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5157.0: Wednesday, November 10, 2004: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| There is a growing recognition that air toxics pose a significant risk to community health. Yet, community efforts to understand and address this concern have been hampered by the lack of adequate information on air risks at the community level. Environmental justice neighborhoods in the Cities of St. Louis, New York, and Boston, as well as the states of Michigan and Massachussettes have taken a pioneering role in working for healthier air. The efforts highlighted are creating innovative means that allow vulnerable populations to become more aware and empowered of what can be done to reduce air toxics through personal, community, and public means. While these residents have some of the lowest incomes, they also happen to have the highest rates of asthma, lead poisoning and particulate matter in their cities and states. These projects have created unique, active and effective partnerships to work through extraordinary communication and behavior challenges. This presentation will describe key partnerships amongst community organizers, members, and leaders. These and other partners have investigated and found effective means to use local assets to develop strong solutions. The partners’ efforts necessarily have integrated many facets of environmental stewardship – including waste management, personal actions, micro-enterprise, collaborative actions and soil/air/water interactive educational materials for the full spectrum of lifelong learning. This presentation examines the demographic disparities in proximity to diesel facilities and the documented environmental health risks associated with diesel exhaust, using both quantitative and qualitative data in order to provide a framework for environmental justice disputes, and highlights effective tools for communities to address air toxics. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1) Describe how residential segregation and environmental justice are associated; 2) Identify ways of incorporating public health and environmental justice concerns into transportation planning; 3) Learn how to create a “cumulative pollution indices” database; 4) Identify the tools and resources developed to help communities understand and reduce risks from air toxics. | |||
| Nsedu Obot, MPH Sacoby M. Wilson, MS Shobha Srinivasan, PHD Daneen Farrow-Collier Kimberly Gray, PhD Max Weintraub, MS | |||
| Kristen Kuhar Sacoby M. Wilson, MS | |||
| New Tools and Resources to Help Communities Understand and Prioritize Risk from Air Toxics Henry C. Topper, PhD | |||
| If you live uptown, breathe at your own risk: Overcoming racial disparities in transportation-related environmental health risks in New York City Swati Prakash, MS | |||
| Community efforts to reduce air toxics using local assets Marcus G. Rivas | |||
| Environmental justice in Dearborn, MI: The health and social impacts of the Detroit Intermodal Freight Terminal (DIFT) on the Arab American community Lauren M. Zajac, Kim Wetzel, Gia Grier, Amy MacDonald, Sarah Lashley, Cari Varner, Kathryn Savoie, PhD, Elaine M. Hockman, PhD | |||
| Segregation and traffic density in Massachusetts Rana Charafeddine | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Public Health Education and Health Promotion | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||