Utilization of the Maryland Environmental Justice Screening Tool: A Bladensburg, Maryland Case Study.

CalEnviroScreen EJSCREEN environmental justice geographic information systems vulnerable populations

Journal

International journal of environmental research and public health
ISSN: 1660-4601
Titre abrégé: Int J Environ Res Public Health
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101238455

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
26 01 2019
Historique:
received: 21 11 2018
revised: 21 01 2019
accepted: 22 01 2019
entrez: 30 1 2019
pubmed: 30 1 2019
medline: 18 6 2019
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Maryland residents' knowledge of environmental hazards and their health effects is limited, partly due to the absence of tools to map and visualize distribution of risk factors across sociodemographic groups. This study discusses the development of the Maryland EJSCREEN (MD EJSCREEN) tool by the National Center for Smart Growth in partnership with faculty at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. The tool assesses environmental justice risks similarly to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) EJSCREEN tool and California's tool, CalEnviroScreen 3.0. We discuss the architecture and functionality of the tool, indicators of importance, and how it compares to USEPA's EJSCREEN and CalEnviroScreen. We demonstrate the use of MD EJSCREEN through a case study on Bladensburg, Maryland, a town in Prince George's County (PG) with several environmental justice concerns including air pollution from traffic and a concrete plant. Comparison reveals that environmental and demographic indicators in MD EJSCREEN most closely resemble those in EPA EJSCREEN, while the scoring is most similar to CalEnviroScreen. Case study results show that Bladensburg has a Prince George's environmental justice score of 0.99, and that National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) air toxics cancer risk is concentrated in communities of color.

Identifiants

pubmed: 30691155
pii: ijerph16030348
doi: 10.3390/ijerph16030348
pmc: PMC6388180
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Comparative Study Evaluation Study Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

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Auteurs

Aubree Driver (A)

Public Health Science Program, University of Maryland, 255 Campus Drive, College Park, MD 20740, USA. adriver@umd.edu.

Crystal Mehdizadeh (C)

Public Health Science Program, University of Maryland, 255 Campus Drive, College Park, MD 20740, USA. crystalm@umd.edu.

Samuel Bara-Garcia (S)

Public Health Science Program, University of Maryland, 255 Campus Drive, College Park, MD 20740, USA. sbaragarcia13@gmail.com.

Coline Bodenreider (C)

Environmental Science and Technology Department, University of Maryland, 1451 Animal Science Bldg, College Park, MD 20742-2315, USA. cbodenr1@umd.edu.

Jessica Lewis (J)

Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College, 500 College Ave, Swarthmore, PA 19081, USA. Jlewis2@swarthmore.edu.

Sacoby Wilson (S)

Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, University of Maryland, 255 Valley Drive, College Park, MD 20742, USA. swilson2@umd.edu.

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