In the book, Mendez draws from his own experiences as public policy as an advisor, senior legislative consultant, lobbyist and as a gubernatorial appointee during the passage of California’s climate change laws. “California is not just a national leader but a global leader looking at mitigation and adaptation policies around climate change,” Méndez said. “I look at how environmental justice groups in communities of color, who are suffering the worst from climate change with things like air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, are working to address some of the needs.”
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California’s environmental justice advocates have made it clear for years that clever schemes to reduce global carbon emissions can still permit harm to local communities, if polluters are allowed to keep on polluting. Now, with the Sunrise Movement and the Green New Deal, that message is going national.
How has California been at the vanguard of environmental justice? And how can we protect the most vulnerable people when we’re trying to fight climate change?
From the University of California, Irvine, I’m Aaron Orlowski. And you’re listening to the UCI Podcast. Today, I’m speaking with Michael Méndez, an assistant professor of urban planning and public policy at UCI. He’s also the author of the book “Climate Change from the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement.”
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‘Strong critical theory doesn’t play a big role in peace science anymore, or even in peace studies’, states American political scientist Scott Gates in this conversation with his long-term collaborator Nils Petter Gleditsch. Scott calls for more and better recording of data disaggregated in time and space; more work that takes advantage of quasi-experimental designs and other methods through which we can better ascertain causal inference; and further use of data from social media to better appreciate such phenomena as the relationship between social media use and protest activities.
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