Download or read book Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice written by Julian Agyeman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julian Agyeman once again pushes us all to think more critically about how to integrate two important political and intellectual projects.

Download or read book Environmental Justice Healthy Communities written by Ann-Elise Bryant and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines environmental justice in the context of healthy communities. The World Health Organization provides a list of "social determinants of health," which incorporates a set of environmental characteristics that together form healthy living environments. "Health" for individuals is indicated by health status factors such as physical, mental, and spiritual well-being; for communities, health is measured by such outcomes as average life expectancy, mortality rates, and morbidity rates.What do communities need to produce these health outcomes? Environmental justice is key. This book broadly presents the concept of environmental justice in terms of the human right to nutritious community food systems; affordable housing free of contaminated drinking water and toxic building materials; the right of workers to make a living wage in safe and humane work environments; the public need for parks and other urban open spaces; and ultimately, humanity's need for a stable climate.This book also addresses the question of what ordinary citizens can do together in their local communities to promote environmental justice. In the face of environmental threats such as water pollution, air pollution, and warming global temperatures, what strategies and tactics have proven successful for citizen activists? This book attempts to answer these questions using national survey research and real-life case illustrations of citizens taking action to protect and promote the health of their community - and it does so following the old maxim: "think globally, act locally."

Download or read book Building Healthy Communities from the Ground Up written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Building Healthy Communities in Environmental Justice Areas written by Janine M. Legg Ph. D. and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biopsychosocial health model with an environmental component, Building Healthy Communities in Environmental Justice Areas (BHCEJA)was first introduced to academia and public health in 2002. The BHCEJA model has been peer reviewed and selected for presentations by the American Public Health Association, International Society of Environmental Epidemiologists and Office of Minority Health and accepted on February 10, 2005 by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protections Environmental Justice Advisory Board as a starting place for subcommittee work for the Cumulative/Disparate subcommittee, and the Environmentally Burdened subcommittee.Moreover, the BHCEJA model is evidenced base and requires assessment, critical thinking, systematic planning and the reconceptualization of disease. The BHCEJA model is a biopsychosocial health model with an environmental health component that: requires a health assessment of the community based upon standardized health indicators and area based socioeconomic measures; and an assessment of the risk from the environmental burden (TRI chemicals released into the community) of the community. The BHCEJA model also requires health surveillance for exposure to the four ATSDR registry chemicals and lead. The BHCEJA model has seven requirements. The first requirement of the BHCEJA model requires the derivation of the community health disparities using health indicators and derivation of health risk to the community from environmental burden, using U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) RSEI risk related scores; seeks to create an equitable community health care delivery system based upon needed private and public sector resources; and requires a review of all health and mental health resources so that verticalization of community health programs can be eliminated. The second requirement of the BHCEJA model requires two assessments: assessment of health, and assessment of environmental burden. The third requirement of the BHCEJA model requires that health statistics be calculated on a three-year rate for at least five years (10 years is preferable) using standardized health indicators. The BHCEJA model requires health indicators be calculated for all races (where data is available) for: 1) Low Baby Birth Weight rate, (LBW)-Infants born under 2500 grams /(per 1000 live births; 2) Infant Mortality/(per 1000 live births) (where statistics are comparable and available); 3) Infant-4 year old mortality (age specified rate per 100,000); 4) all cause mortality (per 100,000 based on 200 std. Million population); 5) Cancer incidence rate (per 100,000); and 6) cancer incidence rates significantly above the state average, (per 100,000). The intent is to demonstrate the existence of disease or to show the lack their of disease in communities. The fourth requirement of the BHCEJA model requires that risk-related scores be calculated per: 1) chemical released; 2) per facility and chemical; 3) risk per county (and township if possible); 4) risk to community by age sex category, (Children under 10; Children 10-17; Males 19-44; Females 18-44; Adults 65 and Over) and a total risk-related score to the population; Risk by SIC code and ranking of each facility within the SIC code. The fifth requirement of the BHCEJA model requires that: poverty statistics be calculated (for the county that the community of concern is located, or the town that the community of concern is located) to determine the percent with income below the poverty level for at least a 5-10 year period of time (and then compared to the state rates). The sixth requirement of the BHCEJA model requires: 1) an assessment of the available childhood lead poisoning statistics (at least 5 years). The BHCEJA model also requires: 1) that trends be identified for area based socioeconomic measures. The last and seventh requirement of the BHCEJA model is an additional assessment of the RSEI risk-related scores (using RSEI, Ver. 2.1.2) for the four Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry (ATSDR), registry chemicals (benzene, TCE, TCA, and dioxin), if the registry chemicals are released in the community. The BHCEJA model also requires an analysis and understanding of the investigator of the released OSHA Carcinogens. A goal of the risk assessment and disease assessment is to determine if the risk related score is within the top 80% of risk and the rates of health indicators are above the state averages. After the assessment of the health indicators are calculated on a 3-year rate, (for five years) the first requirement is for the investigator to determine if the disease rates are significantly above the state average. The second requirement of the investigator is to compare all RSEI risk related scores in relationship to the state. The investigator when performing the queries should determine the risks to quantify in the data queried: (just air releases or air and water releases or air, water and landfill releases; or all releases). The fourth requirement of the investigator is to determine: 1) the health and mental health needs of community in total based upon disease burden; 2) the existing health care delivery system in the community; 3) if additional health programs are needed; 4) if a registry program is needed for the four chemicals lead, trichloroethylene, trichloroethane, benzene, and dioxin; 5) if the community could benefit by implementation of health promotion programs, health communication program and health education program; 6) if there are barriers to healthcare based on any population and culture; and 7) if improvements are needed in the community health care system and develop initial ideas on implementation of an integrated private and public sector health care delivery system. This model can be applied to a rural or urban setting, as the challenges in environmental justice areas seem to be anticipated and predictable. The application of the model is to implement local and state government policy to reduce health disparities and environmental burden that is evidenced based.

Download or read book Toward Environmental Justice written by Committee on Environmental Justice and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-03-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by community-based organizations and supported by a growing body of literature, the environmental justice movement contends that poor and minority populations are burdened with more than their share of toxic waste, pesticide runoff, and other hazardous byproducts of our modern economic life. Is environmental degradation worse in poor and minority communities? Do these communities suffer more adverse health effects as a result? The committee addresses these questions and explores how current fragmentation in health policy could be replaced with greater coordination among federal, state, and local parties. The book is highlighted with case studies from five locations where the committee traveled to hear citizen and researcher testimony. It offers detailed examinations in these areas: Identifying environmental hazards and assessing risk for populations of varying ethnic, social, and economic backgrounds, and the need for methodologies that uniquely suit the populations at risk. Identifying basic, clinical, and occupational research needs and meeting challenges to research on minorities. Expanding environmental education from an ecological focus to a public health focus for all levels of health professionals. Legal and ethical aspects of environmental health issues. The book makes recommendations to decisionmakers in the areas of public health, research, and education of health professionals and outlines health policy considerations.

Download or read book Ground Truths written by Chad Raphael and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This is the first book devoted entirely to summarizing the body of community-engaged research on environmental justice, how we can conduct more of it, and how we can do it better. It shows how community-engaged research makes unique contributions to environmental justice for Black, Indigenous, people of color, and low-income communities by centering local knowledge, building truth from the ground up, producing actionable data that can influence decisions, and transforming researchers’ relationships to communities for equity and mutual benefit. The book offers a critical synthesis of relevant research in many fields, outlines the main steps in conducting community-engaged research, evaluates the major research methods used, suggests new directions, and addresses overcoming institutional barriers to scholarship in academia. The coauthors employ an original framework that shows how community-engaged research and environmental justice align, which links research on the many topics treated in the chapters—from public health, urban planning, and conservation to law and policy, community economic development, and food justice and sovereignty.

Download or read book Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice written by Julian Agyeman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that environmental justice and the sustainable communities movement are compatible Popularized in the movies Erin Brockovich and A Civil Action, “environmental justice” refers to any local response to a threat against community health. In this book, Julian Agyeman argues that environmental justice and the sustainable communities movement are compatible in practical ways. Yet sustainability, which focuses on meeting our needs today while not compromising the ability of our successors to meet their needs, has not always partnered with the challenges of environmental justice. Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice explores the ideological differences between these two groups and shows how they can work together. Agyeman provides concrete examples of potential model organizations that employ the types of strategies he advocates. This book is vital to the efforts of community organizers, policymakers, and everyone interested in a better environment and community health.

Download or read book Environmental Justice written by Barry E. Hill and published by Environmental Law Institute. This book was released on 2009 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental risks and harms affect certain geographic areas and populations more than others. The environmental justice movement is aimed at having the public and private sectors address this disproportionate burden of risk and exposure to pollution in minority and/or low-income communities, and for those communities to be engaged in the decision-making processes. Environmental Justice provides an overview of this defining problem and explores the growth of the environmental justice movement. It analyzes the complex mixture of environmental laws and civil rights legal theories adopted in environmental justice litigation. Teachers will have online access to the more than 100 page Teachers Manual.

Download or read book Rethinking Environmental Justice in Sustainable Cities written by Heather E. Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the study of environmental policy and justice becomes increasingly significant in today’s global climate, standard statistical approaches to gathering data have become less helpful at generating new insights and possibilities. None of the conventional frameworks easily allow for the empirical modeling of the interactions of all the actors involved, or for the emergence of outcomes unintended by the actors. The existing frameworks account for the "what," but not for the "why." Heather E. Campbell, Yushim Kim, and Adam Eckerd bring an innovative perspective to environmental justice research. Their approach adjusts the narrower questions often asked in the study of environmental justice, expanding to broader investigations of how and why environmental inequities occur. Using agent-based modeling (ABM), they study the interactions and interdependencies among different agents such as firms, residents, and government institutions. Through simulation, the authors test underlying assumptions in environmental justice and discover ways to modify existing theories to better explain why environmental injustice occurs. Furthermore, they use ABM to generate empirically testable hypotheses, which they employ to check if their simulated findings are supported in the real world using real data. The pioneering research on environmental justice in this text will have effects on the field of environmental policy as a whole. For social science and policy researchers, this book explores how to employ new and experimental methods of inquiry on challenging social problems, and for the field of environmental justice, the authors demonstrate how ABM helps illuminate the complex social and policy interactions that lead to both environmental justice and injustice.

Download or read book Toxic Communities written by Dorceta E. Taylor and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From St. Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and minority neighborhoods so beset by pollution that just living in them can be hazardous to your health. Due to entrenched segregation, zoning ordinances that privilege wealthier communities, or because businesses have found the OCypaths of least resistance, OCO there are many hazardous waste and toxic facilities in these communities, leading residents to experience health and wellness problems on top of the race and class discrimination most already experience. Taking stock of the recent environmental justice scholarship, a Toxic Communities aexamines the connections among residential segregation, zoning, and exposure to environmental hazards. Renowned environmental sociologist Dorceta Taylor focuses on the locations of hazardous facilities in low-income and minority communities and shows how they have been dumped on, contaminated and exposed. Drawing on an array of historical and contemporary case studies from across the country, Taylor explores controversies over racially-motivated decisions in zoning laws, eminent domain, government regulation (or lack thereof), and urban renewal. She provides a comprehensive overview of the debate over whether or not there is a link between environmental transgressions and discrimination, drawing a clear picture of the state of the environmental justice field today and where it is going. In doing so, she introduces new concepts and theories for understanding environmental racism that will be essential for environmental justice scholars. A fascinating landmark study, a Toxic Communities agreatly contributes to the study of race, the environment, and space in the contemporary United States."

Download or read book Dumping In Dixie written by Robert D. Bullard and published by Avalon Publishing - (Westview Press). This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To be poor, working-class, or a person of color in the United States often means bearing a disproportionate share of the country’s environmental problems. Starting with the premise that all Americans have a basic right to live in a healthy environment, Dumping in Dixie chronicles the efforts of five African American communities, empowered by the civil rights movement, to link environmentalism with issues of social justice. In the third edition, Bullard speaks to us from the front lines of the environmental justice movement about new developments in environmental racism, different organizing strategies, and success stories in the struggle for environmental equity.

Download or read book Measuring What Matters written by Pacifica Institute and published by . This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report quantifies how serious, avoidable problems have become chronic and offers solutions for a better, more equitable way of life in West County. The West County Indicators Project was launched in 2006 to work with local residents and organizations to build power to achieve a vision for healthy communities in West Contra Costa County. The individuals and groups who have worked on the issues in the resulting report have produced action plans to identify and address the concerns they feel most impact their quality of life and health. The bottom line is that a healthy community requires environmental and economic justice.

Download or read book Environmental Justice and Community Based Health Model Discussion and Recommendations Report written by U.s. Environmental Protection Agency National Environmental Justice Advisory Council and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2001-02-28 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EPA, through its Office of Environmental Justice, asked the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council to provide advice and recommendations on the following questions: (1) What strategies and areas of research should be pursued to achieve more effective, integrated community-based health assessment, intervention, and prevention efforts?; (2) How should these strategies be developed, implemented and evaluated so as to ensure substantial participation, integration and collaboration among federal agencies, in partnership with: impacted communities; public health, medical and environmental professionals; academic institutions; state, tribal and local governments; and the private sector?; (3) How can consideration of socioeconomic status and cultural factors: (a) contribute to health disparities and cumulative and disproportionate environmental effects; and (b) be incorporated into community health assessments? This report reflects the advice and recommendations that resulted from pre-meeting preparation and on-site discussions and public comments. It sets forth a number of policy recommendations for consideration by EPA and other federal, state and local agencies to consider.

Download or read book Environmental Justice written by Clifford Rechtschaffen and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental justice is a significant and dynamic contemporary development in environmental law. Rechtschaffen, Gauna and new coauthor O'Neill provide an accessible compilation of interdisciplinary materials for studying environmental justice, interspersed with extensive notes, questions, and a teacher's manual with practice exercises designed to facilitate classroom discussion. It integrates excerpts from empirical studies, cases, agency decisions, informal agency guidance, law reviews, and other academic literature, as well as community-generated documents. This second edition includes new chapters addressing climate change, international environmental justice, and a capstone case study. It also adds expanded coverage of risk and the public health, empirical environmental justice research, and environmental justice for American Indian peoples.

Download or read book Indigenous Environmental Justice written by Karen Jarratt-Snider and published by Indigenous Justice. This book was released on 2020 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With connections to traditional homelands being at the heart of Native identity, environmental justice is of heightened importance to Indigenous communities. Not only do irresponsible and exploitative environmental policies harm the physical and financial health of Indigenous communities, they also cause spiritual harm by destroying the land and wildlife that are held in a place of exceptional reverence for Indigenous peoples. Combining elements of legal issues, human rights issues, and sovereignty issues, Indigenous Environmental Justice creates a clear example of community resilience in the face of corporate greed"--

Download or read book Street Science written by Jason Corburn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When environmental health problems arise in a community, policymakers must be able to reconcile the first-hand experience of local residents with recommendations by scientists. In this highly original look at environmental health policymaking, Jason Corburn shows the ways that local knowledge can be combined with professional techniques to achieve better solutions for environmental health problems. He traces the efforts of a low-income community in Brooklyn to deal with environmental health problems in its midst and offers a framework for understanding "street science"—decision making that draws on community knowledge and contributes to environmental justice. Like many other low-income urban communities, the Greenpoint/Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn suffers more than its share of environmental problems, with a concentration of polluting facilities and elevated levels of localized air pollutants. Corburn looks at four instances of street science in Greenpoint/Williamsburg, where community members and professionals combined forces to address the risks from subsistence fishing from the polluted East River, the asthma epidemic in the Latino community, childhood lead poisoning, and local sources of air pollution. These episodes highlight both the successes and the limits of street science and demonstrate ways residents can establish their own credibility when working with scientists. Street science, Corburn argues, does not devalue science; it revalues other kinds of information and democratizes the inquiry and decision making processes.

Download or read book A Community Guide to Environmental Health written by Jeff Conant and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers topics: community mobilization; water source protection, purification and borne diseases; sanitation; mosquito-borne diseases; deforestation and reforestation; farming; pesticides and toxics; solid waste and health care waste; harm from mining and oil extraction. Includes group activities and appropriate technology instructions.