Utilization of the Maryland Environmental Justice Screening Tool: A Bladensburg, Maryland Case Study
Utilization of the Maryland Environmental Justice Screening Tool: A Bladensburg, Maryland Case Study
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10.3390/ijerph16030348
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2019-02-01
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Wilson, Sacoby
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Driver, Aubree;Mehdizadeh, Crystal;Wilson, Sacoby
马里兰州居民对环境危害及其健康影响的了解有限，部分原因是缺乏绘制和可视化社会人口群体中风险因素分布的工具。本研究讨论了马里兰州EJSCREEN（MD EJSCREEN）工具的开发，由国家智能增长中心与马里兰州大学公共卫生学院的教师合作。该工具评估的环境正义风险类似于美国环境保护署（USEPA）的EJSCREEN工具和加州的工具CalEnviroScreen 3.0。我们讨论的架构和功能的工具，指标的重要性，以及它如何比较美国环保局的EJSCREEN和CalEnviroScreen。我们展示了使用MD EJSCREEN通过对布莱登斯堡，马里兰州，在乔治王子县（PG）的一个小镇的案例研究，包括交通和混凝土厂的空气污染的几个环境正义的问题。比较显示，MD EJSCREEN中的环境和人口指标与EPA EJSCREEN中的最接近，而评分与CalEnviroScreen最相似。案例研究结果表明，布莱登斯堡的乔治王子环境正义得分为0.99，国家空气毒性评估（NATA）空气毒性癌症风险集中在有色人种社区。
Maryland residents' knowledge of environmental hazards and their health effects is limited, partly due to the absence of tools to map and visualize distribution of risk factors across sociodemographic groups. This study discusses the development of the Maryland EJSCREEN (MD EJSCREEN) tool by the National Center for Smart Growth in partnership with faculty at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. The tool assesses environmental justice risks similarly to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) EJSCREEN tool and California's tool, CalEnviroScreen 3.0. We discuss the architecture and functionality of the tool, indicators of importance, and how it compares to USEPA's EJSCREEN and CalEnviroScreen. We demonstrate the use of MD EJSCREEN through a case study on Bladensburg, Maryland, a town in Prince George's County (PG) with several environmental justice concerns including air pollution from traffic and a concrete plant. Comparison reveals that environmental and demographic indicators in MD EJSCREEN most closely resemble those in EPA EJSCREEN, while the scoring is most similar to CalEnviroScreen. Case study results show that Bladensburg has a Prince George's environmental justice score of 0.99, and that National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) air toxics cancer risk is concentrated in communities of color.