IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v12y2014i1p300-321d43988.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Health Impact Assessment of Urban Waterway Decisions

Author

Listed:
  • Katrina Smith Korfmacher

    (Department of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box EHSC, Rochester, NY 14642, USA)

  • Katia Aviles

    (Corporación del Proyecto ENLACE del Caño Martín Peña, P.O. Box 41308, San Juan, 00940-1308, Puerto Rico
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • B.J. Cummings

    (Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition/TAG, 210 South Hudson St, Suite 332, Seattle, WA 98134, USA
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • William Daniell

    (Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences University of Washington School of Public Health, Box 357234, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Jared Erdmann

    (Minneapolis Health Department, 250 South 4th Street, Rm. 510, Minneapolis, MN 55415, USA
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Valerie Garrison

    (University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box EHSC, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

Abstract

Health impact assessments (HIA) promote the consideration of health in a wide range of public decisions. Although each HIA is different, common pathways, evidence bases, and strategies for community engagement tend to emerge in certain sectors, such as urban redevelopment, natural resource extraction, or transportation planning. To date, a limited number of HIAs have been conducted on decisions affecting water resources and waterfronts. This review presents four recent HIAs of water-related decisions in the United States and Puerto Rico. Although the four cases are topically and geographically diverse, several common themes emerged from the consideration of health in water-related decisions. Water resource decisions are characterized by multiple competing uses, inter-institutional and inter-jurisdictional complexity, scientific uncertainty, long time scales for environmental change, diverse cultural and historical human values, and tradeoffs between private use and public access. These four case studies reveal challenges and opportunities of examining waterfront decisions through a “health lens”. This review analyzes these cases, common themes, and lessons learned for the future practice of HIA in the waterfront zone and beyond.

Suggested Citation

  • Katrina Smith Korfmacher & Katia Aviles & B.J. Cummings & William Daniell & Jared Erdmann & Valerie Garrison, 2014. "Health Impact Assessment of Urban Waterway Decisions," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-22, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:12:y:2014:i:1:p:300-321:d:43988
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/12/1/300/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/12/1/300/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Gaffield, S.J. & Goo, R.L. & Richards, L.A. & Jackson, R.J., 2003. "Public Health Effects of Inadequately Managed Stormwater Runoff," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 93(9), pages 1527-1533.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Niamh Smith & Ronan Foley & Michail Georgiou & Zoë Tieges & Sebastien Chastin, 2022. "Urban Blue Spaces as Therapeutic Landscapes: “A Slice of Nature in the City”," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(22), pages 1-20, November.
    2. Judith Schröder & Susanne Moebus & Julita Skodra, 2022. "Selected Research Issues of Urban Public Health," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(9), pages 1-28, May.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Mark Delucchi & Don McCubbin, 2011. "External Costs of Transport in the United States," Chapters, in: André de Palma & Robin Lindsey & Emile Quinet & Roger Vickerman (ed.), A Handbook of Transport Economics, chapter 15, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    2. V. M. Jayasooriya & A. W. M. Ng & S. Muthukumaran & B. J. C. Perera, 2016. "Optimal Sizing of Green Infrastructure Treatment Trains for Stormwater Management," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 30(14), pages 5407-5420, November.
    3. Delucchi, Mark A. & McCubbin, Donald R., 2010. "External Costs of Transport in the U.S," Institute of Transportation Studies, Working Paper Series qt13n8v8gq, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis.
    4. Hu, Han-fen & Krishen, Anjala S. & Barnes, Jesse, 2023. "Through narratives we learn: Exploring knowledge-building as a marketing strategy for prosocial water reuse," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 158(C).
    5. Brian Stone & Jessica L Bullen, 2006. "Urban Form and Watershed Management: How Zoning Influences Residential Stormwater Volumes," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 33(1), pages 21-37, February.
    6. Nicole H. O’Donnell & Jeanine P. D. Guidry, 2022. "Beyond Personal Responsibility: Analyzing How Attributing Responsibility for Environmental Protection Can Hinder Action," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(20), pages 1-15, October.
    7. Penn, Jerrod & Hu, Wuyang & Cox, Linda J. & Kozloff, Lara, 2012. "Beach Quality and Recreational Values: A Pictorialized Stated Preference Analysis of Residents and Tourists," 2012 Annual Meeting, February 4-7, 2012, Birmingham, Alabama 119813, Southern Agricultural Economics Association.
    8. Paul F. Boulos, 2017. "Smart Water Network Modeling for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 31(10), pages 3177-3188, August.
    9. Jyotsna S. Jagai & Jeffrey K. Griffiths & Paul K. Kirshen & Patrick Webb & Elena N. Naumova, 2012. "Seasonal Patterns of Gastrointestinal Illness and Streamflow along the Ohio River," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 9(5), pages 1-20, May.
    10. Hyytiäinen, Kari & Lehtiniemi, Maiju & Niemi, Jarkko K. & Tikka, Kimmo, 2013. "An optimization framework for addressing aquatic invasive species," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 91(C), pages 69-79.
    11. Aaron P. Jenkins & Stacy D. Jupiter & Adam Jenney & Varanisese Rosa & Alanieta Naucukidi & Namrata Prasad & Gandercillar Vosaki & Kim Mulholland & Richard Strugnell & Mike Kama & John A. Crump & Pierr, 2019. "Environmental Foundations of Typhoid Fever in the Fijian Residential Setting," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(13), pages 1-20, July.
    12. Lawrence D. Frank & Peter Engelke, 2005. "Multiple Impacts of the Built Environment on Public Health: Walkable Places and the Exposure to Air Pollution," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 28(2), pages 193-216, April.
    13. Viniece Jennings & Cassandra Johnson Gaither, 2015. "Approaching Environmental Health Disparities and Green Spaces: An Ecosystem Services Perspective," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 12(2), pages 1-17, February.
    14. Marcos García-López & Borja Montano & Joaquín Melgarejo, 2020. "Water Pricing Policy as Tool to Induce Efficiency in Water Resources Management," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(10), pages 1-19, May.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:12:y:2014:i:1:p:300-321:d:43988. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.