- Title
- Environmental injustice and air pollution in coal affected communities, Hunter Valley, Australia
- Creator
- Higginbotham, Nick; Freeman, Sonia; Connor, Linda; Albrecht, Glenn
- Relation
- Health and Place Vol. 16, Issue 2, p. 259-266
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2009.10.007
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- The authors describe environmental injustice from air pollution in the Upper Hunter, Australia, and analyse the inaction of state authorities in addressing residents’ health concerns. Obstacles blocking a public-requested health study and air monitoring include: the interdependence of state government and corporations in reaping the economic benefits of coal production; lack of political will, regulatory inertia and procedural injustice; and study design and measurement issues. We analyse mining- and coal-related air pollution in a contested socio-political arena, where residents, civil society and local government groups struggle with corporations and state government over the burden of imposed health risk caused by air pollution.
- Subject
- environmental injustice; air pollution; health; Australia; coal; mining
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/926577
- Identifier
- uon:9876
- Identifier
- ISSN:1353-8292
- Language
- eng
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