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  • 16 - Gowanus Canal and Public Policy

  • from Part III - Community Psychology in Action
  • Edited by Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers, Long Island University, New York
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Community Psychology
    Published online:
    16 December 2021
    Print publication:
    16 December 2021, pp 331-343

  • Summary

    Using historical, ethnographic, and archival research, this chapter examines the intersection of environmental policies and community well-being through the lens of community psychology, particularly its attention to the entwinement of socioeconomic and environmental conditions. Focusing on the Gowanus community in Brooklyn, New York, which is midway through a federally mandated environmental cleanup as a Superfund site, we describe how advancing the collective well-being at the scale of the neighborhood can also entail challenging entrenched power structures that have supported systemic inequalities and working within a diverse group. The collective efforts of the Gowanus Canal Community Advisory Group illustrate how chronic toxic environmental degradation can be addressed within an extended collaborative process. We conclude that while endeavoring to improve the surrounding physical environment, the Group’s efforts have also strengthened collaborative engagement across groups to foster community well-being and social justice.

  • Coverage of National Priority List sites by the print media during the implementation of Superfund: the role of race and income

  • Robert D. Mohr, Cindy Cunningham, Shrawantee Saha, Marco Vincenzi
  • Journal:
    Agricultural and Resource Economics Review / Volume 50 / Issue 3 / December 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 September 2021, pp. 559-582
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  • We review 1982–1984 articles identifying Superfund sites in three national newspapers. Articles almost never identify the race of nearby residents. Based on sites receiving disproportionate coverage, readers might conclude that Superfund generally affected white, working-class families, but results do not support this narrative. In a pooled sample, neither race nor income predicts the number of times a site gets mentioned. When the sample is partitioned by newspaper or by each newspaper's coverage of nearby sites, a positive relationship emerges between the proportion of Hispanic or nonwhite residents and the number of articles about a site. We discuss this apparent contradiction.