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Grassroots Environmental Justice Movements and Equitable Zoning Reform
Examine how frontline communities mobilize to challenge discriminatory land-use decisions and advocate for spatial equity.
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Environmental Catastrophes, Spatial Power, and Environmental Justice
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Analyze how natural and human-made catastrophes disrupt global systems, and evaluate how mapping, zoning, and institutional power produce environmental inequities.
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Learning standards covered
HS.52Oregon Social Studies Standards · All agesIdentify and analyze how map-making, zoning, and other policy decisions create social, political, and economic realities for various population groups.
HS.53Oregon Social Studies Standards · All agesExplain how power and privilege influence where people live and how they interact with their environment at the intergroup and institutional levels and how they have been affected.