ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Environmental Health

Environmental Health

Introduction

The environmental justice movement emerged in the 1980s at the intersection of environmentalist concerns about natural resources and social justice projects for health, equality, and civil and human rights. Environmental justice brings up questions about who pays the price for the development enjoyed by others. People throughout the world have organized to protect their communities from dangerous facilities and toxic substances. This paper summarizes one environmental justice public health issue and discusses the ways in which an intervention strategy or program policy might address this.

Discussion

Davis (1999) mentions that environmental justice activism is largely locally based, but activists work ...