This collaborative project between the University of Michigan (U-M), Ann Arbor and the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Río Piedras, is funded by a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
2025 U-M/UPR Global Curriculum Development Program
Global Environmental Justice and Praxis:
Action, Advocacy, and Learning in the Classroom
Environmental justice recognizes the interconnectedness between societal and biophysical factors in advancing both sustainability and human rights. Today, environmental social movements can be found everywhere. From the Landless Workers Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra) in Brazil to the Green Belt Movement of Kenyan Indigenous Women, communities around the world are taking direct action to advocate for environmental justice at all levels of society.
These efforts understand that many inequities related to class, gender, and race have deep historic connections to issues of land use, resource depletion, and environmental degradation and exploitation. Environmental justice research also demonstrates that the detrimental effects of global climate change - brought on through complex systems of global trade, industrialization, large-scale, conventional agriculture, and the “waste trade” - have a disproportionate impact on marginalized communities around the world (Mohai et al., 2009). Relatedly, policies and resources dedicated to adaptive/mitigation strategies are unequally distributed between the Global North and the Global South, as well as within national and provincial boundaries.
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