School Environment
Determined by the EPA, this is a set of guidelines used by school districts and governments to determine the location for new schools
What is school siting policy?
Type of community with 25% low income, 50% as non-white, and 15% limited English proficiency
What is underserved communities?
Environmental stressors
What are air/water pollution, dilapidated housing, noise, crowding?
Areas with limited access to supermarkets or sources of healthy and affordable food.
What are food deserts?
Guest lecturer who discussed food access and urban agriculture from UMD's dept. of plant science and landscape architecture
Prof Sherry Russell
These two groups disproportionately attend schools with higher air pollution burdens
Who are students of color and students of low-income households?
This type pf justice refers to the equal participation of ALL people in environmental decision-making
What is Procedural Justice?
Environmental amenities
What are clean air and water, parks, trees/lakes, nice views?
USDA uses these TWO qualifiers to determine if an area is a food dessert
What are low income (poverty) & low access (vehicle and transportation)?
The activity of growing plants and raising animals in and around urban areas
What is urban agriculture?
As pollution levels around schools increase, this academic outcome also increases
What are students failing standardized testing?
This type pf justice refers to the equitable distribution of environmental benefits and burdens
What is distributive justice?
More trees relate to higher or lower test scores?
What are higher test scores?
These two Maryland counties have the highest concentration of food desserts
What is Baltimore and Somerset?
Gardens created without permission on unused land.
What is guerrilla gardening?
This type pf justice refers to the fair punishment and compensation for environmental injustice
What is corrective justice?
A study showed that these types of students have more trees in their schools
What are white and non-hispanic students?
What are personal gardens, community-scale landscapes, and urban farms / market gardens?