Risk perceptions and the maintenance of environmental injustice in Appalachia

Greenberg, Pierce

doi:10.1080/23251042.2019.1647602

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“…Although nearly half of respondents reported having a familial affiliation with the mining industry, mining-related employment opportunities in the study area are limited [ 27 ]. Studies where an affiliation with a polluting industry has influenced behavioral intentions have been conducted in areas where the industry plays a more influential economic role than is currently the case in the study area (e.g., [ 42 ]).…”

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“…Gender may influence behavior because women and children are more vulnerable to negative health outcomes from Pb exposure and might be more likely to practice health behaviors [40,41]. Affiliation with mining is likely relevant because several previous studies have linked involvement in livelihoods related to a polluting industry with lower perceived health risk [42,43].…”

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Perceived Risk and Intentions to Practice Health Protective Behaviors in a Mining-Impacted Region

Cooper

Langman

Sarathchandra

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Effective risk communication strategies are critical to reducing lead exposure in mining-impacted communities. Understanding the strength of the associations between perceived risk and individuals’ behavioral intentions to protect their health is important for developing these strategies. We conducted a survey within three communities of northern Idaho, USA (n = 306) in or near a Superfund Megasite with legacy mining contamination. Survey data were used to test a theoretical model based on the Health Belief Model. Respondents had higher intentions to practice health protective behaviors when they perceived the risk of lead contamination as severe and recognized the benefits of practicing health protective behaviors. Women reported higher behavioral intentions than men, but age and mining affiliation were not significantly associated with behavioral intentions. Although managing lead hazards in communities impacted by mining is challenging due to widely distributed contamination, effective health risk messages, paired with remediation, are powerful tools to protect the health and safety of residents.

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Perceived Risk and Intentions to Practice Health Protective Behaviors in a Mining-Impacted Region

Cooper

Langman

Sarathchandra

et al. 2020

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“…In the Appalachian region and coal country around the continent, maintenance of the white supremacist, patriarchal gender structure is dependent on a human‐exemptionalism approach to the land, where coal is extracted at great cost to human—particularly nonwhite—and ecosystem health but persists as a culturally‐respected, white masculine practice (Bell et al., 2019; Feng, 2020; Kojola, 2019; Lewin, 2019; Thompson, 2019). In fact, the risk perception can be low among white residents living near coal impoundments—whose homes have been and could be destroyed from impoundment failure—as a result of the industry's cultural prominence (Greenberg, 2020). Cultural trust in extractive industries, fueled by faith in economic beneficence to a community, is found to be a central reason for low risk perception and lack of reflexivity about the implication of extractive industries in social and ecological disasters (Milnes & Haney, 2017; Stoddart & Quinn Burt, 2020).…”

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The raced and gendered persistence of human‐exemptionalism

Dotson

2024

Sociology Compass

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This paper makes the case for a reconsideration of the human exemptionalist paradigm in sociological research. Reviewing recent research on the racialized and gendered dimensions of environmental use and abuse in North America, this paper argues that the persistent belief that humans dominate over all other biota is a direct result of the white supremacist, patriarchal gender system. Traditional Anglo‐European performances of and expectations for masculinity not only mandate the subjugation of women, but of all biota. Consequently, the burdens for repair and regeneration are disproportionately placed upon feminized subjects. This racialized gender system is strengthened as long as human exemptionalism persists. Ultimately, sociologists should contend with ‘human supremacy’ as a system of inequality that strengthens all other systems of inequality that plague human society. Moving forward, theories of liberation must go beyond the species boundary to account for an end to unjust domination of all life on Earth.

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“…Gender may influence behavior because women and children are more vulnerable to negative health outcomes from Pb exposure and might be more likely to practice health behaviors [47,48]. Affiliation with mining is likely relevant because several previous studies have linked involvement in livelihoods related to a polluting industry with lower perceived health risk [49,50].…”

Section: Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While nearly half of respondents reported having a familial affiliation with the mining industry, mining-related employment opportunities in the Silver Valley are limited. Studies where an affiliation with a polluting industry has influenced behavioral intentions have been conducted in areas where the polluting industry plays a more influential economic role than is currently the case in the Silver Valley (e.g., [49]).…”

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Perceived Risk and Intentions to Practice Health Protective Behaviors in a Mining-Impacted Region

Cooper

Langman

Sarathchandra

et al. 2020

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Understanding the strength of the associations between perceived risk and individuals’ behavioral intentions to protect their health is important for determining appropriate risk communication strategies in communities impacted by lead contamination. We conducted a survey within communities of northern Idaho, USA (n = 306) near a Superfund megasite with legacy mining contamination. We empirically test a theoretical model based on the Health Belief Model. Survey respondents had higher intentions to practice health protective behaviors when they perceived the risk of lead contamination as severe, recognized the benefits of health protective behaviors, and considered the risks of lead contamination. Women reported higher behavioral intentions than men, but age and mining affiliation did not have an association. Survey comments indicated that perceptions about the long-term environmental remediation in the region influenced risk perceptions. Understanding risk perceptions, behavioral intentions, and related factors can aid public health agencies in tailoring risk communication for increasing protective behaviors in mining-impacted communities internationally.

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Risk perceptions and the maintenance of environmental injustice in Appalachia

Cited by 13 publications

References 41 publications

Perceived Risk and Intentions to Practice Health Protective Behaviors in a Mining-Impacted Region

Perceived Risk and Intentions to Practice Health Protective Behaviors in a Mining-Impacted Region

The raced and gendered persistence of human‐exemptionalism

Perceived Risk and Intentions to Practice Health Protective Behaviors in a Mining-Impacted Region

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