Environmental Justice Organizing for Environmental Health
Case Study on Asthma and Diesel Exhaust in Roxbury, Massachusetts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9753400 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Penn Loh (0000-0003-1451-5999, Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE), corresponding author), Jodi Sugerman-Brozan (Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE)) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 584 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 110-124 |
| Publication date | 2002-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271620258400108 |
| OpenAlex | W2149970882 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 4 |
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
Asthma · Diesel engine · Diesel exhaust · Diesel fuel · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Environmental health · Environmental justice · Environmental planning · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Sociology · Waste management · Engineering · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Environmental Science · Internal Medicine · Law · Medicine
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| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,32 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2025 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |