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Title Environmental justice, local knowledge, and risk: The discourse of a community-based cumulative exposure assessment.
Author Corburn J.
Date 2002
Description The author suggests a shift from traditional risk assessment in environmental management, which may ignore the multiple hazards facing low-income populations, to exposure assessment. This paper also reviews the EPA's first community-based Cumulative Exposure Project in Brooklyn, New York.
Keywords risk factors, urban health
URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12071497
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