Early Childcare and Education in a Post-Industrial Landscape: Inequalities in Proximity to Active and Relic Manufacturing in Metropolitan Providence, Rhode Island.

Autor:	Tollefson J; Jonathan Tollefson, PhD student at the Department of Sociology and the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA., Frickel S; Dr. Scott Frickel, Professor at the Department of Sociology and the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA., Gonsalves S; Summer Gonsalves at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA., Marlow T; Dr. Thomas Marlow, postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Interacting Urban Networks, NYU Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates., Sucsy R; Robert Sucsy, Public Health Epidemiologist at the Rhode Island Department of Health, Providence, Rhode Island, USA., Byrns M; Dr. Michael Byrns, Principal Environmental Health Risk Assessment Toxicologist at the Rhode Island Department of Health, Providence, Rhode Island, USA., Orpen-Tuz M; Melissa Orpen-Tuz, Assistant Health Program Administrator at the Rhode Island Department of Health, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Environmental justice (Print) [Environ Justice] 2023 Aug 01; Vol. 16 (4), pp. 309-320. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Aug 01.
DOI:	10.1089/env.2021.0121
Abstrakt:	Children are uniquely vulnerable to environmental health risks associated with industrial contamination, and early childcare and education (ECE) facilities are important sites for potential exposure to environmental contaminants. Emerging research on historic urban industry has additionally demonstrated that urban environmental risk accumulates historically and spatially across urban landscapes. Accordingly, this study pairs cross-sectional data on licensed childcare facilities with longitudinal manufacturing site data in Providence, Rhode Island. We use these data to investigate the proximity of ECE facilities to active and relic manufacturing sites, controlling for a range of organizational- and tract-level characteristics. Results show that type of childcare facility (center-based vs. in-home) and language of instruction (Spanish vs. English) are important predictors of children's proximity to industrial lands, past and present. These findings indicate that Spanish-speaking children in Providence may experience a "double jeopardy" in the form of disproportionate legacy environmental hazards at ECE as well as at home-suggesting that the historical nature of urban industrial land use is an important mechanism of environmental inequality for young children. Competing Interests: No competing financial interests exist. (Copyright 2023, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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