Environmental Justice from Footnote to Headline: The U.S. Experience and Challenges AheadCNRS - Auditorium Marie Curie, 3 rue Michel-Ange 75016 Paris
Le 13 juin 2025 de 16h00 à 17h00
Présentation
Environmental Justice from Footnote to Headline:
The U.S. Experience and Challenges Ahead
Robert D. Bullard, Ph.D.
Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice
Texas Southern University
Houston, Texas USA
The United States is segregated, and so is pollution. Historically, people of color and poor communities in the U.S. have borne a disproportionate burden of pollution created by others, including pollution from highway traffic, landfills, garbage dumps, incinerators, refineries, chemical plants and a host of other polluting facilities. Using science, research, data, and facts combined action, Professor Robert D. Bullard has written 18 books over the past four decades. He has rigorously shown the connection between environmental, energy and climate justice, housing, residential segregation and racial redlining, land use, industrial facility siting, transportation, public health and civil rights. His presentation will focus primarily on the U.S. and his work over the past four-plus decades that has supported vulnerable and underserved populations—identifying environmental and climate change “hot-spot” zones and designing fair, just and effective adaptation, mitigation, emergency management and community resilience and disaster recovery strategies. He will also discuss his latest book, The Wrong Complexion for Protection: How the Government Response to Disasters Endangers African American Communities (2023), which analyzes more than eight decades of differential government response to natural and human-made disasters. Climate change is the number one environmental justice threat of the twenty-first century. Unfortunately, it will exacerbate existing disparities and vulnerabilities and widen the gap between the “haves” and “have-nots.” Finally, Bullard will offer insights into recent federal initiatives underway in the U.S. to dismantle decades-old environmental, energy, and climate justice and civil rights policies, regulations and laws
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