Citizen Activism for Environmental Health
The Growth of a Powerful New Grassroots Health Movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9753101 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lois Marie Gibbs (Center for Health Justice, corresponding author), Lois Gibbs (Center For Health, Environment and Justice) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 584 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 97-109 |
| 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 | 10.1177/0002716202584001007 |
| OpenAlex | W4255427142 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
The year 2003 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Love Canal crisis, when more than 900 working-class families were relocated away from a leaking toxic waste dump and the nation awoke to the hazards of toxic chemicals in our environment. This grassroots effort demonstrated how ordinary citizens obtained power through community organizing and succeeded against great odds. The events at Love Canal sparked a new social justice movement. While traditional environmentalism has focused on protecting the natural environment using legislative and regulatory strategies, the grassroots leadership of this new movement focuses on protecting public health through building power at the local and state levels to influence federal policies. Many members of this movement believe their neighborhoods were deliberately targeted because of their economic and political weakness. As a result, this is a movement that is as much about justice and human rights as it is about public health and the environment
Craft · Economic Justice · Environmental justice · Environmental movement · Environmentalism · Geography · Grassroots · Legislature · Movement (music · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public health · Social movement · State (computer science · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Law · Medicine · Public Administration · Public Health Policies and Education
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Science, Ethics, and the Eco-Social Worker
Collaborative Frame Construction in Social Movement Campaigns
A systematic review of the outcomes of sustained environmental collective action
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Using Visual Images to Achieve Environmental Justice
Peri-Urbanism in Globalizing India
Access to Interpretable Data to Support Disproportionate Health Risks from Industrial Releases
Characterising topophilic behaviour in the wake of river decay and pollution through structural equation modelling
Constructing insignificance
Protecting the power to pollute
Re-engaging social relationships and collective dimensions of organizing to revive democratic practice
Health Activism
Non-stick science
The Rituals of Public Meetings
Social capital, environmental health and collective action
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| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,48 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2025 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |