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Environmental Justice Organizing for Environmental Health: Case Study on Asthma and Diesel Exhaust in Roxbury, Massachusetts

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  • Penn Loh

    (Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE))

  • Jodi Sugerman-Brozan

    (Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE))

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This article examines how environmental health problems have been addressed from an environmental justice perspective in a low-income community of color in Boston. The disparate impact of environmentally related diseases on low-income people and people of color are the result of deeply rooted racial and class injustices. The authors examine a case study of youth who, out of concern about high asthma rates, organized to clean up diesel exhaust from transit buses. In this case, scientific uncertainty about multiple, dispersed causes demanded a problem frame broader than one that identifies and addresses a single cause. Environmental justice expands the frame to ask, Why are there so many risk factors? What rights do we have to a healthy environment? and Who decides what is to be done? The environmental justice approach goes beyond treating individuals to changing the underlying environmental conditions causing these illnesses.

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  • Penn Loh & Jodi Sugerman-Brozan, 2002. "Environmental Justice Organizing for Environmental Health: Case Study on Asthma and Diesel Exhaust in Roxbury, Massachusetts," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 584(1), pages 110-124, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:584:y:2002:i:1:p:110-124
    DOI: 10.1177/000271620258400108
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    1. Samantha Teixeira & Anita Zuberi, 2016. "Mapping the Racial Inequality in Place: Using Youth Perceptions to Identify Unequal Exposure to Neighborhood Environmental Hazards," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 13(9), pages 1-15, August.
    2. Wei Hong & Yimeng Wei & Shuyan Wang, 2022. "Left behind in perception of air pollution? A hidden form of spatial injustice in China," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 40(3), pages 666-684, May.

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