Framing Environmental Health Decision-Making: The Struggle over Cumulative Impacts Policy.

ABSTRACT: Little progress has been made to advance U.S. federal policy responses to growing scientific findings about cumulative environmental health impacts and risks, which also show that many low income and racial and ethnic minority populations bear a disproportionate share of multiple environmental burdens. Recent scholarship points to a "standard narrative" by which policy makers rationalize their slow efforts on environmental justice because of perceived lack of data and analytical tools. Using a social constructivist approach, ethnographic research methods, and content analysis, we examined the social context of policy challenges related to cumulative risks and impacts in the state of Maryland between 2014 and 2016. We identified three frames about cumulative impacts as a health issue throug

SUBMITTER: Payne-Sturges DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8070174 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature