Bridging Silos Collaborating for Environmental Health and Justice in Urban Communities

• Main Author: Korfmacher, Katrina Smith (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2019
• Series: Urban and Industrial Environments
• Subjects: Environmental factors; Urban & municipal planning; Environmental policy; Public health; Environmental justice; Health equity; Local environmental policy; Health in All Policies; Policies Systems and Environments; Childhood lead poisoning; Air quality; Built environment; Healthy communities; Health Impact Assessment; housing; housing policy; urban planning; brownfields; food access; food deserts; transportation; southern California; poverty; systems change
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How communities can collaborate across systems and sectors to address environmental health disparities; with case studies from Rochester, New York; Duluth, Minnesota; and Southern California. Low-income and marginalized urban communities often suffer disproportionate exposure to environmental hazard...