‘Citizen Science, Pollution and Environmental Justice’: the 2017 Toxic Expertise annual workshop Dr Thom Davies, Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick
This month Toxic Expertise held our second annual workshop at the University of Warwick. The two-day event involved over thirty scholars and members of the public who shared their experiences of environmental justice, pollution and citizen science from a variety of perspectives. Participants shwcased recent research from 12 different countries in the Global North and South.
Carmit Lubanov (Associaion of Environmental Justice in Israel) discussed her detailed research into environmental injustice in Israel, where she has focussed on inequality in sewage, water, public transportation, air pollution and open spaces. As with countless other examples of environmental injustice, economically vulnerable communities in Isreal – predominantly Arab towns and villages – are most subject to environmental risk.
