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Talk by Professor Charisma Acey, UC Berkeley and the Berkeley Food Institute.
In the US, zoning and planning choices have disproportionately exposed low-income and minority neighborhoods to environmental hazards while limiting their access to crucial resources like public green spaces, affordable housing, and fresh food. The City of Jurupa Valley's adoption of an "Environmental Justice Element"—or “EJ element”—in their General Plan, following legal action by the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ), marked a turning point. This local initiative evolved into state law with Senate Bill 1000 (SB 1000) in 2016, requiring cities and counties with "disadvantaged communities" to integrate an environmental justice element into their General Plan. SB 1000 has 9 EJ goals, including promoting food access. With support from the Berkeley Food Institute, Dr. Charisma Acey launched a research project to understand how SB 1000 was implemented across the state, if and how cities and counties incorporated food access into their EJ goals, how local governments engaged community groups in their planning, and how food and EJ efforts can be complementary and codified through local and state policies.
Dr. Charisma Acey is an Associate Professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of City and Regional Planning and serves as Faculty Director of the Berkeley Food Institute (BFI) and Research Director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at UC Berkeley. With a background in humanitarian relief and development projects in Africa and Latin America, her research uses multi-city, mixed-methods to address disparities and solutions for improving access to clean water, safe sanitation, clean air, and disaster resilience in historically disenfranchised communities.
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