Name: Friday - Environmental Justice, the Built Environment and Environmental Policies in Urban Areas
Start: 2013-04-05T10:55:00-0700
End: 2013-04-05T12:15:00-0700

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Friday - Environmental Justice, the Built Environment and Environmental Policies in Urban Areas

Moderator: J.R. Estes (Portland State University)

Enhancing the Civic Capacity of Environmental Justice Communities: The Case Study of Farmworkers in Oxnard, California
Haco Hoang (California Lutheran University), Michelle Vargas (University of Southern California), Kaitlyn Noli (University of California, Santa Barbara)
How Did We Get Here? A History of Health and the Built Environment in the United States
Russ Lopez (Northeastern University)
The Prevalence of Obesity among Residents of Low-income Neighborhoods: Assessing the Factors of Lifestyle, Socioeconomic Status and Built Environment
Deden Rukmana (Savannah State University), Sujin Kim (Savannah State University)
Environmental Policy Innovation: Do We Mean the Same Thing?
J.R. Estes (Portland State University)

Presenters

J.R. Jones Estes

Director, Freshmen Year Experience in University Studies, Portland State University

interests: culture (esp. discourse & media) and environmental policy, political economy of public policy, and activist scholarship

Deden Rukmana

Associate professor and coordinator of Urban Studies and Planning program, Savannah State University

Deden Rukmana is an associate professor and coordinator of Urban Studies and Planning Program at Savannah State University, USA. He received a PhD degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Florida State University and completed master’s degrees from the University of Southern California... Read More →

Co-Authors

Friday April 5, 2013 10:55am - 12:15pm PDT
Six Continents Room (Mark Hopkins Hotel)

Panels

Topic Environmental Issues-Sustainability-Urban Health-Technology and Society

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