Please join us on Thursday, March 11th at 4pm for the Teale Lecture by Dr. Robert Bullard, Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy Texas Southern University: “The Quest for Environmental and Climate Justice”. Free and open to the public.
https://cese.uconn.edu/the-edwin-way-teale-lecture-series/
Dr. Robert Bullard has often been described as the father of environmental justice. A Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning Environmental Policy, and former Dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University, he is also an award-winning author of eighteen books that address sustainable development, environmental racism, urban land use, industrial facility siting, community reinvestment, housing, transportation, climate justice, disasters, emergency response, and community resilience, smart growth, and regional equity.
Climate change is the defining environmental justice, human rights, and public health issue of the twenty-first century. The most vulnerable populations around the world will suffer the earliest and most damaging setbacks because of where they live, their limited income and economic means, and their lack of access to health care. Climate-sensitive hazards are expected to increase in the coming years, but the populations most directly impacted in hazard zones have widely differing capacities to prepare, respond, cope, and rebound from disaster events.
Dr. Bullard will examine the intersection of environmental action (or inaction) and racial disparities. The presentation will focus primarily on the United States and the need for empowering vulnerable populations, identifying environmental justice and climate change “hot-spot” zones. Bullard will discuss designing fair, just and effective adaptation, mitigation, emergency management and community resilience and disaster recovery strategies, and offer strategies to dismantle institutional policies and practices that create, exacerbate, and perpetuate inequality and vulnerability before and after disasters strike.
For more information, contact: carol.atkinson-palombo@uconn.edu at carol.atkinson-palombo@uconn.edu