Matilda Odera, Blair Kelley, Louie Rivers, Alyanna Wilson, Jessica Tran, Khushi Patel, Brenda Vallee, Wilma Subra, Jennifer A. Cramer, Jennifer K. Irving, Margaret Reams, Jennifer Richmond-Bryant
{"title":"A Community-Engaged Oral History Study as a Tool for Understanding Environmental Justice Aspects of Human Exposures to Hazardous Waste Thermal Treatment Emissions in Colfax, LA","authors":"Matilda Odera, Blair Kelley, Louie Rivers, Alyanna Wilson, Jessica Tran, Khushi Patel, Brenda Vallee, Wilma Subra, Jennifer A. Cramer, Jennifer K. Irving, Margaret Reams, Jennifer Richmond-Bryant","doi":"10.1089/env.2023.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2023.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates environmental justice (EJ) themes related to siting a hazardous waste thermal treatment facility near a low-income community of color. We investigated effects of living near a hazardous waste thermal treatment facility through three EJ aspects: recognitional, procedural, and distributive justice. The study involved the collection of oral history interviews from residents of Colfax, a town in Grant Parish, Louisiana, that hosts an open burn/open detonation hazardous waste thermal treatment facility. The facility processes materials such as munitions, theme park waste, and contaminated soils from Superfund sites, and it increased its volume drastically in 2014. Residents reported adverse health conditions and exposure to air pollutants. We analyzed how the three themes of EJ emerged from the interviews using the NVivo coding software. We recorded narratives that described substantial changes around people's identity, health, and social experiences after the facility's increase in operations. Residents described a peaceful and clean community before the facility's construction in 1980. Some residents stated that the community had not been consulted when the facility was established or when its operations were increased. Colfax residents' narratives jointly relay a proud history of community connections and homeownership that was undermined by environmental health hazards created by the facility and by their exclusion from local and state government decisions about the facility's placement.","PeriodicalId":46143,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Justice","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135825153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brandon Hunter, Aradhna Tripati, Catherine Coleman Flowers, Omega Wilson, Brenda Wilson
{"title":"Theories of Change: A Framework to Improve Engineering Efforts to Advance Environmental Justice","authors":"Brandon Hunter, Aradhna Tripati, Catherine Coleman Flowers, Omega Wilson, Brenda Wilson","doi":"10.1089/env.2022.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2022.0042","url":null,"abstract":"“Justice 40” Executive Order 14008 is a whole-of-government initiative that commits that at least 40% of overall benefits of the federal climate and infrastructure investments are realized by communities that experience disproportionate environmental burdens. Engineering research and practice will both be essential to realizing Justice 40 by identifying infrastructure problems, improving designs, conducting novel studies, and developing new technologies, with the collective goal to provide environmental safety to the public. While engineering can be effective in assessing and improving infrastructure in general, however, not only are traditional engineering theories of change ineffective at addressing fundamental inequities, but also many aspects result in the further perpetuation of environmental injustice. In addition, there exists no cross-sector structural template from which to connect, design, execute, and evaluate engineering infrastructure research and practice through an environmental justice (EJ) framework. In the absence of such a connective template, different sectors continue to conduct engineering efforts under traditional sector-specific paradigms or theories on how to effect change. The work herein presents a cross-sector theory of change framework, or a working structure for how to adopt and systematically integrate EJ principles into engineering research and practice processes to advance EJ. We assess common theories of change practised in the market-based sector, philanthropy, academia, government, and community-based sector and provide analysis, critique, and recommendations as to how engineering research and practice processes can be improved to equitably realize “Justice 40.”","PeriodicalId":46143,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Justice","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135850475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bavisha Kalyan, Anthony Dwayne Diaz, Jaila Adams, Romir Anand, Kevin Alexander Cenac, Cristian Cerrato, Porsche Cooper, Walter Diaz, Daniel Feliciano, Nadia Fradkin, Earl Godfrey, Jermaine Hargrove, Sabrina Hunte, Aoi Uchima Morel, Ravin Ramsaran, Saeed Idrees Rayman, Jessica Roberson, Delon Smith, Jada Wakefield, Nia Wakefield, Saneitta Wicks, Ammar Zayn Williams, Maya Carrasquillo
{"title":"Community Scientists of the Newark Water Coalition Are a New Dawn for Community-Owned and Managed Research Projects: Mobile Lead Initiative","authors":"Bavisha Kalyan, Anthony Dwayne Diaz, Jaila Adams, Romir Anand, Kevin Alexander Cenac, Cristian Cerrato, Porsche Cooper, Walter Diaz, Daniel Feliciano, Nadia Fradkin, Earl Godfrey, Jermaine Hargrove, Sabrina Hunte, Aoi Uchima Morel, Ravin Ramsaran, Saeed Idrees Rayman, Jessica Roberson, Delon Smith, Jada Wakefield, Nia Wakefield, Saneitta Wicks, Ammar Zayn Williams, Maya Carrasquillo","doi":"10.1089/env.2022.0121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2022.0121","url":null,"abstract":"The Mobile Lead Testing Unit (MLTU), coordinated by the Newark Water Coalition (NWC) and the University of California, Berkeley researchers, sought to measure and educate community members on the sources of lead exposure within the home by conducting field analysis on lead in paint, water, soil, and dust. Throughout our project spanning design, outreach, education and training, methodological design, analysis, and evaluations, the MLTU instilled, executed, and added to the principles of community-owned and managed research projects. The primary data collected will be used to build an exposure model and to support the NWC in their advocacy. Our community voice paper presents our reflections on the nuanced, unforeseen, and complexities of community-driven science and attempts to forge a path toward democratizing knowledge and science while fighting for environmental justice.","PeriodicalId":46143,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Justice","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134886130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Water Injustice to the Coproduction of a New Hydrosocial Territory: Working-Class Inhabitants and University Activists Creating Alternatives in Mexico City","authors":"Amaël Marchand","doi":"10.1089/env.2022.0116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2022.0116","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46143,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Justice","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86106781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Envisioning Disabled and Just Futures: Mutual Aid as an Adaptive Strategy for Environmental Change and Ecological Disablement","authors":"Rachel G. McKane, David N. Pellow, P. Greiner","doi":"10.1089/env.2022.0104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2022.0104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46143,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Justice","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86352870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Sánchez-López, Camila María Pérez-Cubillos, Santiago R. Duque
{"title":"Environmental and Territorial Governance in the Yahuarcaca Lake System (Leticia, Amazonas): The Organization of Local Fishermen La Tika, 2003–2021","authors":"D. Sánchez-López, Camila María Pérez-Cubillos, Santiago R. Duque","doi":"10.1089/env.2022.0068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2022.0068","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46143,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Justice","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85671951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charles W. Sterling, L. Krometis, T. Pingel, Ladale C. Winling
{"title":"Connections Between Present-Day Water Access and Historical Redlining","authors":"Charles W. Sterling, L. Krometis, T. Pingel, Ladale C. Winling","doi":"10.1089/env.2022.0115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2022.0115","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46143,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Justice","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90691431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vivek Ravichandran, Jan-Michael J. Archer, Lalitha Aiyar, Max Teirstein, Karenna Barton, Zarif L. Azher, Rohan Parikh, M. Ada, Ashvi Shah, Al-Masoodi Rah, S. Wilson
{"title":"Using the Maryland Park Equity Tool to Correlate Park Space with Children's Health in Baltimore, Maryland","authors":"Vivek Ravichandran, Jan-Michael J. Archer, Lalitha Aiyar, Max Teirstein, Karenna Barton, Zarif L. Azher, Rohan Parikh, M. Ada, Ashvi Shah, Al-Masoodi Rah, S. Wilson","doi":"10.1089/env.2022.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2022.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46143,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Justice","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88047932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rosalind Franklin Society Proudly Announces the 2022 Award Recipient for Environmental Justice","authors":"Jessica Hernandez","doi":"10.1089/env.2023.29017.rfs2022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2023.29017.rfs2022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46143,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Justice","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77758802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}