| Category | Air |
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| Keywords | pcbr, policy, political organizing, ej approach, community-based organizations |
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| Title | Community-Based Participatory Research as a Tool for Policy Change: A Case Study of the Southern California Environmental Justice Collaborative |
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| Comments | This article provides an account of a successful Southern California Environmental Justice Collaborative, which employed community-based participatory research to mobilize for policy change. The collaborative encouraged regulatory agencies to amend a rule governing maximum individual cancer risk from stationary facilities, reducing acceptable risk levels by 75%. The collaborative framed the issue as cumulative, rather than individual risk assessment.
The collaborative was successful due to both internal and external factors. It was viewed positively by regulators as a source of both credible research and popular support. The authors also attribute the collaborative’s success to its relationships with decision makers regional focus as well as the context of a recovering and regulation-friendly economy. |
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| Author(s) | Petersen, D., M. Minkler, V. Breckwich Vasquez< and A. Corage Baden |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Appeared In | Review of Policy Research #23 (vol. 2), pp. 339–354 |
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