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Promoting Environmental Justice Through Community-Based Participatory Research: The Role of Community and Partnership Capacity

Meredith Minkler, DrPH1*, Victoria Breckwich Vásquez, MA, MPH, DrPH1, Mansoureh Tajik, PhD2, Dana Petersen, MA, MPH3

1 School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley.
2 Department of Community Health and Sustainability School of Health and Environment, University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
3 Policy Division SRI International, Menlo Park, California.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mink{at}berkeley.edu..


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Community-based participatory research (CBPR) increasingly is being used to study and address environmental justice. This article presents the results of a cross-site case study of four CBPR partnerships in the United States that researched environmental health problems and worked to educate legislators and promote relevant public policy. The authors focus on community and partnership capacity within and across sites, using as a theoretical framework Goodman and his colleagues' dimensions of community capacity, as these were tailored to environmental health by Freudenberg, and as further modified to include partnership capacity within a systems perspective. The four CBPR partnerships examined were situated in NewYork, California, Oklahoma, and North Carolina and were part of a larger national study. Case study contexts and characteristics, policy-related outcomes, and findings related to community and partnership capacity are presented, with implications drawn for other CBPR partnerships with a policy focus.

Key Words: community-based participatory research, environmental justice, public policy, community-academic partnerships

First published on July 21, 2006, doi:10.1177/1090198106287692

Health Education & Behavior 2008;35:119.

A more recent version of this article appeared on February 1, 2008

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