About Fayola Jacobs
Fayola Jacobs' work sits at the intersection of Black geographies, Black feminisms, radical planning, and environmental justice. Focusing on natural hazards and climate change, her research views disasters not merely as outcomes of systemic injustices but also as opportunities to imagine and build more just Black environmental futures.Selected Publications
Jacobs, Fayola. \Black feminism and radical planning: New directions for disaster planning research.\ Planning Theory 18, no. 1 (2019): 24-39., Jacobs, Fayola. \Beyond social vulnerability: COVID-19 as a disaster of racial capitalism.\ Sociologica 15, no. 1 (2021): 55-65., Purdum, Carlee, Felicia Henry, Sloan Rucker, Darien Alexander Williams, Richard Thomas, Benika Dixon, and Fayola Jacobs. \No justice, no resilience: Prison abolition as disaster mitigation in an era of climate change.\ Environmental Justice 14, no. 6 (2021): 418-425., Zodgekar, Ketaki, Avery Raines, Fayola Jacobs, and Patrick Bigger. \A Dangerous Debt-Climate Nexus: In a warming world, technocratic fixes are inadequate responses to vulnerability. achieving climate and economic justice in the Caribbean calls for reparative solutions.\ NACLA Report on the Americas 55, no. 3 (2023): 319-326.Recent Courses Taught
Environmental Justice in Urban Planning & Public Policy, Environmental Planning, Policy, and Decision Making
Fayola Jacobs
Assistant Professor