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Nicaragua Canal

A new canal in Nicaragua will be built under the agreement of the Nicaragua government and Chinese businessman Wang Jing, with his company HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Company (HKND). The project is intended to lift the poor country out of poverty, just as what the Panama Canal has done to its residents, but its construction may ruin the ecosystem of Central America. Besides, there are more potential issues like political tensions, exaggerated construction speed and ambiguous finance etc

Guoyang2023-09-10T04:10:20+00:00June 16, 2023|Categories: Case Summary|Tags: Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Geotechnical Engineering, Hydraulics and Hydrological Engineering|0 Comments

Geotechnical Risk Assessment and Environmental Justice

This study analyzes a number of geotechnical risk assessment reports, and addresses how well they deal with the core principles and themes of environmental justice. The findings are rather lackluster, however the paper also gives a number of possible reasons why this might be the case.

Guoyang2023-09-10T06:11:35+00:00June 16, 2023|Categories: Case Summary|Tags: Earth Systems, Geotechnical Engineering|0 Comments

Black Lives Matter in Engineering, Too! An Environmental Justice Approach Towards Equitable Decision-Making for Stormwater Management in African American Communities

This dissertation details the stormwater management practices and history in East Tampa, and uses them as a framework to address stormwater management on a larger level. It goes into detail about East Tampa, although it also mentions a number of other places, and does so by approaching the subject of stormwater management through a lens influenced by both environmental justice and critical race theory.

Guoyang2023-09-10T03:27:01+00:00June 16, 2023|Categories: Case Summary|Tags: Construction Engineering and Management, Earth Systems, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Environmental Policy and Sustainable Infrastructure, Water Quality and Health|0 Comments

Syracuse I‑81 Removal

Syracuse's 1.4-mile stretch of the I-81, which is raised above the city and cuts through downtown, is posed for a new transition. While once displacing disadvantaged communities, officials have drafted plans to tear down the crumbling interstate and create a street-level grid to repair broken communities and create a revitalized urban core. The project is currently paused due to lawsuits from local groups questioning the impacts of such a decision and if it will really improve the area or cause more generational impacts.

Guoyang2023-09-10T05:17:50+00:00June 16, 2023|Categories: Case Summary|Tags: Construction Engineering and Management, Environmental Policy and Sustainable Infrastructure, Transportation Engineering|0 Comments

New Jersey Environmental Justice Law Forces Contaminated Site Cleanup

New Jersey's Environmental Justice Law helps protect underrepresented and disadvantaged communities from environmental impacts by limiting industrial and waste facilities in those communities. Additionally, greater attention has been focused on cleaning up contaminated waste sites and holding those accountable for polluting these communities.

Guoyang2023-09-10T04:08:32+00:00June 16, 2023|Categories: Case Summary|Tags: Environmental Engineering, Environmental Policy and Sustainable Infrastructure|0 Comments

Environmental Justice and the Politics of Risk: Water Resource Controversies in Taiwan

The Taiwanese government attempted to construct a water diversion in the early 2000s in order to help mitigate potential effects of future droughts. While both environmental scientists and local indigenous groups argued against the building of it due to the potential for it to destabilize the area it was being built geologically, the project continued until Typhoon Morakot in 2009 suspended its construction indefinitely.

Guoyang2023-09-10T03:46:15+00:00June 16, 2023|Categories: Case Summary|Tags: Construction Engineering and Management, Earth Systems, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Policy and Sustainable Infrastructure, Geotechnical Engineering|0 Comments

Urban IFL Projects

Urban Integrated Field Laboratories are to be constructed in three U.S. cities through funding by the Department of Energy. These Urban IFL projects will aim to better understand the climate challenges affecting the designated areas and how to address climate adaptations while taking into account groups that have historically been underrepresented.

Guoyang2023-09-10T05:59:50+00:00June 16, 2023|Categories: Case Summary|Tags: Earth Systems, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Policy and Sustainable Infrastructure|0 Comments

Safer Bike Routes in D.C. to Improve Children Health Inequities

In recent years, D.C. has added extensive bike paths to increase cycling safety and cycling options to allow children to bike to school to increase physical activity. Lack of physical activity is a concern in the D.C. school area that serves underrepresented communities whose students may not be able to participate in extracurricular sports. The addition of bike paths can help decrease air pollution and offer a chance to decrease child health inequities in the community.

Guoyang2023-09-10T04:54:58+00:00June 16, 2023|Categories: Case Summary|Tags: Construction Engineering and Management, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Policy and Sustainable Infrastructure, Transportation Engineering|0 Comments

South Wake Landfill in Holly Springs

In the early 90's, the town of Holly Springs was predominantly African American, and was chosen for a site for a landfill to be built. Over time, the area shifted demographics until it was predominantly white, at which time the permit for the site was issued, denied, and re-issued. This is in spite of the fact that there appeared to be no such concerns when the area was predominantly African American.

Guoyang2023-09-10T06:05:38+00:00June 16, 2023|Categories: Case Summary|Tags: Construction Engineering and Management, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Policy and Sustainable Infrastructure, Water Quality and Health|0 Comments

Valley Park Levee along the Meramec River

In recent years, the Meramec River has been experiencing historic flooding that may be exacerbated by the Valley Park levee that was built by the Army Corps of Engineers and protects an affluent community. Nearby communities who are less fortunate, experience frequent flooding where homes are routinely lost and rebuilt at the expense of lack of flood management in the area and the nearby levee being built on outdated models.

Guoyang2023-09-10T06:01:14+00:00June 16, 2023|Categories: Case Summary|Tags: Environmental Engineering, Hydraulics and Hydrological Engineering|0 Comments