Environmental Justice
Building Equity Amid Climate Change
Engaging with partners from around the world and across campus, SJSU researchers find ways to right historical injustices in the environment. From tracking the impacts of transportation policies to monitoring environmental toxins to developing community gardens for education and to combat food deserts, SJSU researchers work to mitigate environmental injustice. Below is a rotating selection of our standout investigators in this area.
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Featured Faculty
Eugene Cordero
Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science
Climate Change, Science Education, Environment, Governance, Meteorology, Weather
ORCID: 0000-0001-5452-8896
Minghui Diao
Associate Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science
Climate Impacts and Resilience in California; Clouds and Aerosols in a Changing Climate
ORCID: 0000-0003-0324-0897
Xi Feng
Associate Professor of Nutrition, Food Science, and Packaging
Food Chemistry, Food Quality, Functional Food, Flavor Formation, Functional Components
from Foods
Costanza Rampini
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Human Dimensions of Climate Change, Sustainable Water Resources Management, Environmental
Justice
ORCID: 0000-0002-8060-4386
Daniel Lanza Rivers
Assistant Professor of Humanities
Environmental Humanities, Environmental Justice, Queer Feminist Studies, Decolonial
Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Literature, Creative Nonfiction
ORCID: 0000-0002-8124-9208
Shannon Rose Riley
Professor of Humanities
Ecosomatics, Ecophilosophy, Somatics and Trauma, Performance Studies, Performance
as Research, Environmental Justice, Critical Whiteness studies, Arts and Healing
ORCID: 0000-0001-8201-9167
Anne Marie Todd
Dean, College of Social Sciences
Environmental Communication, Climate Change, Environmental Aesthetics, Sense of Place,
Sustainability Education, Community Engagement, Integrative Learning
ORCID: 0000-0002-2936-4073
Siri Veland
Assistant Professor of Geology
Transformation, Sustainability, Human-Environment Interactions, Anthropocene, Natural
Resource Mgmt., Climate Change, Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge, Food Systems
ORCID: 0000-0003-1500-8729
Tammie Visintainer
Assistant Professor of Teacher Education
Race, Identity, Learning, Science Education, Climate Understanding
ORCID: 0000-0002-6127-2777
Potential collaborators and members of the media may contact us at officeofresearch@sjsu.edu.