Keep Up with the Latest Research!
This is a non-comprehensive list of current research happening at Duke in different areas of environmental Justice. To get more information, visit the lab or organization's website page.
Catherine Coleman Flowers Working with Duke University
"Since 2015, Catherine Coleman Flowers, founder of the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise (ACRE), has partnered with the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Nicholas School of the Environment to find solutions for the lack of wastewater infrastructure in Lowndes County, Alabama. Flowers is the Practitioner-in-Residence at the Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and works with teams of students, faculty and staff to address the legal, political, and technological issues associated with this problem."
The Environmental Justice Lab
The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions is home to incredible research happening now in then environmental justice space. Visit their page to learn more about current issues, publications, events, and news in environmental justice.
"With the Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, the State Policy Program has initiated three environmental justice research community-building projects. The first brings environmental justice experts to Duke to present research in progress and is intended to build momentum for the second project, an interdisciplinary workshop on environmental justice. The third project is a collaboration with a local Durham, North Carolina, group—Communities in Partnership—the University of North Carolina, and North Carolina State that is aimed at understanding and addressing environmental justice issues in the Old East Durham neighborhood."