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Flanagan: 21st century environmental & climate challenges require an eco-justice approach

Civic-science integrates science knowledge with civic practice but differs from the citizen-science prototype by reframing science as a public good and citizens as both recipients of and actors in policy. Authored by Professor Emerita Constance Flanagan and co-authors Erin Gallay and human ecology alumna Alisa Pykett (PhD 2018)  draw from their studies of a civic-science model in which adolescents (majority African-American) collaborate with teachers and community partners to mitigate an environmental problem in their urban community.

Read the full article at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13676261.2021.1994132