ALA 102 Mapping Environmental Justice You can find everything in the attachment, please read it carefully and follow the instructions ALA 102 S19 Landscape

ALA 102 Mapping Environmental Justice You can find everything in the attachment, please read it carefully and follow the instructions ALA 102 S19 Landscapes and Sustainability
Assignment #2: Mapping Environmental Justice
Student Name: __________________
Total points: 8 Points
Assignment due via Blackboard by 11:59pm on March 19
A. Mapping Environmental Justice in your chosen US city (2.5 points)
Making information transparent and assessable is critical to inform communities and decision-makers to
recognize environmental justice issues and develop policies and strategies accordingly. In this exercise,
you are going to create one map identifying Environmental Justice Hotspots using the EJSCREEN tool. In
addition, please write a short paragraph to describe your findings.
Instructions:
Please study your chosen city in the United States using the EJSCREEN: EPA’s Environmental Justice
Screening and Mapping Tool, https://www.epa.gov/ejscreen to create Environmental Justice maps.
Read about what EJSCREEN is and lunch the tool. You can find Glossary of EJSCREEN here:
https://www.epa.gov/ejscreen/glossary-ejscreen-terms#category-demographics
Step1: Add Maps ? Side-by-side Maps (automatically directed to a new window)?
Step2: Choose one variable from Environmental Indicators on the left map, you can choose to compare
to US or State, click Update Map ?
Step3: Choose one variable from Demographic Indicators (do not choose composite Demographic Index)
,you can choose to compare to US or State, Update Map ? Now you have environmental vulnerability
map on the left and social vulnerability on the right, drop down the legends and read the two maps
carefully to understand what different colors mean ? compare two maps, circle proximate areas that
coincide with the highest percentile of both environmental and social vulnerability ? describe in a
sentence or two what the circles entail about environmental justice issues in this city
Step4: Now you have environmental vulnerability map on the left and social vulnerability on the right,
drop down the legends and read the two maps carefully to understand what different colors mean ?
compare two maps, circle proximate areas that coincide with the highest percentile of both
environmental and social vulnerability ? EJ Hotspots Map (1.5 point)
Step 5: Describe in few sentences about your findings. What do the circles entail about environmental
justice issues in this city? For example: In Washington DC, the places where having the nearest distance
to hazardous waste facilities are also where the most minority population live comparing across the
nation. Please use your own words to describe your findings (1 point).
B. Mapping Environmental Justice in your environment (5.5 points)
*The part of assignment is adopted from material collected in chapter 9 of the book: De la Pen? a, Allen, Hester,
Hou, Lawson, Allen, Diane Jones, Hester JR., Randolph T., Hou, Jeffrey, and Lawson, Laura J. (2017). Design as
democracy: Techniques for collective creativity. Island Press.*
Environmental Justice Mapping creates a spatial record of inequities in accessibility, distribution of
public resources, and exclusionary design. The maps are particularly powerful in raising public awareness
in ways that written reports alone do not; they make the invisible visible, embarrassing authorities and
spurring action.
Inaccessibility to the necessities of everyday life, information and decision making prevents many people
from an opportunity to thrive. For example, land-use segregation and remote places of work handicap
those without cars. A map of these locations overlaid by carless households can be compared to a
similar map for households with cars showing the burden of inaccessibility.
Similarly, distribution of desired resources and unwanted land uses is typically skewed. Maps showing
relative distribution of parks, decent housing, healthy food or water as well as polluted air, dangerous
industries, or toxic sites usually reveal patterns of environmental classism and racism.
From restrictive zoning to the shape of benches design encourages some and excludes others from using
public facilities. Mapping the geography of exclusion based on age, gender, class, race, migrant status or
other marginalizing factors shows patterns of discrimination with blatantly missing activity settings or
subtle messages telling “others” they are unwelcome. All of these can be effectively mapped.
Instructions:
1. Personal experiences of injustice (0.5 point)
Most of us are concerned about injustices, but nothing makes us more intensely committed to
justice than to be treated unfairly ourselves. Recall an instance when you were unjustly treated.
Remember how you felt. Draw the feeling. (note: you may express your feelings through
sketches, painting, pictures, poems, etc.)
2. Environmental justice in my environment (5 points)
Discover subtle injustices by observing your environment. Identify conditions of your
environments following the three environmental justice design considerations: accessibility,
distribution of “goods”, and distribution of “bads”. Make notes about the physical
characteristics of the spaces. Develop a vocabulary of environmental justice for yourself. Identify
a minimum of 2 items in each EJ design considerations.
You may use the following table as a guidance:
Name and location of your one chosen environment where you live, study, work, play, or pray:
Environmental Justice Design
Considerations/Attributes
Accessibility (e.g., wheelchair/
Describe the physical characteristics of your environment in
respective environmental justice design attributes
Just Environment
Unjust Environment
Attribute 1:
Attribute 1:
(1 points)
Attribute 2:
Attribute 2:
Distribution of “Goods” or
“Bads” (“Goods” here means
Attribute 1:
Attribute 1:
Attribute 2:
Attribute 2:
blind/deaf /age accessible, height,
language, cultural, religions)
beneficial features to communities
such as recreation amenities, access
to parks, shaded streets, public
transit options, distance to healthy
food choice.)(“Bads” here means
harmful elements to the
communities such as notable
pollutions, noise, close proximity to
fast foods, crime.)
(1 points)
Inclusion/Exclusionary
Rules/Norms (1 points)
(Are there written rules or
Attribute 1:
Attribute 1:
unspoken rules or norms in your
communities that are inclusionary
or exclusionary from race, gender,
religion, culture, disabilities,
physical variances, etc.?)
Attribute 2:
Attribute 2:
What other factors made my
environment just or unjust?
Just Environment
Unjust Environment
Add two attributes of your own
vocabulary of environmental
justice. (1 point)
Attribute 1:
Attribute 1:
Attribute 2:
Attribute 2:
Describe in few sentences how each
of the attribute make a just and an
unjust space. (1 point)

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