Header: a 2019 climate protest in San Francisco (Photo by Li-An Lim, via Unsplash)
The objective of the Coastal California Environmental Justice Conflicts project is to build a data repository that systematically catalogs environmental justice (EJ) conflicts along coastal California. The team is tracking the social dimensions of these conflicts, including where conflicts occur, what natural resources are involved, what communities are impacted, how EJ organizations and advocates mobilize to engage in these conflicts and how conflicts are portrayed in media.
We hope that by documenting EJ conflicts systematically, we will be able to learn about patterns across conflicts that may support communities and EJ organizations to learn from one another and respond in more effective, coordinated ways. The conflict cases are compiled from multiple sources of archival data, including newspaper coverage and policy documents uncovered through systematic web searching.
In addition to the principal investor, Jessica Rudnick, the team working on this project includes Linda Esteli Mendez-Barrientos (University of Denver), Jack DePuy (2022 CASG State Policy Fellow), James Chhor (2022 CASG State Policy Fellow), Hanna Payne (2021 CASG State Policy Fellow), Jenn Fields (2021 CASG State Policy Fellow) and Monica Cisneros (CSU San Marcos Undergraduate/CASG Community Engaged Research Intern).