Street Science: Community Knowledge and Environmental Health Justice (Urban and Industrial Environments) Pdf

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2005-08-19
Publisher: The MIT Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0262532727
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Street Science pdf
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When environmental health problems arise in a community, policymakers must be able to reconcile the first-hand experience of local residents with recommendations by scientists. In this highly original look at environmental health policymaking, Jason Corburn shows the ways that local knowledge can be combined with professional techniques to achieve better solutions for environmental health problems. He traces the efforts of a low-income community in Brooklyn to deal with environmental health problems in its midst and offers a framework for understanding "street science" -- decision making that draws on community knowledge and contributes to environmental justice.Like many other low-income urban communities, the Greenpoint/Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn suffers more than its share of environmental problems, with a concentra Download Street Science for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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