6th Annual State of Environmental Justice in America invites Call for Papers, Posters, and Presentations on the subject “Minority Alternative and Renewable Energy Consortium” at the upcoming 6th Annual State of Environmental Justice in America Conference being organized from April 3 to 5, 2012 at the Doubletree-Hilton Hotel-Crystal City located at 300 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, VA 22202.
Abstracts should offer innovative, theoretical, and practical solutions to improve EJ planning, implementation and problem solving for communities, governments, the private sector and others. The selected abstracts will be used to develop papers, plenary sessions, poster presentations, and panel sessions for the 6thst annual training meeting. Selected abstracts will also have the opportunity to submit manuscripts by July 1, 2012 that will be published as proceedings in a supplement to the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.
The list of research areas include, but are not limited to:
• Title VI Compliance
• Environmental justice impacts of transportation on public health
• Diversity in STEM education, training and employment
• Equitable considerations in developing and implementing a clean energy policy
• Community-scale green energy solutions
• Diversity in Federal energy, environmental and economic initiatives
• Historically Black Colleges and Other Minority Serving Institutions Participation in
• Environmental Justice Activities
• Tribal participation in energy production and environmental protection
• Impact of going green on EJ populations including Black farmers
• Diversity in alternative and renewable energy production
• Environmental justice activities in Federal, state and local governments
• Measuring community attributes
• Impact of going green on EJ populations
• Diversity in environmentalism
• Implications of funding different transportation modes for use by EJ communities
• Confronting Health Disparities
• EJ gap analysis benefits vs. burdens
• Participation of EJ communities in the decision-making process
• Diversity in Federal pipeline preparation
• Smart growth, equity and inclusion
• Climate change and sustainability
• Other
Deadline for submission of abstracts of 500 words is February 15, 2012.
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