91猎奇

Environmental Justice

Building Equity Amid Climate Change

Engaging with partners from around the world and across campus, 91猎奇 researchers find ways to right historical injustices in the environment. From tracking the impacts of transportation policies to monitoring environmental toxins to developing community gardens for education and to combat food deserts, 91猎奇 researchers work to mitigate environmental injustice. Below is a rotating selection of our standout investigators in this area.

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• Selected Publications

  • Cordero, E., Centeno, D., and Todd, A. M. (2020). . PloS One, 15(2).

    Hu, S., Feng, X., Huang, W., Ibrahim, S. A., and Liu, Y. (2020). LWT - Food Science and Technology, 127.

    Rampini, C. (2021). . Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(4).

    Fraleigh, S. H. & Riley, S. R., eds. (2024). . Routledge.

    Rivers, D. Life Outside: Speculative Ecologies, Decolonial Relations. Forthcoming from Duke University Press, 2025.

    Lynch A., Veland, S. (2018). . MIT Press.

• Award Highlights

  • Diao, 鈥淐alifornia Community and Earth-system Integrated Climate Resilience Center (CalCEI CRC)鈥� 鈥� DOE Climate Resilience Center, 2023

    Diao, 鈥淒eveloping Partnership between San Jose State University and DOE Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to Enhance Climate Research Equity and Inclusion鈥� 鈥� DOE, 2022

    Rampini, Alexander, 鈥淩esilient And Equitable Urban Stream Corridors鈥� 鈥� UC Davis, 2023

    Paul, Visintainer, Pizarro and Wilkinson, 鈥淭ransforming Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Through Culturally Sustaining, Active, and Asset-Based Approaches to Introductory Science Courses鈥� 鈥� NSF, 2020

    Visintainer, 鈥淐AREER: Transforming Science Teaching, & Learning in K-12 Schools: Empowering, Teachers & Students as Climate Justice, Action Researchers & Change Agents鈥� 鈥� NSF, 2022

• Affiliates

  • Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center

    Campus Community Garden

    Environmental Resource Center

Featured Faculty

Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science
Climate Change, Science Education, Environment, Governance, Meteorology, Weather
ORCID: 0000-0001-5452-8896

Associate Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science
Climate Impacts and Resilience in California; Clouds and Aerosols in a Changing Climate
ORCID: 0000-0003-0324-0897

Xi Feng
Associate Professor of Nutrition, Food Science, and Packaging
Food Chemistry, Food Quality, Functional Food, Flavor Formation, Functional Components from Foods

Costanza Rampini
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Human Dimensions of Climate Change, Sustainable Water Resources Management, Environmental Justice
ORCID: 0000-0002-8060-4386

Assistant Professor of Humanities
Environmental Humanities, Environmental Justice, Queer Feminist Studies, Decolonial Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Literature, Creative Nonfiction
ORCID: 0000-0002-8124-9208

Shannon Rose Riley
Professor of Humanities
Ecosomatics, Ecophilosophy, Somatics and Trauma, Performance Studies, Performance as Research, Environmental Justice, Critical Whiteness studies, Arts and Healing
ORCID: 0000-0001-8201-9167 

Anne Marie Todd
Dean, College of Social Sciences
Environmental Communication, Climate Change, Environmental Aesthetics, Sense of Place, Sustainability Education, Community Engagement, Integrative Learning
ORCID: 0000-0002-2936-4073

Siri Veland
Assistant Professor of Geology
Transformation, Sustainability, Human-Environment Interactions, Anthropocene, Natural Resource Mgmt., Climate Change, Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge, Food Systems
ORCID: 0000-0003-1500-8729

Tammie Visintainer
Assistant Professor of Teacher Education
Race, Identity, Learning, Science Education, Climate Understanding
ORCID: 0000-0002-6127-2777

Potential collaborators and members of the media may contact us at officeofresearch@sjsu.edu.