Waldman Linda, Bisht Ramila, Saharia Rajashree, Kapoor Abhinav, Rizvi Bushra, Hamid Yasir, Arora Meghana, Chopra Ima, Sawansi Kumud T, Priya Ritu, Marshall Fiona
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE, UK.
Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2017 Aug 30;14(9):980. doi: 10.3390/ijerph14090980.
This paper examines the intersection between environmental pollution and people's acknowledgements of, and responses to, health issues in Karhera, a former agricultural village situated between the rapidly expanding cities of New Delhi (India's capital) and Ghaziabad (an industrial district in Uttar Pradesh). A relational place-based view is integrated with an interpretive approach, highlighting the significance of place, people's emic experiences, and the creation of meaning through social interactions. Research included surveying 1788 households, in-depth interviews, participatory mapping exercises, and a review of media articles on environment, pollution, and health. Karhera experiences both domestic pollution, through the use of domestic waste water, or , for vegetable irrigation, and industrial pollution through factories' emissions into both the air and water. The paper shows that there is no uniform articulation of any environment/health threats associated with . Some people take preventative actions to avoid exposure while others do not acknowledge health implications. By contrast, industrial pollution is widely noted and frequently commented upon, but little collective action addresses this. The paper explores how the characteristics of Karhera, its heterogeneous population, diverse forms of environmental pollution, and broader governance processes, limit the potential for citizen action against pollution.
本文考察了环境污染与卡拉赫拉村居民对健康问题的认知及应对之间的交叉关系。卡拉赫拉村曾是一个农业村庄，位于迅速扩张的新德里（印度首都）和加济阿巴德（北方邦的一个工业区）之间。本文将基于地方的关系视角与解释性方法相结合，突出了地方的重要性、人们的本土经验以及通过社会互动创造意义的过程。研究包括对1788户家庭进行调查、开展深度访谈、进行参与式绘图活动以及回顾关于环境、污染和健康的媒体文章。卡拉赫拉村既存在家庭污染，即使用生活污水用于蔬菜灌溉，也存在工业污染，即工厂向空气和水中排放污染物。本文表明，对于与……相关的任何环境/健康威胁，并没有统一的表述。一些人采取预防措施以避免接触，而另一些人则不承认对健康有影响。相比之下，工业污染受到广泛关注且经常被提及，但针对此的集体行动却很少。本文探讨了卡拉赫拉村的特征、其人口的异质性、环境污染的多样形式以及更广泛的治理过程如何限制了公民对抗污染的行动潜力。
