As a FoES worker, Scandrett sought to use popular education techniques to help community activists build on their knowledge of and work with communities so that they could more effectively resist ecologically damaging developments than they had previously.
Scandrett’s piece partly discusses the ‘agents for environmental justice project’ in which academic and political knowledges of environmentalism (of professional community and FoES campaigners) were brought together with knowledge community activists had already gained as they sought to fight against the environmental degradation of their communities.