School of Climate Change and Blue Economy Social Work (BLU) / : Environmental Justice and Human Rights in Climate Practice
: Environmental Justice and Human Rights in Climate Practice
Course Three grounds the BLU certificate's technical climate and disaster content in a rights-based, environmental justice framework, directly relevant to a region where decades of oil and gas extraction have produced well-documented, unevenly distributed environmental harm alongside emerging climat
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Learning objectives
31. Define environmental justice and distinguish distributive, procedural, and recognition dimensions of environmental justice.
32. Apply a basic human rights framework (right to a healthy environment, right to information, right to participation) to a described environmental harm scenario.
33. Analyse how the benefits and burdens of extractive industry and climate change are distributed within a specific community.
34. Identify appropriate, safe, rights-respecting advocacy approaches for communities affected by environmental harm.
35. Recognise the limits of a social work practitioner's role in formal legal or human rights advocacy and identify when specialist legal referral is required.