., Publisher: Duke University Press 2009
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