Main description:

This book examines and encourages the increasing involvement of those in the social sciences, including social work, as well as everyday citizens, with environmental injustices that affect the natural ecology, community health, and physical and mental health of marginalized communities. The authors draw on their diverse experiences in research, practice, and education to suggest interdisciplinary strategies for addressing environmental justice, climate change, and ecological destruction on both a local and global scale.
This insightful work presents models for action, practice, and education, including field learning, with examples of how programs and schools have integrated and infused environmental justice content across their curricula. Environmental and ecological impacts on local communities as well as the whole ecology of life are examined. Models for engaging civic dialogue, addressing structural oppression, and employing other interdisciplinary responses to environmental injustices are provided.
Topics explored among the chapters include:

Water, Air, and Land: The Foundation for Life, Food, and Society
Human Health and Well-Being in Times of Global Environmental Crisis
Power and Politics: Protection, Rebuilding, and Justice
Pathways to Change: Community and Environmental Transformation
Decolonizing Nature: The Potential of Nature to Heal

The Intersection of Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Community, and the Ecology of Life equips readers to identify the impact of the global environmental crisis in their own communities. Emphasizing the need for immediate action on ecological, climate, and environmental justice issues, this forward-thinking book assists social science professionals, educators, researchers, and other concerned individuals with the knowledge needed for creating meaningful interdisciplinary responses in their communities as they take action within a rapidly changing context.

Contents:

Dedication
Acknowledgment
Preface
About the Authors
About the Contributor
Chapter 1: Climate Change, Ecology, and Justice
Chapter 2: Water, Air, and Land: The Foundation of Life, Food, and Society
Chapter 3: Celebrating and Preserving the Ecology of Life
Chapter 4: Environmental Injustice: Transformative Change Towards Justice
Chapter 5: Human Health and Well-Being in Times of Global Environmental Crisis
Chapter 6: Power and Politics: Protection, Rebuilding, and Justice
Chapter 7: Pathways to Change: Community and Environmental Transformation
Chapter 8: Decolonizing Nature: The Potential of Nature to Heal
Epilogue
Appendices:Appendix A-The Story of Grand BoisAppendix B-Puerto Rico: Inequality, Environmental Injustice, and ResistanceAppendix C-Flint Water CrisisAppendix D-Camino Seguro (Safe Passage)Appendix E-Rural Health and Well-being Appendix F-Warren Wilson College: A Case Study in Environment EducationAppendix G-Creating Change: From Critical Self-Reflection to Knowledge Building to Personal and Collective Action
Index