Tania M Schusler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4469729 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tania M Schusler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tania M |
| FAMILY NAME | Schusler |
| SIGNATURE | SCHUSLER T M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5612-3179 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 150 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Building undergraduate STEM identity, confidence and skills through prosocial research: The community air research experience
The Community Air Research Experience (CARE) was a National Science Foundation funded project led by Loyola University Chicago in collaboration with Colorado State University, the Edgewater Environmental Coalition, and the Southeast Environmental Task Force. CARE established a geosciences learning ecosystem aimed at building undergraduate students’ STEM interest, research skills, and familiarity with geosciences careers. Through CARE, 16 students…
Practitioners’ perspectives on preventing environmental gentrification
Pollution cleanup, green space creation, and other improvements to environmental quality in cities are important to urban sustainability. However, because they occur within a political economic context characterized by structural racism, urban greening initiatives can intentionally or unintentionally reproduce racial, economic, and social inequities through environmental gentrification. We explored possibilities for improving environmental qualit…
Experiences with environmental gentrification: Evidence from Chicago
Environmental contamination and limited access to green spaces disproportionately burden communities of color with negative impacts on residents’ health. Yet, cleaning up contamination and creating green spaces has in some cases been associated with displacing long-term residents as the neighborhood becomes desirable to more affluent, often Whiter, populations through environmental gentrification. We used mixed methods to investigate environmenta…
Building STEM pathways for students of color to natural resources careers: The Northern New Mexico Climate Change Corps
Who Benefits From Brownfield Cleanup and Gentrification? Evidence From Chicago
This paper presents research on the distribution of economic benefits from brownfield cleanup and land development. There is growing concern that cleaning up blighted areas, including brownfields, can entrench inequality by disproportionately benefiting some demographic groups more than others. We look for evidence of disproportionate benefits by relating changes in move decisions to land use activity in Chicago using a heterogeneous sorting mode…
Students of colour views on racial equity in environmental sustainability
Equity in sustainable development: Community responses to environmental gentrification
Sustainable development aims to address economic, social, and environmental imperatives; yet, in practice, it often embodies a neoliberal market logic that reinforces inequalities. Thus, as the social work profession grapples with its role in advancing environmental sustainability, practice models must explicitly attend to social and economic justice. For example, environmental gentrification refers to situations in which the cleanup of contamina…
Integrating youth participation and ecosocial work: New possibilities to advance environmental and social justice
This article reveals possibilities to expand the role of youth within ecosocial work practice. The Where I Stand Youth Summit held in Chicago, Illinois, provided a safe space for young people to reflect upon their understanding of, and roles within, social and environmental justice movements. Drawing upon critical youth empowerment theory and participant observation, we note that youth shared experiences of oppression across unique social identit…
Environmental engagement among Latinos: An exploratory study of environmentalists in the greater Chicago area
The autonomy-authority duality of shared decision-making in youth environmental action
While environmental action is recognized as an effective approach for developing young people’s capabilities as citizens and contributing to environmental improvements, little research has addressed how adults facilitate youth action projects. Environmental action involves a partnership among youth and adults characterized by shared decision-making. We sought insights into the adult experience of shared decision-making through phenomenological in…
Developing citizens and communities through youth environmental action
Although several studies have examined learning outcomes of environmental action experiences for youth, little is known about the aims motivating practitioners to involve youth in action creating positive environmental and social change, nor how practitioners perceive success. This research explored through phenomenological interviews practitioners’ purposes for using an environmental action approach. Practitioners in this inquiry, who engaged yo…
Social Learning for Collaborative Natural Resource Management
This article contributes to understanding about the potential and limitations of social learning for collaborative natural resource management. Participants in a deliberative planning process involving a state agency and local communities developed common purpose and collaborative relationships, two requisites of comanagement. Eight process characteristics fostered social learning: open communication, diverse participation, unrestrained thinking,…
Community‐based comanagement: Sharing responsibility when tolerance for wildlife is exceeded
A key question in considering wildlife stakeholder acceptance capacity (WSAC) is scale of the problem or opportunity for which WSAC is a concern. Experience indicates that human communities, typically delineated by named places, usually are the relevant scale. This level of human organization seems to be where wildlife issues, especially problems in human‐wildlife interaction, are articulated. Communities can define where and when wildlife tolera…
Social Learning for Collaborative Natural Resource Management
This article contributes to understanding about the potential and limitations of social learning for collaborative natural resource management. Participants in a deliberative planning process involving a state agency and local communities developed common purpose and collaborative relationships, two requisites of comanagement. Eight process characteristics fostered social learning: open communication, diverse participation, unrestrained thinking,…
Integrating youth participation and ecosocial work: New possibilities to advance environmental and social justice
This article reveals possibilities to expand the role of youth within ecosocial work practice. The Where I Stand Youth Summit held in Chicago, Illinois, provided a safe space for young people to reflect upon their understanding of, and roles within, social and environmental justice movements. Drawing upon critical youth empowerment theory and participant observation, we note that youth shared experiences of oppression across unique social identit…
Who Benefits From Brownfield Cleanup and Gentrification? Evidence From Chicago
This paper presents research on the distribution of economic benefits from brownfield cleanup and land development. There is growing concern that cleaning up blighted areas, including brownfields, can entrench inequality by disproportionately benefiting some demographic groups more than others. We look for evidence of disproportionate benefits by relating changes in move decisions to land use activity in Chicago using a heterogeneous sorting mode…
Developing citizens and communities through youth environmental action
Although several studies have examined learning outcomes of environmental action experiences for youth, little is known about the aims motivating practitioners to involve youth in action creating positive environmental and social change, nor how practitioners perceive success. This research explored through phenomenological interviews practitioners’ purposes for using an environmental action approach. Practitioners in this inquiry, who engaged yo…
Equity in sustainable development: Community responses to environmental gentrification
Sustainable development aims to address economic, social, and environmental imperatives; yet, in practice, it often embodies a neoliberal market logic that reinforces inequalities. Thus, as the social work profession grapples with its role in advancing environmental sustainability, practice models must explicitly attend to social and economic justice. For example, environmental gentrification refers to situations in which the cleanup of contamina…
The autonomy-authority duality of shared decision-making in youth environmental action
While environmental action is recognized as an effective approach for developing young people’s capabilities as citizens and contributing to environmental improvements, little research has addressed how adults facilitate youth action projects. Environmental action involves a partnership among youth and adults characterized by shared decision-making. We sought insights into the adult experience of shared decision-making through phenomenological in…
Community‐based comanagement: Sharing responsibility when tolerance for wildlife is exceeded
A key question in considering wildlife stakeholder acceptance capacity (WSAC) is scale of the problem or opportunity for which WSAC is a concern. Experience indicates that human communities, typically delineated by named places, usually are the relevant scale. This level of human organization seems to be where wildlife issues, especially problems in human‐wildlife interaction, are articulated. Communities can define where and when wildlife tolera…
Social Learning for Collaborative Natural Resource Management
This article contributes to understanding about the potential and limitations of social learning for collaborative natural resource management. Participants in a deliberative planning process involving a state agency and local communities developed common purpose and collaborative relationships, two requisites of comanagement. Eight process characteristics fostered social learning: open communication, diverse participation, unrestrained thinking,…
Developing citizens and communities through youth environmental action
Although several studies have examined learning outcomes of environmental action experiences for youth, little is known about the aims motivating practitioners to involve youth in action creating positive environmental and social change, nor how practitioners perceive success. This research explored through phenomenological interviews practitioners’ purposes for using an environmental action approach. Practitioners in this inquiry, who engaged yo…
The autonomy-authority duality of shared decision-making in youth environmental action
While environmental action is recognized as an effective approach for developing young people’s capabilities as citizens and contributing to environmental improvements, little research has addressed how adults facilitate youth action projects. Environmental action involves a partnership among youth and adults characterized by shared decision-making. We sought insights into the adult experience of shared decision-making through phenomenological in…
Environmental engagement among Latinos: An exploratory study of environmentalists in the greater Chicago area
Integrating youth participation and ecosocial work: New possibilities to advance environmental and social justice
This article reveals possibilities to expand the role of youth within ecosocial work practice. The Where I Stand Youth Summit held in Chicago, Illinois, provided a safe space for young people to reflect upon their understanding of, and roles within, social and environmental justice movements. Drawing upon critical youth empowerment theory and participant observation, we note that youth shared experiences of oppression across unique social identit…
Equity in sustainable development: Community responses to environmental gentrification
Sustainable development aims to address economic, social, and environmental imperatives; yet, in practice, it often embodies a neoliberal market logic that reinforces inequalities. Thus, as the social work profession grapples with its role in advancing environmental sustainability, practice models must explicitly attend to social and economic justice. For example, environmental gentrification refers to situations in which the cleanup of contamina…
Students of colour views on racial equity in environmental sustainability
Building STEM pathways for students of color to natural resources careers: The Northern New Mexico Climate Change Corps
Who Benefits From Brownfield Cleanup and Gentrification? Evidence From Chicago
This paper presents research on the distribution of economic benefits from brownfield cleanup and land development. There is growing concern that cleaning up blighted areas, including brownfields, can entrench inequality by disproportionately benefiting some demographic groups more than others. We look for evidence of disproportionate benefits by relating changes in move decisions to land use activity in Chicago using a heterogeneous sorting mode…
Experiences with environmental gentrification: Evidence from Chicago
Environmental contamination and limited access to green spaces disproportionately burden communities of color with negative impacts on residents’ health. Yet, cleaning up contamination and creating green spaces has in some cases been associated with displacing long-term residents as the neighborhood becomes desirable to more affluent, often Whiter, populations through environmental gentrification. We used mixed methods to investigate environmenta…
Practitioners’ perspectives on preventing environmental gentrification
Pollution cleanup, green space creation, and other improvements to environmental quality in cities are important to urban sustainability. However, because they occur within a political economic context characterized by structural racism, urban greening initiatives can intentionally or unintentionally reproduce racial, economic, and social inequities through environmental gentrification. We explored possibilities for improving environmental qualit…
Building undergraduate STEM identity, confidence and skills through prosocial research: The community air research experience
The Community Air Research Experience (CARE) was a National Science Foundation funded project led by Loyola University Chicago in collaboration with Colorado State University, the Edgewater Environmental Coalition, and the Southeast Environmental Task Force. CARE established a geosciences learning ecosystem aimed at building undergraduate students’ STEM interest, research skills, and familiarity with geosciences careers. Through CARE, 16 students…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (4 works) · Environmental justice (4 works) · Gentrification (4 works) · Politics (4 works)