Addressing environmental injustice: The viability of community-based planning

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dc.contributor.authorDraayer, Crysta
dc.contributor.departmentEnvironmental Studiesen_US
dc.contributor.departmentGeography and Geosciencesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-30T14:52:05Z
dc.date.available2018-05-30T14:52:05Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThe problems posed in cases of environmental injustice, which is largely based on the disproportionate exposure of poor and minority populations to environmental harms and hazards, and their lack of influence in and access to planning and decision making, are further exacerbated by standard mainstream data collection and mapmaking. This inextricable link between environmental injustice and planning is strongly revealed even when one simply looks at the city of New Orleans, a place where post-Hurricane Katrina rebuilding and recovery seems to reflect the city’s history of inequality in both the environmental and planning decision making processes. Post-Katrina New Orleans is therefore a key case study to highlight the difficulties and barriers of critical case study analysis, particularly as they relate to the limitations and bias of existing available data and maps. The research described and analyzed in this thesis aims to answer the following question: how can community-based planning and critical GIS be implemented as solutions to address environmental injustice, using post-Katrina New Orleans as a case study? The information obtained via an applied mixed-methods study reveals that a critical approach to GIS, paired with a community-based approach to planning, is necessary for the improved collection of data that represents the multiple stakeholders and values present in cases of environmental injustices, especially those stakeholders that are underserved and marginalized. This critical and participatory approach will, in turn, lead to the development of maps better suited to assist local government, activists, and the general public in addressing the harsh realities that communities suffering from environmental injustice face.en_US
dc.format.extent44 pagesen_US
dc.genrethesesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2ST7F09F
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/10876
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtSalisbury Universityen_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental justiceen_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental injusticeen_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental justice and planningen_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental justice and public participationen_US
dc.subjectCritical GISen_US
dc.subjectEffects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleansen_US
dc.subjectHurricane Katrinaen_US
dc.subjectPost-Hurricane Katrina recoveryen_US
dc.titleAddressing environmental injustice: The viability of community-based planningen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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