Directions:

Revise all short assignments and combine them into a single, organized research paper. The paper should be approximately 3,000 words in length. To earn full credit, you must include the following:

Please Focus on the Barrio Logan Community of San Diego, California, and nowhere else.

An abstract of the project
An introduction with thesis and roadmap that covers the major arguments in the paper
Introduce the research location and relevant demographics
Focus on the problem of the climate crisis you are writing about. The problem that needs to be focused on is how Climate Change impacts the Barrio Logan community specifically.
Define the problem with evidence and research
Define the seriousness of the problem you are researching
What policy recommendations are you making for your research location
Subsections in the Body of your Project might include:
Public Health Consequences
Go deeper into the problem of consequences – how will people in your region be affected by climate change?
Climate Injustice
Who will be harmed most by climate change in your region? How will they be harmed?
Are these harms unfairly distributed?
Climate Justice
How is this defined? What does this mean?
Organizations working to address climate injustice in your region: For this area please only focus on an organization named the Environmental Health Coalition. They have a lot of data and information on the Barrio Logan Community.
Who are the groups working for climate justice?
What are their policy recommendations? Goals? Mission? Aims?
What is their timeline for achieving these goals?
Your Policy Recommendations
What solutions are most needed to address the climate crisis in your region by 2030? By 2050?
What climate justice policies do you recommend, if any?
Why? What reasoning and evidence can you provide to justify these policies? Please integrate some of the recommendations from the Environmental Health Coalition into some of your own recommendations
Consistently formatted subheadings throughout the paper that clearly signal section breaks
If necessary, charts, graphs or other visual images that can enhance your analysis, arguments and evidence (they must be cited)
A conclusion that summarizes your findings