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The Center's focus on environmental justice (EJ) incorporates its three lenses of epistemic, aesthetic, and social justice at local and global levels. It also intersects with SBU's role in the New York Climate Exchange and the Collaborative for the Earth (C4E).
PROJECTS
Women-Led Climate Resilient Farming model
Working with marginalized women farmers in India who have developed a one-acre model of climate resilient farming. In collaboration with CCSP, women farmers have collected over 700 surveys to study the impact of this model. We are in the process of analyzing this data. MORE INFO
In collaboration with NYU's Future of Rights Governance (FORGE), the Center is working on developing human rights centered frameworks to address ecological emergencies. MORE INFO
Global Research and Action Network for a New Eco-Social Contract
We are part of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and the Green Economy Coalition's Global Research and Action Network for a New Eco-Social Contract. MORE INFO. You can also read the project's brief HERE.
EJ RESOURCES
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CCSP faculty Peg Spitzer talks about her book Empowering Female Climate Change Activists in the Global South: The Path Toward Environmental Social Justice, and discusses climate justice, female empowerment, and how to amplify ecological community initiatives. |
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