Community-Engaged Research for Environmental Justice
Role
Chad Raphael (Special Issue Editor)
Martha Matsuoka (Special Issue Editor)
Ana Isabel Baptista (Special Issue Editor)
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Description
Community-engaged research (CER) advances environmental justice by centering the local knowledge and concerns of frontline communities in the research agenda, creating equitable and mutually beneficial relationships between these communities and professional researchers, and co-producing actionable data that can influence policies and practices. This Special Issue welcomed empirical and conceptual articles on environmental justice that employ any CER approach, including participatory action research, community-based participatory research, citizen science and community science, and Indigenous-led and decolonial research. This research involved collaborations with community organizations and advocates by academic and other professional researchers, and/or government agencies. The editors were especially interested in CER that recognizes the intersectional roots of environmental injustices in colonialism, racism, economic exploitation and patriarchy, and that can inform policy and practical responses to urgent issues of environmental justice. For open-access, full-text versions of all articles in the issue, see https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/4RMVUHAVCB
Publication Date
1-2025
Publisher
MDPI
Keywords
community-engaged research, participatory research, citizen science, community science, environmental justice, environmental racism, climate justice, decolonization
Disciplines
Sustainability
Recommended Citation
Raphael, Chad; Matsuoka, Martha; and Baptista, Ana Isabel, "Community-Engaged Research for Environmental Justice" (2025). Faculty Book Gallery. 658.
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/faculty_books/658
Comments
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Community and Urban Sociology".
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