Environmental Justice and Infectious Disease: Gaps, Issues, and Research Needs

Abara, Winston E.; Wilson, Sacoby; Burwell, Kristen

doi:10.1089/env.2010.0043

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“…Often intertwined in the goal of democratizing science through CS is an intent to conduct meaningful scientific research that can inform and address environmental injustice (Corburn 2005) through advocacy and policy efforts (Robertson and Hull 2001). Environmental injustice can take many forms; at a basic level, it includes unequal burdens of environmental hazards (such as landfills, incinerators, Toxic Release Inventory sites, industrial livestock production) and unequal access to environmental amenities (such as parks) across geographies, communities, and populations, most strongly affecting communities of color (Abara et al 2012;Lerner 2005;Wilson 2009). The scholarly field of environmental justice-and EJ activists-insist that it is not only the geographic and demographic distribution of hazards and amenities that matters; also important are the political and social processes by which communities are allowed to control their environmental fate or are deprived of control (Holifield 2001).…”

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Reflecting on Efforts to Design an Inclusive Citizen Science Project in West Baltimore

Sorensen

Jordan

LaDeau

et al. 2019

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice

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Citizen science (CS) has been an increasingly utilized means by which scientists leverage members of the public to increase the amount of data collected and analyzed. However, the underrepresentation of individuals from certain socio-cultural groups can have consequences that can manifest in the scientific outcomes of those CS projects such as biases in the data. Additionally, this underrepresentation can potentially affect long-term viability and support of CS as a community of practice. CS programs that promote greater inclusivity would likely provide opportunities for communities to define, investigate, and address pressing issues in collaboration with professional scientists. In this paper we discuss a CS project that sought to include underrepresented communities in Baltimore, Maryland using Pandya's framework for inclusive CS. While the project met all of its scientific research goals, translating the CS for broader social outcomes in the community proved challenging. Here we highlight perspectives from local community members and research personnel about the barriers to CS engagement, challenges in translating scientific outcomes to social justice efforts, and opportunities to address these barriers in CS program development and design.

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confidence: 99%

Reflecting on Efforts to Design an Inclusive Citizen Science Project in West Baltimore

Sorensen

Jordan

LaDeau

et al. 2019

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice

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“…Third, theorizing the concurrence of infections and addictions would assist in demonstrating the ways that inequalities and pre-existing vulnerabilities, cluster, overlap and interact to facilitate new and emerging forms of social difference that constrain opportunities for healthy decision making. Vulnerability to infections and addictions are structured within socio-ecological systems, and as consistently demonstrated in the environmental justice literature, can be connected to socially constructed categorizations of race, ethnicity, class, and other social classifications that shape differential exposures to unhealthy and harmful environmental conditions (Abara et al, 2012; Mennis et al, 2016; Shortt et al, 2018). Building on concepts of environmental justice, recent critical race studies demonstrate how the centrality of race structures social and labor hierarchies in capitalist societies to ensure a “vulnerable supply of low-wage workers” through “dual-wage systems, racially exclusive labour unions, racialized divisions of labour, sharecropping, and related practices” (Robinson, 2000: 528).…”

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Infectious addictions: Geographies of colliding epidemics

King

Rishworth

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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Medical geography and health geography have made significant contributions to studies of human health by addressing the spatial patterns of disease exposure, location of health care services, and place-specific processes producing health and wellbeing. Human geography and human-environment geography have also contributed with emerging attention to the body, uncertainty, and health and environment interactions. What remains understudied are the co-occurrence of multiple disease patterns, including the relationships between infectious disease and addiction. We review geographic research on infectious disease and addiction to advance a theoretical framework that emphasizes the centrality of complexity, uncertainty, difference, and care in shaping human health.

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“…Environmental injustice can take many forms: at a basic level, it includes an unequal burden of environmental hazards (such as landfills, incinerators, polluted sites, industrial livestock production) and unequal access to environmental amenities (such as parks) across geographies, communities, and populations. Environmental injustice most strongly impacts communities of colour (Abara et al 2012;Wilson 2009). Environmental justice is not confined to the geographic and demographic distribution of hazards and amenities.…”

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Citizen Science, Health, and Environmental Justice

Ceccaroni

Woods

Sprinks

et al. 2021

The Science of Citizen Science

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This chapter considers the interface of citizen science, health, and environmental justice. We review citizen science research undertaken by civic educators, scientists, and communities that aims to broaden scientific knowledge and encourage democratic engagement and, more specifically, to address complex problems related to public health and the environment. We provide a review of the current state of existing citizen science projects and examine how citizen science, health, and environmental justice impact each other, both positively and negatively. Specific challenges that relate to these projects are discussed, especially those that are not obvious or applicable to more traditional citizen science projects.

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Environmental Justice and Infectious Disease: Gaps, Issues, and Research Needs

Cited by 21 publications

References 98 publications

Reflecting on Efforts to Design an Inclusive Citizen Science Project in West Baltimore

Reflecting on Efforts to Design an Inclusive Citizen Science Project in West Baltimore

Infectious addictions: Geographies of colliding epidemics

Citizen Science, Health, and Environmental Justice

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