Science & Environmental Health Network with loads of information on the precautionary principle, science and law, and public interest research.
"Love Canal University", a huge collection of original health studies from Love Canal, along with journal articles, government hearings, and correspondence about the health studies.
Health Community Against the War- This site is dated, but the issue is not.
Southeast Community Research Center- Atlanta. A resource for communities and researchers in the South who are doing, or would like to conduct, participatory research projects.
Our Kids' Health Survey, Starring Granny! -this great comic book and the health survey were coordinated by the Lower Price Hill Environmental Leadership Group in Cincinnati, Ohio. For more Information, contact the Lower Price Hill Environmental Leadership Group, Urban Appalachian Council. 513-251-0202 or mhenson@one.net
Center for Health, Environment and Justice. Especially recommended under publications, "Community Health Surveys."
Clary Meuser Research Network offers links to helpful community mapping sites, free GIS and Mapping Tutorials, a Right-To-Know Atlas, 2000 Toxic Release Inventory Maps, and Federal Land Maps.
Environmental Bureau of Investigation Citizens Guide to Environmental Investigation and Prosecution.
JSI Center for Environmental Health published "How to Investigate Environmental Health Problems in Your Community." You can find more information at this site, although the publication itself is more elusive.
Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly-- sort of weekly newsletter focused on enviromental health issues. Available on-line and in hardcopy.
In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development, and other publications available through Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Salem Power Plant HealthLink..a great example of community organizing to oppose a public health threat. (Warning: you might not be able to get back once you leave for this site.)
Toxics Action Center.. helping neighborhood groups across New England fight toxic pollution in their communities.
Research Ethics and Environmental Health provides six downloadable bibliographies on research ethics.
Action Research Resources based out of Southern Cross University.
Bonner Foundation includes on-line Frequently Asked Questions about community-based research by campus administrators, community members, students, and faculty. Also includes a list of 19 campus-based community research centers.
Center for Indigenous Knowledge for Agriculture and Rural Development, Worldwide - Iowa State University. Read about their Indigenous Knowledge Resource Centers (last updated 1994)
COMM-ORG, The On-Line Conference On Community Organizing and Development, edited and moderated by Randy Stoecker. This site includes syllabi, discussion forum, papers, and resources for action research.
Community Toolbox-- all kinds of community building tools and resources!
Read about the network of Dutch Science Shops; offices set up in or out of universities where community interests request and propose research.
Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism. (Link directly to the Indigenous Research Protection Act)
Institute for Energy & Environmental Research dedicated to increasing public involvement in and control over environmental problems through the democratization of science.
Institute of Action Research for Community Health collaborating with communities, universities and the World Health Organization for healthy communities.
Neighborhood Planning for Community Revitalization providing applied research assistance to community-based organizations in Minnesota.
New Directions Community-Based Research Institute is a non-profit participatory planning organization on Long Island, NY.
Policy Research Action Group (PRAG) a Chicago-based collaborative research network of academics and community-based organizations. Publisher of PRAGmatics, the journal of community based research.
PRATT Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development (PICCED)
Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide a community-based membership institute that develops and conducts popular political and economic education and action research for organizing and liberation.
Swearer (Howard R.,) Center for Public Service located at Brown University.
Tellus Institute, a non-profit organization of scientists and planners working on environmental issues and energy planning since 1976.
Urban Options helping ordinary people in East Lansing, Michigan, find local solutions to the global challenges of the environment and sustainable living.
Madeleine L. Kangsen Scammell
Boston University School of Public Health
Department of Environmental Health
715 Albany St. Talbot 2E
Boston, MA 02118
Tel. 617-638-4454
Fax. 617-638-4857
e-mail: mls@bu.edu