Environmental Justice and Air Quality
Here is the summary from our workshop on Dec 29th, 2011 Participatory Priority Ranking of EJ issues in Coachella Valley Ryan G. Sinclair PhD, MPH – rsinclair@llu.edu Loma Linda University Department of Environmental Health and Geoinformatic Sciences Purpose - A Loma Linda University team from the department of Environmental Health held a participatory priority-ranking workshop with several Community groups from the Coachella Valley (Table 1). The purpose of this workshop was to prioritize environmental justice issues that relate to air quality in the Coachella valley. An output of the workshop was to develop a list of air quality EJ priority issues and then rank those priorities. This method is published in anthropological literature as the Participatory Analysis for Community Action (PACA) technique. The method is also known as “free lists” and “pile sorting”. Methods - The December 29 th morning workshop took approximately four hours to complete and come to a cons