SAGE Journal Articles

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Journal Article 1: Greenberg, M., Lowrie, K., Solitare, L., & Duncan, L. (2000). Brownfields, Toads, and the struggle for neighborhood redevelopment: A case study of the state of New Jersey. Urban Affairs Review, 35(5), 717-733.

Abstract: A survey was made of all municipalities in the state of New Jersey (N = 566) to determine how many had brownfields sites that caused property devaluation and land-use changes beyond the site boundaries. Most municipalities (80%, n = 450) replied; 10% indicated that brownfields sites caused neighborhood impacts, and 3% reported land-use and neighborhood impacts more than one-quarter mile from the site and multiple land-use changes as a result of a brownfield site. Typically, this last group of neighborhoods also had neighborhood problems such as unsafe conditions and inadequate services. Policy suggestions for this group of highly stressed neighborhoods are discussed.

 

Journal Article 2: Chambers, S. (2007). Minority empowerment and environmental justice. Urban Affairs Review, 43(1), 28-54.

Abstract: In Hartford, Connecticut, environmental health problems disproportionately affect poor and minority residents of the city. Minority group activists in Hartford have created a multiracial organization composed of urban and suburban residents to fight for environmental justice. The organization has achieved a measure of success in terms of governmental responsiveness to their concerns. This article highlights the strategies used by the organization to advance its interests.

 

Journal Article 3: Mmerkeki, D., Li, B., & Meng, L. (2014). Hazardous and toxic waste management in Botswana: Practices and challenges. Waste Management & Research, 32(12), 1158-1168.

Abstract: Botswana lacks a system covering all the critical steps from importation to final disposal or processing of hazardous and toxic waste owing to limited follow-up of the sources and types of hazardous and toxic waste, lack of modern and specialized treatment/disposal facilities, technical know-how, technically skilled manpower, funds and capabilities of local institutions to take lead in waste management. Therefore, because of a lack of an integrated system, there are challenges such as lack of cooperation among all the stakeholders about the safe management of hazardous and toxic waste.

 

Journal Article 4: Bolsen, T., Druckman, J. N., & Cook, F. L. (2015). Citizens’, scientists’, and policy advisors’ beliefs about global warming. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 658(1), 271-295.

Abstract: Numerous factors shape citizens’ beliefs about global warming, but there is very little research that compares the views of the public with key actors in the policymaking process. We analyze data from simultaneous and parallel surveys of (1) the U.S. public, (2) scientists who actively publish research on energy technologies in the United States, and (3) congressional policy advisors and find that beliefs about global warming vary markedly among them. Scientists and policy advisors are more likely than the public to express a belief in the existence and anthropogenic nature of global warming.