Publications - SPARC Environmental Justice Lab - Environmental and Sustainability Studies

Community Presentations:

Kate Magargal, "Drought is diminishing firewood access for Navajo wood haulers," September 21, 2022.

Joyner, L., Yagüe, B., Cachelin, A. A Community-Based Approach to Food Equity & Local Food Systems. Utah Farmers Market Network Community of Practice. October 2021.

Joyner, L., Yagüe, B., Cachelin, A. Resilience, Urban Farms, and COVID-19. Utah Department of Agriculture and Local Food Advisory Council. October 2020.

Joyner, L., Yagüe, B., Cachelin, A. Towards Food Sovereignty in Salt Lake City. Slow Foods Utah Presentation. 2020.

Academic Presentations:

Nicolas Hernandez, “From Ambitious Policies to Burning Battery Banks: Diverse Rhetorics of Puerto Rican Energy Politics”, Conference on Communication and Environment, Harrisonburg, VA, June 2023

Anna Johnson, Piper Christian, Sarah Buening, Kate Magargal. Firewood and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge on Cedar Mesa, UT. University of Utah College of Social and Behavioral Science Student Research Day, Salt Lake City, UT. April 26, 2023.

Nicolas Hernandez, “Landscape of Puerto Rican Energy Politics”, ARSTM Preconference, National Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, LA, November 2022

Danielle Endres, Nicolas Hernandez, & Andrea Feldpausch-Parker, “Nuclear Energy In Puerto Rico: Implications for Energy Democracy,” National Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, LA, November 2022

Danielle Endres, “Nuclear Energy in Puerto Rico: Is It a Pathway to a Just, Equitable, and Democratic Energy Transition?” Tanner Humanities Center Work-In-Progress Talk, College of Humanities, University of Utah, February 24, 2022.

Cachelin, A., Joyner, L., Yagüe, B. Urban Farms, Resilience, and COVID-19: Towards Food Sovereignty in Salt Lake City. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 2021.

Joyner, L., Yagüe, B., Cachelin, A. Syndemics: Exploring Food apartheid and COVID-19 through community-informed praxis in Salt Lake City. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 2021.

Yagüe, B., Joyner, L., Cachelin, A. Urban Food Justice through Community Campus Partnerships: A Case Study in Salt Lake City’s Westside. Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. Spokane, WA. September 2019.

Nicolosi, E. Cachelin, A. The value of community-based research in critical environmental justice pedagogy and practice. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April, 2018.