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A Scoping Review of Capacity-Building Efforts to Address Environmental Justice Concerns

Environmental justice (EJ) efforts aimed at capacity building are essential to addressing environmental health disparities; however, limited attention has been given to describing these efforts. This study reports findings from a scoping review of community–academic partnerships and community-led ef...

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Autores principales: Williamson, Dana H. Z., Yu, Emma X., Hunter, Candis M., Kaufman, John A., Komro, Kelli, Jelks, Na’Taki Osborne, Johnson, Dayna A., Gribble, Matthew O., Kegler, Michelle C.
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Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7312702/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32466474
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17113765
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author Williamson, Dana H. Z.
Yu, Emma X.
Hunter, Candis M.
Kaufman, John A.
Komro, Kelli
Jelks, Na’Taki Osborne
Johnson, Dayna A.
Gribble, Matthew O.
Kegler, Michelle C.
author_facet Williamson, Dana H. Z.
Yu, Emma X.
Hunter, Candis M.
Kaufman, John A.
Komro, Kelli
Jelks, Na’Taki Osborne
Johnson, Dayna A.
Gribble, Matthew O.
Kegler, Michelle C.
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description Environmental justice (EJ) efforts aimed at capacity building are essential to addressing environmental health disparities; however, limited attention has been given to describing these efforts. This study reports findings from a scoping review of community–academic partnerships and community-led efforts to address environmental inequities related to air, water, and land pollution in the United States. Literature published in peer-reviewed journals from January 1986 through March 2018 were included, and community capacity theory was applied as a framework for understanding the scope of capacity-building and community change strategies to address EJ concerns. Paired teams of independent analysts conducted a search for relevant articles (n = 8452 citations identified), filtered records for content abstraction and possible inclusion (n = 163) and characterized selected studies (n = 58). Most articles implemented activities that were aligned with community capacity dimensions of citizen participation (96.4%, n = 53), community power (78%, n = 45), leadership (78%, n = 45), and networks (81%, n = 47); few articles identified a direct policy change (22%, n = 13), and many articles discussed the policy implications of findings for future work (62%, n = 36). This review synthesizes three decades of efforts to reduce environmental inequities and identifies strategic approaches used for strengthening community capacity.
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spelling pubmed-73127022020-06-26 A Scoping Review of Capacity-Building Efforts to Address Environmental Justice Concerns Williamson, Dana H. Z. Yu, Emma X. Hunter, Candis M. Kaufman, John A. Komro, Kelli Jelks, Na’Taki Osborne Johnson, Dayna A. Gribble, Matthew O. Kegler, Michelle C. Int J Environ Res Public Health Review Environmental justice (EJ) efforts aimed at capacity building are essential to addressing environmental health disparities; however, limited attention has been given to describing these efforts. This study reports findings from a scoping review of community–academic partnerships and community-led efforts to address environmental inequities related to air, water, and land pollution in the United States. Literature published in peer-reviewed journals from January 1986 through March 2018 were included, and community capacity theory was applied as a framework for understanding the scope of capacity-building and community change strategies to address EJ concerns. Paired teams of independent analysts conducted a search for relevant articles (n = 8452 citations identified), filtered records for content abstraction and possible inclusion (n = 163) and characterized selected studies (n = 58). Most articles implemented activities that were aligned with community capacity dimensions of citizen participation (96.4%, n = 53), community power (78%, n = 45), leadership (78%, n = 45), and networks (81%, n = 47); few articles identified a direct policy change (22%, n = 13), and many articles discussed the policy implications of findings for future work (62%, n = 36). This review synthesizes three decades of efforts to reduce environmental inequities and identifies strategic approaches used for strengthening community capacity. MDPI 2020-05-26 2020-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7312702/ /pubmed/32466474 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17113765 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Yu, Emma X.
Hunter, Candis M.
Kaufman, John A.
Komro, Kelli
Jelks, Na’Taki Osborne
Johnson, Dayna A.
Gribble, Matthew O.
Kegler, Michelle C.
A Scoping Review of Capacity-Building Efforts to Address Environmental Justice Concerns
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7312702/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32466474
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17113765
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