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Sustainability, equity, and anti-racism are critical knowledge and skills for the next generation of civil engineers to work on our most pressing social and environmental problems. As an instructor anywhere in the world, you can freely use our materials in your classrooms.
Identify how sustainability challenges and environmental racism interrelate and relate to civil engineering.
Analyze , describe, and incorporate sustainability science, equity, and environmental justice into the design process.
Develop skills to consistently improve personal and organizational practices for sustainability and EDI.
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Identify how sustainability challenges and environmental racism interrelate and relate to civil engineering
Presentations:
● Why environmental justice in engineering?
● Why sustainability in engineering?
● What is environmental justice?
● What is environmental justice? (additional slides)
● What is environmental racism?
● What is environmental inequality?
● What is sustainability?
● Environmental justice tools for engineers?
● Sustainability threshold concepts
● Environmental justice tools for engineers (additional slides)
● Planetary boundaries step by step
● Environmental justice – analysis methods
● IPAT framework
● SDGs cities focus (SDG 11)
● Environmental justice with water resource focus
● Transportation equity
● Sustainability with water resource focus
● Frameworks for sustainability in water resources
Activities and assignments:
● Activity: Water resources and environmental racism in BC
● Activity: Core elements of water sustainability plan
● Activity: Groundwater Sustainability in social-ecological and earth systems
● Activity: Intersection flooding climate change environmental justice
● Assignment: Groundwater related environmental racism and injustice
● Assignment: Groundwater report for Indigenous Community
Identify how sustainability challenges and environmental racism interrelate and relate to civil engineering
Identify how sustainability challenges and environmental racism interrelate and relate to civil engineering
Presentations:
● Identifying social location, and equity, diversity, and inclusion overview
Activities:
● Activity: Social location and dominant culture
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