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Working Group on Environmental Justice
With support from the Harvard University Provost's Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration, the University Committee on Environment and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research
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Issues of environmental justice affect a wide and disparate range of constituencies and communities. Nevertheless, the common themes of environmental degradation and community exclusion characterize many of the problems that minorities and communities of color face in their daily lives. The phenomena of urban and suburban "sprawl" provide a dramatic example of the multiple problems faced by communities of color in coping with the environmental degradation around them.
As part of its ongoing commitment to the programs of the Working Group on Environmental Justice the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute proposes to apply for funds through the Provost's office to develop instructional technology and distance learning environments with the Working Group for university-level courses and faculty/student research on the issue of "Environmental Justice and Urban Sprawl."
Click here for a demonstration of potential course platform and capacities.