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Module Title	LH Environmental Justice
School	School of Geog Earth & Env Sci
Department	Geography
Module Code	03 26337
Module Lead	Rosie Day
Level	Honours Level
Credits	20
Semester	Semester 2
Pre-requisites	LI Environmental Assessment and Management - (03 23438)
Co-requisites
Restrictions	none
Contact Hours	Lecture-20 hours Seminar-9 hours Guided independent study-171 hours Total: 200 hours
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Description	Through this module, students will explore the intersections of environmental issues and social justice, conceptual territory often termed environmental justice or environmental inequality. They will be introduced to various notions of social justice, including distributional theories, procedural theories and those concerning ‘recognition’. These theories will be applied to understand various cases studies from the UK and form other parts of the world, in order to understand and analyse how various environmental issues such as pollution and climate change have different impacts on different sectors of the population. We will also consider how and why different people might experience the environment differently, and how their ability to derive benefits might not be equal. As well as analysing problems, students will consider policy perspectives: both how best to avoid engendering injustice in environmental policy making, and what kinds of policies might be needed to address existing inequalities. Here, notions of vulnerability and resilience will be considered. Substantive topics considered in the course of the module might include the distribution of air pollution and its effects; vulnerability to natural hazards; inclusive environmental design; fuel poverty; and equality analysis of carbon reduction policy. The module will complement other areas of study in the environmental, social and planning pathways of the geography undergraduate programme. It will develop key skills in critical conceptual thinking, problem solving and policy analysis and should be highly relevant to students considering careers in environmental, social and energy policy; planning and urban design; natural resource management; and social work as well as those more generally needing strong analytical and independent thinking skills for graduate level employment.
Learning Outcomes	By the end of the module students should be able to: understand and explain how different sectors of the population such as older people, children and different racial groups may be differentially affected by environmental problems and environmental change articulate different theories of social justice including theories of distribution, procedure and recognition; and apply these to understand the effects of environmental problems and environmental change on people analyse complex situations to understand people-environment relations from competing and complementary conceptual perspectives show an awareness of how environmental inequalities and injustices may operate across different scales, from the local to the global take a critical approach to understanding social vulnerability and resilience with respect to environmental matters consider the justice implications of policies that have positive or negative environmental impacts.
Assessment	26337-01 : Essay : Coursework (33%) 26337-02 : Examination : Exam (Centrally Timetabled) - Written Unseen (67%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions	Assessment: 2 hour exam (66%), 2,500 word essay (34%)
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