Research Resource and Assignment Page

Week 6
Class Research Resources and Assignments
Videos of Week 6 Lectures

Guest Speaker

Charles Lord
6 March 2007

Required Readings

Mary L. Cadenassoa, Steward T.A. Pickettb, Morgan J. Grovec
2006	"Integrative approaches to investigating human-natural systems: the Baltimore ecosystem study,"Natures Sciences Sociétés, 14, 4-14 (2006)

Charles P. Lord, Dr. Eric Strauss, Aaron Toffler
2006	"Natural Cities: Urban Ecology and the Restoration of Urban Ecosystems," Virginia Environmental Law Journal, 317 (2003).

Toxic Waste, Unequal Protection & Facility Siting

- Toxic Wastes & Race
- Racism and the disproportionate siting of polluting facilities in Communities of Color

Suggested Readings:

Rechtschaffen and Gauna
	Chapter VIII : Facility Permitting

Course Packet

Goldman and Futton, “Toxic Wastes and Race Revisited”

Bryant, Bunyan. 2003. “Henry Ford Medical Waste Incinerator: A Case Study” in Environmental Advocacy, Chapter 6

Faber, Daniel, and Eric J. Krieg
2001	Unequal Exposure to Ecological Hazards: Environmental Injustices in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: A Report by the Philanthropy and Environmental Justice Research Project, Northeastern University, (Boston, Northeastern University, Department of Sociology, 9 January 2001).