These are the final projects for two different courses at UC Irvine, “Global Environmental Justice” and “Drug Wars Americas.” In each respective course students were asked to research a topic of interest, apply course readings and explore the geography of their chosen topic.

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Abandoned by Justice: The toxic legacy of the Bluestone Coke’s coal coking plant in Birmingham

Bukele’s Iron Fist: El Salvador’s Crackdown on Crime

The Lumad, Invisible People of the Philippines: Resistance to Deforestation and Mining in Mindanao by Local Indigenous Communities