Environmental Justice: Assessing Problems and Remedies

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

If one of the benefits of a robust democratic society is better health, then one of the more troubling continuing retrenchments is the threat that environmental injustice presents to citizen well-being. This panel proposal brings together scholarship that tests theoretical propositions about the state of or remedy to problems in environmental justice. Each paper on this panel reports on novel data collected by the authors to investigate how government agencies, communities or individuals manage environmental challenges in the face of competing incentives and varying political, ecological, and institutional contexts. In so doing, the panel collectively illustrates new advances in the literature on environmental politics and injustice, and make broader contributions to literatures in the political science field.

Sub Unit

• Division 39: Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics

Individual Presentations

• Policy Conflicts, Framing, and Advocacy: Water Shutoff Politics in Detroit - Olivia David, University of Michigan; Sara Hughes, University of Michigan

• Class, Race, Ethnicity and Safe Drinking Water: Does PFAS Have an Ethnic Accent? - David Switzer, University of Missouri; Michael Andrew Powell, University of Missouri, Columbia; Manny P. Teodoro, University of Wisconsin

• Adoption and Cooption of the Environmental Justice Issue Frame - Devin Judge-Lord, University of Michigan

• Screening for Justice - David Konisky, Indiana University, Bloomington; Christopher M. Reenock, Florida State University; James Carroll Stewart, Florida State University

Chair

• David Konisky Indiana University, Bloomington

Discussant

• Parrish Bergquist University of Pennsylvania