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Social and Environmental Justice

A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 5775

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Steven J. Franks

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Department of Biological Sciences, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458, USA
Interests: environmental justice; evolutionary ecology; invasive species; plant responses to climate change
Prof. Dr. Z. George Hong

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Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458, USA
Interests: digital humanities; digital access justice; history; social justice
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Prof. Dr. Sophie Mitra

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Economics, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458, USA
Interests: disability; health; economic insecurity; human development
Dr. Nicholas Paul

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Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458, USA
Interests: medieval political cultures; religion and conflict; history and memory; digital humanities
Dr. Aseel Sawalha

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Anthropology, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458, USA
Interests: visual arts; global justice related to urbanism; gender and immigration

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Current social, economic, and political systems throughout the world have fostered profound injustice and resulted in unconscionable phenomena such as environmental degradation, racism, ableism, sexism, poverty, and rising inequality of access to resources and information. Many of these problems are worsening by the day, leading to an increased risk of social and environmental collapse. In response, a substantial body of scholarship has attempted to contribute to increasing social and environmental justice. However, few efforts have been made to integrate different perspectives on justice issues in a way that can form a systematic foundation for a deep societal shift in mindset and practices. 

These ideas motivate this Special Issue and are the bases for the Fordham University 2023 International Conference on Social and Environmental Justice. This Special Issue aims at addressing social and environmental justice in accessing natural and technological resources and knowledge nationally and globally. Collectively, this Issue will seek to understand how such conditions relate to history, structural adjustment programs, and worldwide policies that affect communities, habitats and species, and environmental regulations and standards all over the world. This Special Issue will cover subjects related to environmental justice, immigration justice, disability justice, digital and information access justice, and gender and sexuality. 

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Prof. Dr. Steven J. Franks
Prof. Dr. Z. George Hong
Prof. Dr. Sophie Mitra
Dr. Nicholas Paul
Dr. Aseel Sawalha
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • social justice
  • environmental justice
  • economic justice
  • disability justice
  • immigration justice
  • digital access justice

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A Study of Environmental Organizations in Puerto Rico Advocating for Social and Environmental Justice
by Clara E. Rodriguez and Carmen Collins
Soc. Sci. 2024, 13(5), 260; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13050260 - 11 May 2024
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After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, we wanted to determine how the islanders viewed environmental organizations as part of an effort to understand the relationships between attitudes, institutions, and environmental and social justice issues. As a category 5 hurricane, Hurricane Maria was one [...] Read more.
After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, we wanted to determine how the islanders viewed environmental organizations as part of an effort to understand the relationships between attitudes, institutions, and environmental and social justice issues. As a category 5 hurricane, Hurricane Maria was one of the strongest to hit Puerto Rico. Yet, the US mainstream media coverage of this and other environmental issues was lacking. From a total of 90 environmental organizations in Puerto Rico, we surveyed 19 that were active in the southwest of the island. We asked: (1) How do local people view environmental and social justice issues and (2) given their organizations’ efforts to deal with these issues, what are their successes? To address these questions, we developed a survey in English and Spanish and conducted personal and online interviews with 30 relevant individuals. Their most successful outcomes included: (1) educating and creating greater awareness of environmental issues; (2) introducing environmental changes into their communities; and (3) becoming and surviving as economically sustainable organizations. The results inform our understanding between environmental organizations and social and environmental justice in Puerto Rico and more broadly, because the organizations surveyed are at the center of fighting climate change and achieving environmental justice. Full article
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Education for Environmental Justice: The Fordham Regional Environmental Sensor for Healthy Air
by Stephen Holler, Usha Sankar, Mark McNeil, Melanie Knuts and Jahred Jack
Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(12), 681; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12120681 - 12 Dec 2023
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In urban environments, the nonuniform distribution of pollution contributes to disproportionate exposure to harmful pollutants in low-income and high-poverty neighborhoods. Particulate matter, especially of the class PM2.5, results from combustion processes which are a main driver for human-caused global warming and [...] Read more.
In urban environments, the nonuniform distribution of pollution contributes to disproportionate exposure to harmful pollutants in low-income and high-poverty neighborhoods. Particulate matter, especially of the class PM2.5, results from combustion processes which are a main driver for human-caused global warming and climate change. A resulting impact on socio-economically disadvantaged communities like the Bronx, NY is the high incidence of asthma, other respiratory diseases, and cardiovascular disease. This disparity is an environmental justice concern. Project FRESH Air is educating the community through STEM outreach with sensors for monitoring particulate matter, student projects, curriculum development, and wider community engagement in order to educate for environmental justice. Full article
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What Precisely Did Pope Francis Contribute? Parsing Key Terms and Claims in Laudato Si’
by Thomas Massaro S.J.
Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(10), 552; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12100552 - 2 Oct 2023
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With the 2015 publication of his encyclical letter Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, Pope Francis emerged as a leading religious voice (alongside Patriarch Bartholomew) advocating for ecological justice and environmental sustainability. This remarkable exercise of global leadership has demonstrably [...] Read more.
With the 2015 publication of his encyclical letter Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, Pope Francis emerged as a leading religious voice (alongside Patriarch Bartholomew) advocating for ecological justice and environmental sustainability. This remarkable exercise of global leadership has demonstrably influenced subsequent discourse, activism and deliberations on the environment, including the Paris Agreement of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) in December 2015. In order to advance the collective understanding of the diagnosis of the environmental crisis and the prescriptions for change presented by Pope Francis in this teaching document, this essay examines key terms, claims and conceptual tools presented in its pages. This essay opens with a pointed analysis of the historical context within which this particular religious contribution to environmental justice proceeds. It closes by tracing certain key outcomes and ongoing impacts of the contribution of Pope Francis to this area of social concern. Full article
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