Environmental Advocacy

The Urban Ecological Center was established to provide outdoor education to young people in our city. And most of our energy and resources are used for this important work. Through demonstration of education and our own environmental management, we can assert our environment and act, but we must do more and more from time to time. The following recent example shows how the center takes action.

The center, the founding member of the Milwaukee River Green Way Alliance, works with other groups specializing in the protection and protection of the 800-acre Greenway River Greenway. Land along the Milwaukee River from North Street to Silver Spring is a scarce natural area that has not been protected until recently and it may impair the natural quality of the resources of this community. Due to the activities of the alliance, this area is still protected by zoning to confirm that it is still an oasis of Milwaukee citizen.

In 2007, the Urban Ecology Center joined the Rotary Community Club contest and founded the Rotary club Centennial Botanic Gardens by expanding and diversifying plant communities to improve the natural area of ​​Riverside Park. This project will outline the thousands of conventional trees, shrubs, plants planted in a 40-acre vast riverbed park. Through these cultivations, the native flora exists in a quantitative amount and will be reintroduced into 800 acre breedable populations in the Milwaukee Basin. When the Rotary club picks this project as a winner, the center is honored.

In communities where economic and socio-political power is weak, it is often that the funds to participate in environmental protection are lacking. Environmental history is increasingly emphasizing the way the middle class environmental movement is behind the community lagging behind. Interdisciplinary research now understands historical inequality as a shot to predict future social development in the environmental field, especially in the context of climate change. The United Nations Economic and Social Affairs Bureau warned that global warming exacerbates environmental and other inequalities, especially in the following areas: (a) increased risk of vulnerable groups that adversely affect climate change, and (b ) Damage caused by an increase in vulnerability to climate, and (c) ability to respond to and recover from the damage.

Advocacy affects public policy in the social, economic, political and cultural fields, bringing justice and positive change to human rights and environmental problems. Protection of the environment includes both defending the public from risking the environment and protecting the natural world. Advocates organize groups based on causes and work to carry out sustained and positive impact changes. For example, a community group with supporters (leaders) can educate citizens to help the state legislature and pass public health bills.

On the global scale, environmental justice is an important pillar of environmental protection and policy, from indigenous rights to gender equality and climate justice. In recent years, parallel views emerged in the context of laws and policies - environmental human rights. Both the concept of environmental justice and human rights constitute the fastest growing theme of environmental public policy, law and advocacy. The purpose of this high level exit seminar is to provide students with a comprehensive and comprehensive understanding of issues and subjects that constitute a global debate about environmental justice and human rights. Focus is to read and master the conceptual and philosophical basis of legal and policy thought on justice, human rights, and the environment.