Digital Library

On 11th October 2023, 14 people, ranging from the fields of medicine, policy, law, abolition, science, data science, economics, and art gathered to declare our right to access AIR. 

From Centric Lab's research and collaborations with communities facing air pollution we have learned of the various poor health outcomes associated with exposure to gas work construction sites. 

This project brought together people with knowledges across a variety of policy, organising in healthcare and the criminal justice system, as well as environmental and climate justice. 

Dr Jake Robinson is a microbial ecologist with an interdisciplinary skillset. His research focuses on the nexus between biodiversity and human health, and on developing innovative strategies to conserve and restore ecosystems.

Data does not operate in a vacuum as every part of the process is coloured by top down factors such as culture. Which data is collected, how it is analysed and the insights drawn from data are all decision points practitioners have to make and all practitioners belong to a specific culture which influences them.

In this essay, we will be detailing the pathways of oppression, including the role that science, policy, and city organisers play. 

The mission of this report is to reframe the culture around data to ensure that we understand its limitations, reframe from supremacy to a tool for justice, and introduce a more accurate lexicon so we can better our collective understanding of data.

Data intentionally used for health justice considers the human, societal factors when creating ranges and values, such as how we frame the scoring of pollutants in the Stress Risk Score (SRS) based on research on the levels of pollutants that begin to affect chronic stress. We will walk through a loosely structured set of steps to understand how to take phenomena at a larger societal level and create meaningful environmental data for health justice.

This document will look at how industry gaslights communities, the mistakes science makes, and the significance of listening and acknowledging the lived experience. This report is for both practitioners and citizens who are experiencing environmental and health injustice.

The purpose of this data led study is to bring attention to everyday people those who have the right to pollute in their neighbourhoods, so that people can make more informed decisions when it comes to voting and priorities for our shared health and climate change action points.