Barnard College/ Environmental Department-Sabin Center Project on Environmental Justice
Project: Create an annotated bibliography of US resources concerning the intersection of climate change and environmental justice organized by 29 topics, and eventually grouped by zip code/ geographic location.
Reason: There are numerous studies that talk about the geographic location or demographic incidence of various relevant factors, and making them all readily accessible in one place could be helpful to policymakers, advocates and scholars, and would help avoid a lot of duplicated work. To organize them by their geographic location, we need first to locate all digital websites/organizations and index their published resources, offering a brief descriptive content per each category and subcategory.
Benefits of the Project: Once the above compilation is available, it will provide a basis for students to do all sorts of analyses about the vulnerabilities and opportunities created by climate change.
Tasks: For Spring 2021, students enrolled in Barnard’s Environmental Law & Policy (Dana Neacsu, BC Instructor) will work with Michael Gerrard (Sabin Center Director – CLS Professor)
- Finding websites of organizations publishing both raw data (reports), and scholarly works on the topics below;
- Indexing the content into subtopics and providing abstracts (annotations)
- Organizing the content similarly to https://cdrlaw.org/.
| Area of research | Area of research | Area of research | Area of research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Areas without sewers | Air Quality Levels | Air pollution sources | Dietary patterns |
| Disease incidence (including COVID-19) | Drinking water quality | Educational attainment | Electricity sources (fossil, renewables, nuclear) |
| Endangered species habitat | Expected job losses and job gains in the energy transition | Extreme temperatures (e.g., organizations/websites publishing maps where and when extreme temperature are expected; indexing the type of data those resources offer) | Fossil fuel-related employment |
| Health care services (e.g. per capita hospital beds, physicians) | Housing stock characteristics | Housing units with air conditioning | Income levels |
| Mass transit accessibility | Occupational characteristics | Proximity to hazardous waste sites | Proximity to oil and natural gas wells, coal mining |
| Racial, ethnic, age demographics | Sources of water pollution | Surface water quality | Voting patterns |
| Vulnerability to drought and vulnerability to wildfires | Vulnerability to flooding | Vulnerability to hurricanes and other extreme wind events | Wind resources; solar resources (suitability for new renewable facilities) |
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