Madilena Campbell, Alison E. Adams, Thomas E. Shriver
Extant research has well established that exposure to infectious disease can be a significant problem for vulnerable populations that have been deemed "essential" during widespread health crises. We contribute to this growing body of literature by delineating the utility of the critical environmental justice (CEJ) framework for investigating infectious disease in the context of at-risk groups such as farmworker communities. Specifically, we highlight how the four pillars of CEJ are applicable to potential or real exposure to pathogens in farmworkers' living and working spaces, and how responses and support for these essential workers can be shaped by intersectional factors, the "expendability" of farmworkers, and broader state and corporate structural influences. We draw from a case study of Florida farmworker outreach professionals to center the perceptions and experiences of individuals working directly with farmworker communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conclude with a discussion of how our research contributes to the broader understanding of CEJ in the context of widespread health threats, as well as an overview of lessons learned for regulatory and health agencies.
{"title":"Critical Environmental Justice and Pandemic Events: Florida Farm Work during COVID-19","authors":"Madilena Campbell, Alison E. Adams, Thomas E. Shriver","doi":"10.1089/env.2022.0093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2022.0093","url":null,"abstract":"Extant research has well established that exposure to infectious disease can be a significant problem for vulnerable populations that have been deemed \"essential\" during widespread health crises. We contribute to this growing body of literature by delineating the utility of the critical environmental justice (CEJ) framework for investigating infectious disease in the context of at-risk groups such as farmworker communities. Specifically, we highlight how the four pillars of CEJ are applicable to potential or real exposure to pathogens in farmworkers' living and working spaces, and how responses and support for these essential workers can be shaped by intersectional factors, the \"expendability\" of farmworkers, and broader state and corporate structural influences. We draw from a case study of Florida farmworker outreach professionals to center the perceptions and experiences of individuals working directly with farmworker communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conclude with a discussion of how our research contributes to the broader understanding of CEJ in the context of widespread health threats, as well as an overview of lessons learned for regulatory and health agencies.","PeriodicalId":46143,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Justice","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78074866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indigenous Peoples and the Justice40 Screening Tool: Lessons from EJSCREEN","authors":"Haley Mullen, K. Whyte, R. Holifield","doi":"10.1089/env.2022.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2022.0045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46143,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Justice","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74425340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Grounding REDD+ as Democratization of Environmental Policy? Insights and Lessons from the Philippines","authors":"M. Manahan","doi":"10.1089/env.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46143,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Justice","volume":"145 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77455873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making Sense of Oil Pollution: Thresholds of Harm in the Extractive Ecologies of Val d'Agri","authors":"C. Selva","doi":"10.1089/env.2022.0069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2022.0069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46143,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Justice","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84757542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Emergence of Amazonian Indigenous Defenders: The Case of the Centro Arenal Community","authors":"César Gamboa, Carlos Quispe Dávila","doi":"10.1089/env.2022.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2022.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46143,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Justice","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82791788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Expanding the Definition of Environmental Justice in Superfund Redevelopment: A Case Study of the American Creosote Works, Inc. Site","authors":"Riley Dibble, Kwame N. Owusu-Daaku","doi":"10.1089/env.2022.0064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2022.0064","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46143,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Justice","volume":"6 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72542929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Cannon, A. McInturff, P. Alagona, David N. Pellow
{"title":"Wild Urban Injustice: A Critical POET Model to Advance Environmental Justice","authors":"C. Cannon, A. McInturff, P. Alagona, David N. Pellow","doi":"10.1089/env.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46143,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Justice","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78377538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vivek Ravichandran, Sophia D'Alonzo, Symone Stephens, Apoorva Ajith, Rose Hu, Sacoby M. Wilson
{"title":"Holding State Agencies Accountable: The Creation of an Environmental Justice Scorecard for Maryland State Agencies","authors":"Vivek Ravichandran, Sophia D'Alonzo, Symone Stephens, Apoorva Ajith, Rose Hu, Sacoby M. Wilson","doi":"10.1089/env.2022.0080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2022.0080","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46143,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Justice","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88860974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unincorporated and Underserved: Critical Stormwater Infrastructure Challenges in South Texas Colonias","authors":"D. Rivera","doi":"10.1089/env.2022.0062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2022.0062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46143,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Justice","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91040925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shannon Elizabeth Bell, Stephen Gerus, Danielle R. Mullins, Michael Hughes
As a wide body of social movement scholarship demonstrates, inaction in the face of environmental injustice is far more frequent than mobilization. Using the case of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP)—a highly controversial natural gas pipeline that has been under construction through the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia and West Virginia since 2018—we ask: what conditions predict whether a person who has experienced negative quality-of-life impacts from this pipeline will take action or resign themselves to quiescence? Through our analysis of responses to a 92-question survey questionnaire that our team mailed to residents living in 10 of the counties through which the MVP is being constructed, we find that the most powerful predictors of quiescence are variables related to social networks. Among respondents reporting negative quality-of-life impacts from the pipeline, those with neighbors supporting the pipeline were nine times more likely to be quiescent, and those who were not sure how their neighbors felt about the pipeline were five times more likely to be quiescent. On the other hand, those who had joined a social media group focused on stopping the pipeline were nine times more likely to take part in resistance actions than those who had not. We situate our findings within existing scholarship on social movements, which points to the centrality of social networks for predicting social movement participation and quiescence, while also adding nuance to discussions of neoliberalism and sites of acceptance.
{"title":"Resistance, Acceptance, and Quiescence: The Role of Social Networks in Predicting Responses to a New Natural Gas Pipeline","authors":"Shannon Elizabeth Bell, Stephen Gerus, Danielle R. Mullins, Michael Hughes","doi":"10.1089/env.2021.0112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2021.0112","url":null,"abstract":"As a wide body of social movement scholarship demonstrates, inaction in the face of environmental injustice is far more frequent than mobilization. Using the case of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP)—a highly controversial natural gas pipeline that has been under construction through the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia and West Virginia since 2018—we ask: what conditions predict whether a person who has experienced negative quality-of-life impacts from this pipeline will take action or resign themselves to quiescence? Through our analysis of responses to a 92-question survey questionnaire that our team mailed to residents living in 10 of the counties through which the MVP is being constructed, we find that the most powerful predictors of quiescence are variables related to social networks. Among respondents reporting negative quality-of-life impacts from the pipeline, those with neighbors supporting the pipeline were nine times more likely to be quiescent, and those who were not sure how their neighbors felt about the pipeline were five times more likely to be quiescent. On the other hand, those who had joined a social media group focused on stopping the pipeline were nine times more likely to take part in resistance actions than those who had not. We situate our findings within existing scholarship on social movements, which points to the centrality of social networks for predicting social movement participation and quiescence, while also adding nuance to discussions of neoliberalism and sites of acceptance.","PeriodicalId":46143,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Justice","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135803693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}