A tool to identify disadvantaged communities due to environmental, socioeconomic and health burdens - usds/justice40-tool
A major component of those plans is emphasizing and achieving climate justice – by identifying a set of "disadvantaged communities" that would get at least 35% of the benefits of clean energy and energy efficiency project spending. The plan also requires that the state prioritizes these areas f...
Husain, MisbahScanlan, Melissa K.Seton Hall Law Review
Environmental justice California Media Policy Frontline communities 1. Introduction Rural disadvantaged communities in California experience a disproportionate share of the most pressing social, environmental, and economic challenges. These challenges co-occur creating a compounding effect that leads to structural...
the following criteria: household income below 50% of the Alameda County median, non-minor dependent youth (AB-12 youth – emancipated foster youth), homeless, welfare recipients, or veterans and have a history of involvement with the criminal justice system, are unemployed, or a single parent....
We found that staff who demonstrate highly effective skills and knowledge are offered licensed autonomy for innovation and experimentation by leaders, and these schools are genuine learning communities, seeking to improve provision. Importantly, teachers and adults have the autonomy to shape their teaching...
[57]. Finally, we believe that our findings will contribute to the WHO’s Global Oral Health Action Plan: “Addressing oral health inequalities is a matter of social justice, ethical public health policy and professional practice” (WHO, 2022, p.22), by using parents’ experiential knowledge ...
(Wilson,2012). Urban communities that are less economically developed tend to have worse health conditions and health outcomes than more developed ones (Kawachi & Kennedy,1999; Pickett & Pearl,2001; Pickett & Wilkinson,2015). Economic poverty significantly impacts pregnancy outcomes, child development...
Access to Justice for Disadvantaged Communities BY MARJORIE MAYO, GERALD KOESSL, MATTHEW SCOTT AND IMOGEN SLATER Bristol: Policy Press, 2014. ISBN 978‐1‐4473‐1102‐7; 70.00 (hbk).Paul Hoggett (ed.), Contested Communities: Experiences, Struggles, Policies, The Policy Press, Bristol, 1997, ...
This article maps a meshwork of formal and informal elements of places called Disadvantaged Unincorporated Communities (DUCs) to understand the role of informality in producing unjust access to safe drinking water in California's San Joaquin Valley. It examines the spatial, racial, and class-based ...