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Giovanna Di Chiro is Director of Environmental Programs at Nuestras Raíces, Inc. and Research Associate at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center. She has published widely on the intersections of race, gender, and environmental justice with a focus on women's activism and policy change addressing environmental health disparities in lower income communities. She is completing a book Embodied Ecologies: Science, Politics, and Environmental Justice. Her current work examines environmental justice activists’ reframing of the climate change debate to focus on the local, bodily impacts of wide-scale environmental problems like global warming. Giovanna collaborates with environmental justice organizations to conduct community-based research on environmental health concerns and on developing culturally relevant sustainability initiatives.
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Statement released by La Vía Campesina, Cancún, Mexico, 9 December 2010. Available at: www.viacampesina.org.
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Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice, http://reproductivejustice.org/.
Looking Both Ways: Women's Lives at the Crossroads of Reproductive Justice and Climate Justice, http://reproductivejustice.org/assets/docs/ACRJ-MS5-Looking-Both-Ways.pdf.
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Di Chiro, G. Acting Globally: Cultivating a thousand community solutions for climate justice. Development 54, 232–236 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2011.5
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