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The EEB works to ensure that European laws concerning air quality and noise pollution, protect people and ecosystems from the significant threats posed.
"Being in nature is a health activity, even if it’s just sitting on a park bench. Urban populations, especially Black and Brown communities, don’t often get equal access to green space. These organizations are working to change that."
This paper discusses the link between green spaces and some of the nation’s leading health issues such as obesity, cardiovascular health, heat-related illness, and psychological health.
City parks make people happier and healthier, a fact that fueled the movement to build them in the 1800s. But those benefits are not equitably distributed.
Neighborhoods with greater Black populations and less wealth or environmental justice communities are barred from the health benefits of green spaces due to physical distance.
"The confluence of two pandemics — the novel coronavirus and the longstanding racist police violence, particularly against Black people — exposes the brutal realities of health and mortality disparities for people of color due to historical and systemic racism and discrimination. "
Urban Environmental Racism
How the Other Half Eats by Priya Fielding-Singh
Call Number: 363.8 FIE
ISBN: 9780316427265
Publication Date: 2021-11-16
"Inequality in America manifests in many ways, but perhaps nowhere more than in how we eat. From her years of field research, sociologist and ethnographer Priya Fielding-Singh brings us into the kitchens of dozens of families from varied educational, economic, and ethnoracial backgrounds to explore how--and why--we eat the way we do."
In this podcast, sociologist and author of What the Other Half Eats, Priya Fielding-Singh, discussing how food inequality permeates our society and what can be done about it.
Today, many studies conducted in these areas show that these communities have disproportionately been victims of hazardous pollutants, causing a plethora of health issues.
Living in a large city, and one that has a rep for being segregated, made me realize how living just 30 minutes apart makes all the difference in how someone grows up.
Today’s urban challenges are embedded with critical inequities in how people and communities relate to and are affected by their surrounding environments.
However, rapidly introducing attractive green spaces to areas that historically lack environmental resources creates a process known as “green gentrification.”
The Black Lives Matter protests and national uprisings this summer reinforce how anti-Blackness and structural racism are deeply rooted in the foundations of American institutions.
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Rural (Farmer) Environmental Racism
A Terrible Thing to Waste by Harriet A. Washington
Call Number: 305.801 WAS
ISBN: 9780316509435
Publication Date: 2019
A "powerful and indispensable" look at the devastating consequences of environmental racism (Gerald Markowitz) -- and what we can do to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities."
A presentation from the Environmental Justice: A Challenge for the 21st Century seminar (July 1997), from the Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy.
Environmental justice is a significant and pressing issue that affects many rural communities across the United States, impacting not only Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities but also white, poor, and working-class areas.
But to many Black, Latinx, and Indigenous residents who live near the state’s giant pig farms, the smell is more associated with nausea, anxiety, breathing problems, and racial discrimination.
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