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The Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment 30th Annual Symposium


Breathing Easier: Air Pollution Challenges and Solutions

“Moreover, Salt Lake City is an easy town to know.  You can see it all.  Lying in a great bowl valley, it can be surmounted and comprehended and possessed wholly as few cities can.”

From  “At Home in the Fields of the Lord”  in The Sound of Mountain Water.

Curriculum Connection

Science: Weather and Atmosphere
Respiratory system and lung disease
Health: Environmental risk factors and risk burdens
Geography: The geography of air pollution
Social Studies: Redlining and environmental justice
Political Science: Air pollution policy/ Zoning and Housing Policy
Language Arts: Utah Literature

Pairs well with

The Sound of Mountain Water by Wallace Stegner
The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
Recapitulation by Wallace Stegner
Weather Underground with Air Pollution Map
EPA Air Data - Multiyear Tile Plot
Not Even Past:  Social Vulnerability and the Legacy of Redlining
Mapping Inequality
Climate at a Glance

 

The Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment 31st Annual Symposium


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