A&M-SA Research Guides: Environmental Justice Research Guide: Welcome & Finding Articles

Welcome

Welcome to the Environmental Justice Research Guide! This research guide is designed to introduce researchers to the resources available, including books, articles, and primary sources. This guide does not include all of the materials on Environmental Justice, but is intended to provide a starting point for research.

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Newspaper Articles

Nexis Uni (LexisNexis)
Use this database to search through more than 15,000 sources for U.S. and world news. Look up legal cases including U.S. Supreme Court decisions as old as 1790, find company information, state profiles, legal reviews, state legal research and more.
Global Newsstream (ProQuest)
Find international, national, and regional newspapers including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Guardian, El Norte, and South China Morning Post. Search by company, geographic area, products, people, or subject.
Included:
New York Times All Access Digital Pass (The New York Times Company)
Search and browse The New York Times from 1851-present. Users must go through the library’s link to register for an account. Once registered, an account is valid for one year and may be used to access The New York Times website directly.
Creating an Account with the New York Times:

On the New York Times page, click on the Create Account link.
You must use your university email when registering. For example:
- John.Doe@jaguar.tamu.edu for students.
- jdoe@tamusa.edu for faculty and staff.
You will have access to the New York Times for one year.
Questions? Call the University Library at 210-784-1500.
Access World News (NewsBank)
Research diverse perspectives, topics and trends that align with curricular areas such as Political Science, English, Sociology, Humanities, Business, International Studies and more. Features reliable, credible information from a wide variety of international, national and local news sources. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device.

Suggested Journals

Below are a few individual journal titles that pertain to Environmental Justice. For more information about each journal, hover over the 'i' icon for a brief description.

Environmental Practice Environmental Practice provides a multidisciplinary forum for authoritative discussion and analysis of issues of wide interest to the international community of environmental professionals, with the intent of developing innovative solutions to environmental problems for public policy implementation, professional practice, or both. Peer-reviewed original research papers, environmental reviews, and commentaries, along with news articles, book reviews, and points of view, link findings in science and technology with issues of public policy, health, environmental quality, law, political economy, management, and the appropriate standards for expertise.
Environmental Politics Environmental Politics is an international, inter-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal, which provides a forum for the publication of original research into, and discussion and analysis of, the diverse theoretical and empirical aspects of environmental politics. It is primarily concerned with scholarship in political science, political sociology, and political theory, focusing on: Green parties and environmental social movements and NGOs; the definition, negotiation, and implementation of environmental policy; and environmental political thought, examining the ideas generated by environmental groups and organizations that underpin policy interventions of all kinds, and providing a venue for the critical and normative theoretical examination of environmental concerns.
American Journal of Sociology American Journal of Sociology (AJS) remains a leading voice for analysis and research in the social sciences. The journal presents pathbreaking work from all areas of sociology, with an emphasis on theory building and innovative methods. AJS strives to speak to the general sociological reader and is open to sociologically informed contributions from anthropologists, statisticians, economists, educators, historians, and political scientists. AJS prizes research that offers new ways of understanding the social.
Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability refereed journal written by and for researchers, activists, non-governmental organizations, students, teachers, policy makers and practitioners. It focuses on sustainability planning, policy and politics in relation to theoretical, conceptual and empirical studies at the nexus of justice and the environment.
Environmental Sociology Environmental Sociology is dedicated to applying and advancing the sociological imagination in relation to a wide variety of environmental challenges, controversies and issues, at every level from the global to local, from ‘world culture’ to diverse local perspectives. As an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Environmental Sociology aims to stretch the conceptual and theoretical boundaries of both environmental and mainstream sociology, to highlight the relevance of sociological research for environmental policy and management, to disseminate the results of sociological research, and to engage in productive dialogue and debate with other disciplines in the social, natural and ecological sciences.
Social Forces An international journal of social research that publishes articles, commentary, book reviews and lists of recently published books on all areas of social sciences.

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Environmental Justice Research Guide

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Suggested Databases for Topic

Newspaper Articles

Suggested Journals

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