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In this week\u2019s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Jimena Gonz\xe1lez Ram\xedrez, an associate professor at Manhattan College, and Sarah Jacobson, a professor at Williams College. Gonz\xe1lez Ram\xedrez and Jacobson discuss some ways that systemic racism can unintentionally permeate research in the field of environmental and natural resource economics. They consider how historically racist policies and practices can affect research data and analysis and, in turn, produce findings which may render outcomes that discriminate. Specifically, the scholars identify several contributing issues: the prioritization of cost-effectiveness; inattention to procedural justice; abstraction from social and historical context; and a focus on problems that are easier, rather than more important, to solve. A recent Common Resources article by Gonz\xe1lez Ram\xedrez, Jacobson, and other coauthors delves into even more of the details that their conversation here doesn\u2019t cover.\n\nReferences and recommendations:\n\n\u201cLooking at Environmental and Natural Resource Economics through the Lens of Racial Equity\u201d by Amy Ando, Titus Awokuse, Jimena Gonz\xe1lez Ram\xedrez, Sumeet Gulati, Sarah Jacobson, Dale Manning, Samuel Stolper, and Matt Fleck; https://www.resources.org/common-resources/looking-at-environmental-and-natural-resource-economics-through-the-lens-of-racial-equity/\n\n\u201cAchieving environmental justice: A cross-national analysis\u201d by Karen Bell; https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qgzvd\n\n\u201cSensing Air Pollution Exposure in New York City Schools, with Beia Spiller\u201d podcast episode; https://www.resources.org/resources-radio/sensing-air-pollution-exposure-in-new-york-city-schools-with-beia-spiller/\n \nWork on waste sanitation infrastructure from Catherine Coleman Flowers; https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2020/catherine-coleman-flowers\n\n\u201cAn Immense World\u201d by Ed Yong; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/616914/an-immense-world-by-ed-yong/\n\n\u201cSolito: A Memoir\u201d by Javier Zamora; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705626/solito-by-javier-zamora/\n\n\u201cCan we talk to whales?\u201d by Elizabeth Kolbert; https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/11/can-we-talk-to-whales