Environmental Justice and the Allocation Of Risk: The Case of Lead and Public Health

1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Kraft ◽  
Denise Scheberle
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Justice

scholarly journals Against the New Normal

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-54
Author(s):  
Sean Cubitt
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Extreme Poverty ◽  
Ecological Resources

Abstract COVID-19 is now part of the resources out of which any future must be made. The temptation is to curl back into private misery and fatalism. The opportunity is to further the design of neonationalist, neoliberal returns to pre-1917 norms of extreme wealth, extreme poverty, and unmitigated exploitation of technical and ecological resources. The challenge is to build a future of public health, wealth, education, and environmental justice.

Evaluating unintended outcomes of regional smart-growth strategies: Environmental justice and public health concerns

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 280-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Tayarani ◽  
Amir Poorfakhraei ◽  
Razieh Nadafianshahamabadi ◽  
Gregory M. Rowangould
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Health Concerns

Environmental and Public Health Issues: Community Engagement in Environmental Justice Populations

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Neet ◽  
Jamelle H. Ellis ◽  
Zachary H. Hart ◽  
Geoffrey I. Scott ◽  
Daniela B. Friedman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Health Issues

scholarly journals A Collaborative Approach to Assess Legacy Pollution in Communities Near a Lead–Acid Battery Smelter: The “Truth Fairy” Project

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 71S-80S ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill E. Johnston ◽  
mark! Lopez ◽  
Matthew O. Gribble ◽  
Wendy Gutschow ◽  
Christine Austin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Toxic Metals ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Community Organization ◽  
Toxic Metal ◽  
Deciduous Teeth ◽  
Lead Acid Battery ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Lead Acid

Advocates for civil rights, environmental justice, and movements promoting social justice require data and may lack trust in public authorities, turning instead to academic scientists to help address their questions. Assessing historical exposure to toxic chemicals, especially in situations of a specific industrial source of pollution affecting a community, is critical for informing appropriate public health and policy responses. We describe a community-driven approach to integrate retrospective environmental hazard exposure assessment with community organizing to address concerns about the extent of exposure to toxic metals in a predominantly working-class, Latinx community living near a now-closed lead–acid battery smelter facility. Named the “Truth Fairy Project” by leaders of the community organization East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, this community–university partnership aimed to assess prenatal and early-life exposures to toxic metals through biomarkers of exposure in baby/deciduous teeth. This partnership integrated community mobilization with empirical research, informing residents about toxic metal exposures and improving the community’s capacity to respond to a public health crisis.

scholarly journals Justice and Public Health

2019 ◽  
pp. 32-46
Author(s):  
Govind Persad
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Distributive Justice ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
Intergenerational Justice ◽  
Health It ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Individual Choices

This chapter discusses how justice applies to public health. It begins by outlining three different metrics employed in discussions of justice: resources, capabilities, and welfare. It then discusses different accounts of justice in distribution, reviewing utilitarianism, egalitarianism, prioritarianism, and sufficientarianism, as well as desert-based theories, and applies these distributive approaches to public health examples. Next, it examines the interplay between distributive justice and individual rights, such as religious rights, property rights, and rights against discrimination, by discussing examples such as mandatory treatment and screening. The chapter also examines the nexus between public health and debates concerning whose interests matter to justice (the “scope of justice”), including global justice, intergenerational justice, and environmental justice, as well as debates concerning whether justice applies to individual choices or only to institutional structures (the “site of justice”). The chapter closes with a discussion of strategies, including deliberative and aggregative democracy, for adjudicating disagreements about justice.

Federal Statutes and Environmental Justice in the Navajo Nation: The Case of Fracking in the Greater Chaco Region

2022 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-123
Author(s):  
Mario Atencio ◽  
Hazel James-Tohe ◽  
Samuel Sage ◽  
David J. Tsosie ◽  
Ally Beasley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cumulative Impacts ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
National Environmental Policy Act ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Chaco Region ◽  
National Historic Preservation Act

Arguing for the importance of robust public participation and meaningful Tribal consultation to address the cumulative impacts of federal projects, we bridge interdisciplinary perspectives across law, public health, and Indigenous studies. We focus on openings in existing federal law to involve Tribes and publics more meaningfully in resource management planning, while recognizing the limits of this involvement when only the federal government dictates the terms of participation and analysis. We first discuss challenges and opportunities for addressing cumulative impacts and environmental justice through 2 US federal statutes: the National Environmental Policy Act and the National Historic Preservation Act. Focusing on a major federal planning process involving fracking in the Greater Chaco region of northwestern New Mexico, we examine how the Department of the Interior attempted Tribal consultation during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also highlight local efforts to monitor Diné health and well-being. For Diné people, human health is inseparable from the health of the land. But in applying the primary legal tools for analyzing the effects of extraction across the Greater Chaco region, federal agencies fragment categories of impact that Diné people view holistically. (Am J Public Health. 2022;112(1):116–123. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306562 )

Three Voices Papers for This Special Issue of New Solutions—Environmental Justice in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-466
Author(s):  
John Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Environmental Public Health ◽  
History Of ◽  
Gulf Coast Region ◽  
Coast Region ◽  
The U.S

The U.S. states along the northern shores of the Gulf of Mexico have often been described as America’s Energy Colony. This region is festooned with polluting industries, storage and waste disposal sites for toxic products, and a history of generally lax approaches to environmental public health and enforcement of regulations. This issue of New Solutions includes three interviews of groups and individuals who work for environmental justice in the Gulf Coast region. The interviewees provide key insights into the diverse cultural texture and social fabric of the Gulf. Their range of gulf locales and population groups embody different styles of engagement and different relationships to organizing, disseminating health and environmental risk information, and advocating for social and environmental justice. Three additional interviews will appear in the next issue of New Solutions.

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