ENVS 203: Environmental Humanities (HC) Spring 2025

You can approach environmental justice from a variety of perspectives--including those from the humanities, social sciences, and hard sciences.

Let's say you want to find literature on environmental justice from a psychology perspective; specically:

You're interested in the role of environmental activism in emotional healing, particularly for those communities most affected by environmental trauma.

Step 1: Break up this idea into two or three main concepts. Ignore extraneous words.

• Concept #1: environmental activism
• Concept #2: emotional healing

Step 2: Conduct an initial search with these words, and quickly scan the results. 

Step 3: Using information from your initial search, add synonyms, acronyms, and variant spellings.

• Concept #1: environmental activism, environmental justice
• Concept #2: emotional healing, environmental psychology

• AND gives you results that include ALL of the words connected by the word 'AND'
• OR gives you results that include ANY of the words connected by the word 'OR'.
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• Essentially you are searching: 
  ("environmental activism" OR "environmental justice") AND ("emotional healing" OR "environmental psychology")

You want to write about environmental justice in a way that leverages psychological principles.

"science communication" AND "environmental psychology"