EARLY HEARING DETECTION AND INTERVENTION VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
MARCH 2-5, 2021
(Virtually the same conference, without elevators, airplane tickets, or hotel room keys)
5/25/2021 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | ECOLOGICAL RACISM: SEEKING EQUITY AND JUSTICE VIA SOCIAL AND CULTURAL COMPETENCY | Virtual Platform
ECOLOGICAL RACISM: SEEKING EQUITY AND JUSTICE VIA SOCIAL AND CULTURAL COMPETENCY
While robust research in freshwater science is focused on predicting and assessing ecological integrity, much less attention has focused on the nuanced dynamics of social and cultural integrity in freshwater research. In particular, equity and justice have remained at the periphery of freshwater science research agendas. Ecological racism in freshwater research, restoration, and community engagement is seldom acknowledged due to a lack of representation and decision-making power not equitably afforded to Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian (BILA) people. Ecological racism refers to ecosystems largely occupied and utilized by BILA people that are exploited, extracted, or restored without regard to impacted BILA communities. Consequently, these critical identities and voices are missing from the spaces of Environmental Science. Therefore, there is a need for addressing issues of ecological racism via social and cultural competency. We present approaches to increasing competency, including education and training of rising scholars in freshwater science, that can catalyze change in the field. Just as freshwater ecology recognizes that biological and functional diversity underpins ecological integrity, sustained meaningful effort to advance justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion has the potential to bring integrity to our research community.
- Socio-ecological systems
- Policy
- Inclusivity
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Robin D. López
(), University of California, Berkeley, rdlopez@berkeley.edu;
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Ted Grantham
(), University of California, Berkeley, tgrantham@berkeley.edu;
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Matthew Cover
(), California State University, Stanislaus, mcover@csustan.edu;
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