Mitigating Environmental Racism
For this assignment, you will identify and weigh the effectiveness of strategies that serve to mitigate environmental racism and work toward environmental justice.
Tasks:
This part of the Course Project expects you to address aspects of environmental justice by considering the following questions.
1. What has the community done?
2. What have allies from outside the community done?
3. Describe the policies in place at the local, state, or federal level that address environmental racism at the local and national levels.
4. Identify some beginning ideas about how an intervention could occur at the individual and systems level (i.e., micro, mezzo, or macro level).
5. What are the barriers?
6. What has been achieved?
7. What are the failures and setbacks?
8. What recommendations do you have?
Assignment:
Your assignment this week is to write a two-page APA paper (not including cover page and reference page; no abstract required) about the strategies that serve as an intervention to mitigate environmental racism and work toward environmental justice. You will use the guiding questions provided under the Tasks section to organize your paper. Complete a Reference page where you cite sources and/or websites in APA format.
You will be graded based on the rubric below.
Rubric
Week 6: – Mitigating Environmental Racism Grading Rubric
| Week 6: Mitigating Environmental Racism Grading Rubric | ||||
| Criteria | Ratings | Pts | ||
| This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Content
The summary addressed all of the key questions posed in the assignment guidelines. |
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30 pts | ||
| This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Analysis
There is an appropriate analysis and connection from a variety of sources to the stated topic. |
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30 pts | ||
| This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Recommendations
Recommendations are made in a clear and professional manner. |
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20 pts | ||
| This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome APA-Styled Paper and References
The paper is correctly formatted according to APA format. It includes in-text citations and references. |
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10 pts | ||
| This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Grammar, Spelling, and Punctuation
It is free of spelling, grammatical, and punctuation errors. |
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10 pts | ||
| Total Points: 100 |
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