Asha Barnes’s scientific contributions

... Many interns were initially quite wary of the five social scientists ("Are you spies?") but became comfortable with them over the course of the summer and even on occasion requested their assistance as relatively neutral observers. After we introduce here the project as a whole, we synthesize several of the major themes that emerged as prominent, though we do not analyze all the abundant data (See Coward, 2020;Haanstad, Robinson, and Webb, 2020;Huggins, Barnes, Blum, Brockman, & Gilot, 2017). ...

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"The Trees Need Water" and the Students Need Authentic Responsibility: Learning Almost-in-the-Wild in a Community-Based Internship

... (Johnston et al., 2020). Similar EJO projects exist for promoting water quality, such as the Bowman Creek Project in South Bend Indiana that was meant to restore a water way in collaboration with community groups, schools, and the University of Notre Dame (Blum et al., 2018). Energy-focused projects created by Empower Kentucky to help small communities transition to a more sustainable way of life are a good example of how energy justice is being addressed by EJOs in states that are largely dependent on coal mining as an economic resource (Carley et al., 2021). ...

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The engineering and scientific challenges of environmental justice organizations in the US: A qualitative study