The Quest for Environmental and Climate Justice: Why Race and Place Still Matter

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Cosponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities (2018 Issa Lecture)

Climate change is the defining global environmental justice, human rights and public health issue of the twenty-first century. The most vulnerable populations will suffer the earliest and most damaging setbacks because of where they live, their limited income and economic means, and their lack of access to health care. Dr. Robert D. Bullard, considered the father of environmental justice, will focus primarily on the need for empowering vulnerable populations, identifying environmental justice and climate change "hot-spot" zones and designing fair, just and effective adaptation, mitigation, emergency management and community resilience and disaster recovery strategies. He will also discuss his book, The Wrong Complexion for Protection, which analyzes more than eight decades of government response to natural and human-made disasters, and offer strategies to dismantle institutional policies and practices that create, exacerbate and perpetuate inequality and vulnerability before and after disasters strike.

Free and open to the community. Registration requested to the Baker-Nord Center

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