Bridging silos : : collaborating for environmental health and justice in urban communities / / Katrina Smith Korfmacher.

How communities can collaborate across systems and sectors to address environmental health disparities; with case studies from Rochester, New York; Duluth, Minnesota; and Southern California. Low-income and marginalized urban communities often suffer disproportionate exposure to environmental hazard...

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Superior document:Urban and industrial environments
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge : : MIT Press,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Urban and industrial environments.
Physical Description:1 online resource (377 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Changing local systems to promote environmental health and justice
  • Standing silos : a brief history of public health and environmental management
  • Building bridges : systems approaches to local environmental health problems
  • The coalition to prevent lead poisoning : promoting primary prevention in Rochester, NY
  • Healthy Duluth : toward equity in the built environment
  • The impact project : trade, health, and environment around southern California's ports
  • Local environmental health initiatives : the impacts of collaboration
  • The promise of local environmental health initiatives.