GeoHealth Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) Science
Earth and Space Science
; 9(5), 2022.
Article
in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-1863833
ABSTRACT
GeoHealth research both characterizes and predicts problems at the nexus of earth and human systems like climate change, pollution, and natural hazards. While GeoHealth excels in the area of integrated science, there is a need to improve coordinated and networked efforts to produce open science to enable environmental justice. There is a need to resource and empower frontline populations that are disproportionately marginalized by environmental injustice (i.e., the unequal protection from environmental harms and lack of access and meaningful engagement in decision making for a healthy environment;EPA, 2022, https//www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice). GeoHealth practice has the opportunity to advance environmental justice or the “fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income” with respect to how research and collaboration of GeoHealth professionals supports the “development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies” that produce equal protection from environmental and health hazards and access to the decision making for a health environment (EPA, 2022, https//www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice). Here we highlight barriers and opportunities to apply an equity‐centered ICON framework to the field of GeoHealth to advance environmental justice and health equity.
Earth Sciences; GeoHealth; equity; collaboration; Environmental justice; Scientists; Environmental equity; Stormwater management; Environmental law; Health hazards; Health disparities; Climate change; Leadership; Community; COVID-19; Open access; Environmental hazards; Science education; Planning; Decision making; Empowerment; Sovereignty; Design; Crowdsourcing; Coronaviruses; Detroit Michigan; United States--US
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ProQuest Central
Language:
English
Journal:
Earth and Space Science
Year:
2022
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Article
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