Browsing by Subject "Environmental Justice"
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(2016-07-14)This scholarly-creative dissertation uses a decolonizing storytelling methodology to investigate the 1979 Church Rock uranium spill near Gallup, New Mexico, where an open-air uranium waste pond breached its earth dam, ...
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(2007-09-17)Lower income and minority communities have long borne an unequal burden of toxic pollution from environmental hazards. I examined environmental inequity, the unequal distribution of environmental hazards in minority and ...
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(2019-02-28)Why do some companies release more methane than others? Using a mixed methods approach, I explore this question by analyzing variation in Texas oil and gas extraction facility venting and flaring practices. The methane ...
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Environmental justice (EJ) is used to discuss how racially minoritized and low-income populations are disproportionately impacted by environmental hazards and has become an important consideration when evaluating environmental ...
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(2012-10-19)This dissertation engages a number of currents of environmental criticism and rhetoric in an analysis of the poetry, fiction, and non-fiction of the southeastern United States. I examine conceptions of genitive relationships ...
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(2022-08-23)The Greater Fifth Ward is a majority-minority environmental justice neighborhood in Houston, Texas, that experiences legacy pollution from various industries, Superfund sites, and former creosote facilities. Two cancer ...
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(2017-12-09)This dissertation examines the relationship between social vulnerability and plant level emissions. It utilizes a mixed methods approach that includes: 1) the historical context of the food manufacturing industry, environmental ...