Overcoming Blind Spots to Promote Environmental Justice Research

Maria N Miriti; Gillian Bowser; Carmen R Cid; Nyeema C Harris

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2020.12.011

Overcoming Blind Spots to Promote Environmental Justice Research

Trends Ecol Evol. 2021 Apr;36(4):269-273. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.12.011. Epub 2021 Jan 19.

Authors

Maria N Miriti¹, Gillian Bowser², Carmen R Cid³, Nyeema C Harris⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. Electronic address: miriti.1@osu.edu.
² Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Department 1479, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.
³ School of Arts and Sciences, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT 06226, USA.
⁴ Applied Wildlife Ecology (AWE) Lab, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

PMID: 33483170
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.12.011

Abstract

Ecological research includes social-ecological-evolutionary processes, but the intersectionality and feedbacks between ecology and environmental justice (EJ) remain low. We here present opportunities for ecological research contributions to EJ. Ultimately, such work can reduce racial and social disparities in environmental provisioning and improve global environmental sustainability.

Keywords: applied ecology; environmental justice; human dimensions; inequalities; socioecological integration.