Ecological Justice Publications
- Research and Teaching Guides
Raphael, C. & Young, S. (Eds.) (2024). Teaching sustainability competencies across the disciplines: A guide for instructors. Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
A guide to teaching the major sustainability competencies (such as systems thinking, futures thinking, and normative thinking), including example learning outcomes, links to syllabi and assignments, and relevant scholarship of teaching and learning.
Raphael, C., & Matsuoka, M. (2024). Ground truths: Community-engaged research for environmental justice. University of California Press – Luminos.
A comprehensive introduction to doing community-engaged research for environmental justice in many fields, including law and policy, community economic development, public health, food justice, urban and regional planning, and conservation. Available open access. Archived recordings of a webinar series based on the book are also available.
Raphael, C. (2019). Engaged scholarship for environmental justice: A guide. Santa Clara, CA: Santa Clara University.
For our 2019 conference, Chad Raphael produced this guide to doing community-based research on environmental justice.
- Enacting Laudato Si’ in Academia
AJCU Laudato Sí’ Commission: Advancing a Shared Agenda for our Common Home (2024)
Chris Bacon co-chaired this Commission formed by the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) to generate bold proposals for advancing environmental justice and sustainability at the 2024 Faith, Justice, & Reconciliation Assembly in Chicago. See the Commission’s white paper, inventory of relevant university activities, and other documents.
Kalkbrenner, L., Benders, A., & Raphael, C. (2024). In review: “Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis.” Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education.
Raphael, C. (2022, Fall). To implement Laudato Sí, we need everyone. Update: E-newsletter of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities.
A summary of resources and examples of how Catholic universities can implement the Laudato Si’ University Pathways toward integral ecology.
Raphael, C., Benders, A., & Kalkbrenner, L. (2022, Dec 11). Implementing the Laudato Si’ University Pathways: To change everything, we need everyone. Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education.
Recommendations to Catholic universities for how to implement the Laudato Si’ University Pathways toward integral ecology.
- Transforming Academia
Raphael, C. (2024). Environmental communication. In T. J. Billard & S. Waisbord (Eds.), Public scholarship in communication studies (pp. 66-82). University of Illinois Press.
An exploration of how environmental communication researchers can take a community-engaged approach to research by informing, consulting, involving, collaborating with, and empowering communities to address environmental justice together.
Raphael, C., Bacon, C. M., & Stewart-Frey, I. (2018). Strengthening engaged scholarship for environmental and social justice, part 1 and part 2. Ecojesuit.
A two-part article about how Jesuits and other academic institutions can lower barriers to community-based research on environmental justice.
Bacon, C.M. (2018) Environmental justice: Historical roots and empowered partnerships to advance research and social change. Explore. Spring. Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education, Santa Clara University.
Links the goals and methods of environmental justice with Jesuit education and participatory research for social change.
Bacon, C. M. (2021/2022). Agroecology and Participatory Action Research for Food and Water Justice in Central America. Promotio Iustitiae, 132, 48-54.
A reflection on how participatory action research and agroecology can advance a Jesuit approach to the university as a social force.
- Thought Leadership on Ecological Justice
Stewart I. T. (in press). Hope needs courageous action: Local-to-local, cross-border community academic partnerships can serve as models for social and ecological transformation, in Stücheli-Herlach, P., Karcher, T. SJ, Einsiedel, S., Haas, T., Irezabal, A., Nayak, A., Rožič, P. SJ, Sanchez Galera, M.D. (Eds.), Making hope possible: On scaling up transdisciplinary scholarship for sustainability. Cham: Springer.
Stewart I. T. (2025). Commentary on democracy at risk and decision making. Invitations. Zurich: Lassalle Institute.
Raphael, C., Matsuoka, M., & Baptista, A. (Eds.) (2024-2025). Special issue: Community-engaged research for environmental justice. Social Sciences.
Stewart I. T. (2021). Overcoming borders and barriers to environmental protection. Mutantia.ch.
Stewart I. T. (2018). Climate change is a major culprit in fires devastating the western U.S. Op-ed carried by 25 publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Tampa Bay Times, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Stewart I. T. (2016). Greening the growing deserts. Explore. Santa Clara CA: Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education.
Stewart, I. T., Bacon, C. M., & Burke, W. D. (2014). The uneven distribution of environmental burdens and benefits in Silicon Valley's backyard. Applied Geography, 55, 266-277.
