USP 589 Urban Environmental Justice: History, Theory, and Practice

Combines lecture and seminar styles to introduce students to various ways of understanding urban "nature" at the intersection of environmental justice and planning practices. Students will contrast dominant ecological frameworks with those used in the social sciences (e.g., urban political ecology, actor-network theory, ecological gentrification), with attention to the social, political, and economic contexts in which they arose, and implications of each for research, planning, management policy, and politics.