Session: Environmental Justice, Environmental Work, and Resilience Type:Mixed Paper Session
Abstract
Our analysis is a part of a much larger project with several departments throughout the University of Texas at Austin. Our specific goal was to collect and analyze qualitative survey answers about the role that equity and resilience plays for these organizations. Our student team coded the algorithm by reading through roughly 1,400 NGO mission statements and manually classifying the NGOs into five categories based on their focus: water, ecosystems, urbanization, energy, and other. The survey prompted the organizations to define equity and resilience in their own terms. Depending on the 200 responses received for both questions, we further divided the topics into distinct categories to better observe patterns of commitment and understanding to anti-racist work. We are developing an understanding of the kind of environmental work, which centers sustainability from a critical perspective and some of the barriers that may remain against more organizations committing to more equitable practices.
Authors
Alyssa Ramirez, University of Texas
Submitting Author / Primary Presenter
Anya Krishnaswamy, University of Texas at Austin
Co-Presenting Author (this author will co-present the paper at the session)
Jayme Walenta, University of Texas at Austin
Co-Author (this author will not present)
Jessie Yin, University of Texas
Co-Author (this author will not present)
Sara Flynn, University of Texas
Co-Author (this author will not present)
Cammie Moore, University of Texas at austin
Co-Author (this author will not present)