Who is Planning for Environmental Justice, And How.

ABSTRACT:

Problem research strategy and findings

Environmental justice (EJ) seeks to correct legacies of disproportionately burdening low-income and Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities with environmental hazards that contribute to health inequalities. Federal and state policies increasingly require plans to assess and incorporate EJ principles. The current lack of accessible data and plan evaluation on EJ has been a barrier to policy setting and benchmarking. We created a framework for analyzing content across a large corpus of plans by using quantitative text analysis on 461 California city general plans, also known as comprehensive plans. To verify results and identify specific policies, we conducted content analysis on a subset of seven plans. Demonstrating the broa

SUBMITTER: Brinkley C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11370866 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature