This course adopts a service-learning approach to examine how environmental sustainability can be achieved in a fair, just, and equitable manner through impactful community service. By utilizing the environmental justice framework, students will explore how social inequalities shape the processes and outcomes of sustainable development. Environmental justice highlights the need to address the intersection of social justice and environmental issues. Students will be guided by instructors to initiate service-learning projects, the focus of which will be on raising the awareness towards making an impact in one of the four dimensions of environmental justice:
- identifying distributional issues related to environmental impact;
- recognizing the environmental needs and voices of communities;
- fostering community participation in sustainability-promoting activities;
- and developing community capabilities for environmental resilience and sustainable growth.
Course lectures will explore SDG #2 Zero Hunger, #7 Affordable and Clean Energy, #12 Responsible Consumption and Production, #13 Climate Action, #14 Life Below Water, #15 Life on Land, #17 Partnerships for the Goals, and service-learning projects attempt to address related social-environmental issues.