Jason Corburn

Outlines a theory of "street science": wherein top-down science meets bottom-up community activism to better inform health and science evaluations/programs/projects, and then gives case studies of this approach taken from the Greenpoint/Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. The case studies cover environmental health issues and assessments surrounding urban fishermen, asthma, lead poisoning, and the location of waste transfer stations and incinerators. I enjoyed the author's advocating for show more a more participatory, locally-informed science as well as the lessons gleaned from the case studies. show less