Social & Environmental Justice Research
Marginalized populations face disproportionate exposure to a variety of social and environmental injustices, including pollution, extreme heat, housing insecurity and wealth disparities, often based on factors such as race, gender, class, and ability. Both social and environmental justice movements seek to address systemic injustices and promote inclusivity, participation, and empowerment. Research in ESS examines spatial marginalization, precarity, exposure to environmental hazards, indigenous knowledges, land access, and links between social inequities, environmental degradation, and public health. Faculty and students have the option to participate in community-based participatory research to advance knowledge co-production and collaboratively address environmental problems in all communities.
Social & Environmental Justice Faculty
Associate Professor, SPARC Environmental Lab Director
Environmental Justice, Food Justice, Belonging, Critical Participatory Action Research, Eco-Justice Pedagogy
Professor; School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability; Department of Sociology; Environmental Humanities
Professor
Co-Director, Center for Natural and Technological Hazards
Human-environment interactions; Vulnerability; Hazards and Disasters; Environmental Justice; Health Disparities; Climate Change, Water, Wildfire, and Air Pollution
Assistant Professor
Development, Political Ecology, Cultural Anthropology, Critical Geopolitics, Energy Transition, Infrastructure, Tibet & the Himalaya, Southeast Asia, China
Associate Professor of Geography
Political Ecology, Energy and Environmental Governance, Urban Policies, Environmental
Justice, Cultural Geography, Latin America
Assistant Professor; Department of Economics and School of Environment, Society, & Sustainability
Professor of Sociology and ESS
Co-Director, Center for Natural and Technological Hazards
Assistant Professor
Geographic Data Science, Spatiotemporal Computing, Machine Learning, Spatial Epidemiology
Associate Professor
Director, HATER Lab
GIS, Spatial analysis, Geography of Terrorism and Insurgent Activity, Complex Systems in Social and Geographic Spaces
Professor
Geomorphology, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Geoarchaeology, Arid Lands, Petroleum Geology
Associate Professor Director, Utah Geo-Health Lab
Director, MSGIS program
GIS and Spatial Methods in Understanding and Solving Environmental Health Problems
Professor
Director, Urban and Sustainability Research Lab (USRL)
Economic/Urban Geography; Global, Urban, and Regional Development; Regional Science and Spatial Analysis, China