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.
○ Recent News and Highlights
○ Related Strengths: Social Justice
○ Related Strength: Public Policy
Selected Publications
Cordero, E., Centeno, D., and Todd, A. M. (2020). The role of climate change education on individual lifetime carbon emissions. PloS One, 15(2).
Faas, A. (2023). A Picaresque Critique: The Anthropology of Disasters and Displacement in the Age of Global Warming and Pandemics. Anthropology and Climate Change: From Transformations to World-making Practices. Routledge.
Faas, A. (2024). On (Not) Seeing Like a State: Ethnography and Intertextuality on the Way to Practice. Journal of Disaster Studies 1(1).
Hu, S., Feng, X., Huang, W., Ibrahim, S. A., and Liu, Y. (2020). Effects of drying methods on non-volatile taste components of Stropharia rugoso-annulata mushrooms. LWT - Food Science and Technology, 127.
Rampini, C. (2021). Climate and energy justice along the Brahmaputra River in Northeast India. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(4).
Fraleigh, S. H. & Riley, S. R., eds. (2024). Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages. Routledge.
Rivers, D. Life Outside: Speculative Ecologies, Decolonial Relations. Forthcoming from Duke University Press, 2025.
Lynch A., Veland, S. (2018). Urgency in the Anthropocene. MIT Press.
Award Highlights
Rampini, Alexander, “Resilient And Equitable Urban Stream Corridors” — UC Davis, 2023
Paul, Visintainer, Pizarro and Wilkinson, “Transforming Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Through Culturally Sustaining, Active, and Asset-Based Approaches to Introductory Science Courses” — NSF, 2020
Affiliates
Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center
CSU Council on Ocean Affairs, Science & Technology
Featured Faculty
Eugene Cordero
Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science
Climate Change, Science Education, Environment, Governance, Meteorology, Weather
ORCID: 0000-0001-5452-8896
A.J. Faas
Professor of Anthropology
Disasters, Climate Change, Displacement, Resettlement, Memory, The State, Cooperation,
Reciprocity
ORCID: 0000-0002-8758-5624
Xi Feng
Associate Professor of Nutrition, Food Science, and Packaging
Food Quality, Food Chemistry, Sensory Evaluation, Flavor Formation, Product Development,
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.
