Community‐Based Participatory Research as a Tool for Policy Change: A Case Study of the Southern California Environmental Justice Collaborative

Petersen, Dana; Minkler, Meredith; Vásquez, Victoria Breckwich; Baden, Andrea Corage

doi:10.1111/j.1541-1338.2006.00204.x

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“…The scientific analysis helped the group to mobilize broader groups and conduct an effective media campaign and lobbying. In the end, they were able to achieve a substantial victory in changing a regional rule regarding cancer risk (Petersen et al 2006). This case suggests that communities need not be full participants in scientific research in order to achieve environmental justice victories.…”

Section: Typologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Citizen Science: Probing the Virtues and Contexts of Participatory Research

2016

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Citizen science is an increasingly popular activity, from bird counts to amateur water sample collection to air quality monitoring. Researchers and theorists in the field of science and technology studies (STS) have typically applauded these efforts because they make science more participatory, providing an example of the democratization of science, or, at least, more equitable engagement between experts and the lay public. However, a broader review of the literature on citizen science suggests that participation is but one of many virtues that practitioners and observers find in the practices of citizen science. This literature review makes two interventions. First, we discuss the dimensions of citizen science that do not easily fit in a typology or spectrum of participatory practices. We identify seven different virtues claimed of citizen science: increasing scientific data; increasing citizens' scientific literacy and awareness; building community capacity for environmental protection; building more equal relationship between scientists and citizens; filling knowledge gaps and challenging official accounts; driving policy change; and catching polluters. Second, we consider the social and political contexts that often create contradictory situations or dilemmas for citizen scientists. Going forward, a robust framework for the analysis of citizen science would not only address the ways scientific data is collected and put to a particular use, but also situate the project in relation to broader structural forces of scientization, neocolonialism, globalization, and neoliberalization.

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Section: Typologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Citizen Science: Probing the Virtues and Contexts of Participatory Research

2016

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“…4 Community-based participatory research is a collaborative effort that utilizes the strengths, resources, and relationships within communities to maximize the benefits of the research process through comprehensive and sustainable interventions to address identified needs. 42 The CBPR model is especially suited to the challenges and opportunities embedded in occupational health research with immigrant workers, and is particularly appropriate to Lawrence. 43 For several years, Lawrence residents, local government agencies, and community-based organizations have worked in collaboration to improve the physical environment, create jobs, foster economic development, and address the health of the community.…”

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confidence: 99%

Results of a community-based survey of construction safety climate for Hispanic workers

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2015

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

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Background: Hispanic construction workers experience high rates of occupational injury, likely influenced by individual, organizational, and social factors. Objectives: To characterize the safety climate of Hispanic construction workers using worker, contractor, and supervisor perceptions of the workplace. Methods: We developed a 40-item interviewer-assisted survey with six safety climate dimensions and administered it in Spanish and English to construction workers, contractors, and supervisors. A safety climate model, comparing responses and assessing contributing factors was created based on survey responses. Results: While contractors and construction supervisors' (n5128) scores were higher, all respondents shared a negative perception of safety climate. Construction workers had statistically significantly lower safety climate scores compared to supervisors and contractors (30.6 vs 46.5%, P,0.05). Safety climate scores were not associated with English language ability or years lived in the United States. Conclusions: We found that Hispanic construction workers in this study experienced a poor safety climate. The Hispanic construction safety climate model we propose can serve as a framework to guide organizational safety interventions and evaluate safety climate improvements.

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“…A growing trend in this area is the community-based participatory research, which emphasizes "involving community members in identifying issues in need of investigation, collaborating in the conduct of the research, and translating research-based findings into action, including advocacy for policy level change" (Petersen et al, 2006, p: 339). Case study evaluation of some of these efforts, especially in California, suggests significant success in the ability of these community-academic partnerships to affect policy change that benefits public health (Petersen et al, 2006;Minkler et al, 2008). The drawback of these case study evaluations is the difficulty in separating the effect of the partnerships from other contextual factors that contribute to the policy change.…”

Section: Previous Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%