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Environmental Justice as a "Human Rights" Struggle in the 21st Century
January 18, 2011
Public Lecture by Dr. Sylvia Hood Washington For more than three decades, environmental grassroots activists and scholars alike framed environmental justice as a continuation of the civil rights struggle that began in the first half of the 20th century and centered around economic and political equity. The new sciences of environmental epidemiology and toxicology that emerged in the latter half of the 20th century (and continue today), however, have shown that EJ issues are tied to both long-term and short-term impairment of the human body, even down to the DNA levels. Aren't all humans entitled to a future that leaves them and their families biologically and genetically intact for generations to come as a basic human right? Dr. Sylvia Hood Washington is an interdisciplinary-trained scholar in engineering (MS Systems Engineering), history of science, technology and the environment (Ph.D.), and natural health/medicine (ND). She has been involved in the environmental field for over 25 years and her doctoral, as well as her ongoing research efforts, have been deeply influenced by her experiences as a corporate/government environmental engineer, environmental activist , and as a professor developing and teaching environmentally-focused Science Technology and Society courses for non-science students.
Pruyne Lecture Hall in Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College
7:00 pm