Child poverty and environmental justice

Hornberg, Claudia; Pauli, Andrea

doi:10.1016/j.ijheh.2007.07.006

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“…Several studies show that environmental inequalities often cut across a whole range of factors, including (multiple) proximity to waste and hazardous sites, exposure to toxins and pollution, increased vulnerability due to lower and/or inadequate safety mechanisms and infrastructure, as well as higher social and biological susceptibility (Jerrett/Finkelstein 2005;Walker 2009;Walker et al 2005;Hornberg/Pauli 2007). Against this background, rather than exclusively focusing on particular environmental inequalities, then, we should be sensitive to existing geographies of risk (Jerrett/Finkelstein 2005;Walker 2009 Geographies of risk are established by combining the results of two other geographies: geographies of exposure and geographies of vulnerability.…”

Section: Geographies Of Exposure Vulnerability and Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Inequalities and Democratic Citizenship: Linking Normative Theory with Empirical Research

Wallimann-Helmer¹

2014

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The aim of this paper is to link empirical ndings concerning environmental inequalities with dierent normative yard-sticks for assessing whether these inequalities should be deemed unjust, or not. We argue that such an inquiry must necessarily take into account some caveats regarding both empirical research and normative theory. We suggest that empirical results must be contextualised by establishing geographies of risk. As a normative yard-stick we propose a moderately demanding social-egalitarian account of justice and democratic citizenship, which we take to be best suited to identify unjust as well as legitimate instances of socio-environmental inequality.

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Section: Geographies Of Exposure Vulnerability and Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Inequalities and Democratic Citizenship: Linking Normative Theory with Empirical Research

Wallimann-Helmer¹

2014

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“…Nach den Ergebnissen aktueller repräsentativer Umfragen sind fast 80% der deutschen Bevöl-kerung der Meinung, dass Umweltprobleme ihre Gesundheit belasten, für 30% belasten Umweltprobleme ihre Gesundheit sogar stark oder sehr stark [4,5]. Die große Zahl an Publikationen zum Problemkreis Umweltbelastungen und soziale Lage spiegelt die Zunahme des wissenschaftlichen Interesses in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren an dieser Thematik wider [6,7,8,9,10,11,12]. In diesen Publikationen konnte gezeigt werden, dass untere soziale Statusgruppen häufiger und höheren Umweltbelastungen ausgesetzt sein können als höhere Statusgruppen [6,7,8,13,14].…”

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Soziale Ungleichheit von Lärmbelästigung und Straßenverkehrsbelastung

Laußmann

Lampert

Scheidt‐Nave

2013

Bundesgesundheitsbl.

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“…For families who are poor, the likelihood is high that they will be forced to live in substandard, frequently older housing, 80 despite often paying more than 30% of their income for rent 81 . The housing in which poor people live often has structural damage, which if not corrected can further increase risk of exposure to home‐related environmental hazards 81,82 …”

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“…81 The housing in which poor people live often has structural damage, which if not corrected can further increase risk of exposure to home-related environmental hazards. 81,82…”

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Housing and Health

Rauh

Landrigan

Cláudio

2008

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

195

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The importance of adequate housing for the maintenance of health and well-being has long been a topic of scientific and public health policy discussion, but the links remain elusive. Here we explore the role of the residential environment in the etiology of illness (specifically asthma) and the persistence of socioeconomic health disparities. Housing conditions, shaped by social forces, affect exposure to physical and chemical "toxicants," thereby translating social adversities into individual illness and population health disparities. We discuss the mediating role of housing in determining health outcomes at multiple levels (social-structural, neighborhood, and individual family). To date, little attention has been paid by most environmental health scientists to the social-structural conditions underlying gross inequities in the distribution of toxic exposures, with even less attention to the processes whereby these social conditions may directly affect susceptibility to the toxic exposures themselves. This chapter goes beyond traditional medical and environmental science models to incorporate a range of social and physical determinants of environmental pollutions, illustrating how these conditions result in health and illness. We focus here on childhood asthma as an example of a serious public health problem that has been associated with low income, minority status, and characteristics of the home environment. We end the chapter with a discussion of the environmental justice movement and the role of housing as a potential agent of change and focus of interventions aimed to reduce the harmful effects of environmental pollutants.

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Child poverty and environmental justice

Cited by 34 publications

References 32 publications

Environmental Inequalities and Democratic Citizenship: Linking Normative Theory with Empirical Research

Environmental Inequalities and Democratic Citizenship: Linking Normative Theory with Empirical Research

Soziale Ungleichheit von Lärmbelästigung und Straßenverkehrsbelastung

Housing and Health

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