Environmental Justice and Global Health

(3 Credits)

Environmental Justice - A Global Outlook (3) Environmental Justice has implications for public health practice both locally and globally because marginalized groups such as people of color and people of low socioeconomic status continue to be exposed to greater numbers of environmental hazards in their homes, in their jobs, in their communities, and in the food they eat, relative to the society at large. This course will explore the links between the environmental justice movement and civil rights. Students will examine the political response to the movement, both locally and globally, through legislative and regulatory actions.