<Para ID="Par1">Socio-environmental synthesis (S-E synthesis) is a research method and problem-solving approach that integrates existing knowledge and data from natural and social sciences to advance understanding of socio-environmental systems and to inform solutions to environmental problems. As science...</para>

<Para ID="Par1">Environmental justice recognizes the connections between social and environmental concerns and interrogates power dynamics related to environmental issues. Courses in environmental studies and the geosciences provide an opportunity, and perhaps an obligation to explore environmental justice, but...</para>

This paper draws from data provided by the Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012 Ethnographic Field School to accomplish two goals: to open questions about the impacts of hydraulic fracturing on people’s relationships to the environment in western PA and to explore the pedagogical...