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| ISBN: | 9780262270809
0262270803
1423747003
9781423747000
9780262033336
026203333X
9780262532723
0262532727
1282097172
9781282097179
9786612097171
6612097175
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-256) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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| Summary: | 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 concentration of polluting facilities and elevated levels of localized air pollutants. Corburn looks at four instances of street science in Greenpoint/Williamsburg, where community members and professionals combined forces to address the risks from subsistence fishing from the polluted East River, the asthma epidemic in the Latino community, childhood lead poisoning, and local sources of air pollution. These episodes highlight both the successes and the limits of street science and demonstrate ways residents can establish their own credibility when working with scientists. Street science, Corburn argues, does not devalue science; it revalues other kinds of information and democratizes the inquiry and decision making processes
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| Other form: | Print version: Corburn, Jason. Street science. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2005 026203333X 0262532727
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| Standard no.: | 9780262033336
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