Illustrative maps from the University of Redlands’ Environmental Design

Studio: Environmental Justice in the Coachella Valley.

Professors Rusty Weaver and Dan Klooster

Please do not circulate outside of the Environmental Justice Summit planning committee.

Please do ask for latest versions:russell_weaver@redlands.edudaniel_klooster@redlands.edu

BACKGROUND

• The following maps were produced as part of a class at the University of Redlands taught by Professors Rusty Weaver and Dan Klooster

• From the syllabus:“Students in this class will produce the initial cartographic and narrative content for an edited thematic atlas on the topic of environmental justice in the Coachella Valley of Southern California.”

COURSE STRUCTURE

• Textbook: Environmental Justice by Gordon Walker organizing framework

COURSE STRUCTURE

• Five groups, five themes:– Waste– Pesticides– Water– Greenspace– Flooding

• Final output: maps + narratives (content currently being edited by instructors)

DATA SOURCES

• U.S. Census Bureau– TIGER/Line shapefiles (geographic)– 2010 Decennial Census (demographic)– 2008-2012 American Community Survey (social)

• Riverside County– Parcels, Land Use, Administrative Districts, Streets

• CalEnviroscreen– Pesticides, Pollution (by ZIP Code)

• Example maps…

NEXT STEPS

• Editing of maps and text continues– Course instructors will begin synthesizing each group’s

atlas entry in early June– Once the atlas entries are combined, all cartography

and text will be edited by the course instructors• By November, graduate student Joseph Munyao

will develop a website and web application to allow access to these data and create opportunities for dynamic mapping

• Expand the atlas with a new set of undergraduate students in Spring 2015? Update web app?

THANK YOU