Environmental Justice

Environmental Justice

Earth surface processes can be intimately intertwined with issues of environmental justice.  On this page, we have compiled some basic resources to learn more about environmental justice and find ways you can get involved in your own community. 

New to EJ?

Watch our October 2020 EPSP Connects panel on the intersection of environmental justice and geomorphology. 

Get involved

• Thriving Earth Exchange: AGU's clearing house to connect scientists with community projects and vice versa.
• Citizen Science Association
• Community Engagement, Environmental Justice, & Health Lab - A great resource on EJ and more, make sure to check out their mapping tools. 
• Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
• Earth Justice: Connect with local legal groups and EJ lawyers.
• Federal Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice (EJ IWG)
• NAMATI: Innovations in legal empowerment 
• National Black Environmental Justice Network
• National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center
• Public Lab

Conferences

• Citizen Science Association Conference
• National Environmental Justice Conference & Training Program

Education Materials

• SERC: Teaching materials on EJ and sustainability

Textbooks, articles and blog posts

• Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice (check if your local library has a copy, and if not, ask your librarian to request a copy for you)
• COVID-19 and EJ
• EPA's Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Model
• Let's talk about scientific racism, colonialism, and imperialism
• WEGO: Going beyond extractive methodologies to research extractivism

Find funding

There are many funding agencies that support environmental justice work. Not all of the links below are directly related to the EJ, but many of them have supported EJ work in the past.  If you're interested in funding EJ work, it's always a good idea to reach out to program managers to get more information.

• Altman Foundation
• Kresge Foundation
• Mott Foundation
• National Academic of Sciences Standing Committee on Advancing Science Communication
• NASA Citizen Science
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
• NSF GEOPAths: Improving undergraduate STEM education - Pathways into the Earth, Ocean, Polar, and Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences. 
• NSF GOLD: GEO Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity
• NSF AISL: Advaning Informal STEM Learning
• NOAA Sea Grant
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Sundra Foundation