O'rourke, Dara, and Gregg P. Macey. "Community environmental policing: Assessing new strategies of public participation in environmental regulation." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 22, no. 3 (2003): 383-414.
Where do the authors work, and what are their areas of expertise? Note any other publications by the authors with relevance to the 6Cities project.
Dara O'Rourke is a professor at UC Berkeley. He has research interests in environmental justice, and he has a BS in Mechanical Engineering
Gregg P. Macey
Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
What are the main findings or arguments presented in the article or report?
Describe at least three ways that the argument is supported.
What three (or more) quotes capture the message of the article or report?
"bucket brigades have promoted community awareness and empowerment, pro-
vided new sources of information on air emissions, pointed out gaps in existing monitoring and enforcement systems, and helped to increase regulatory and indus- try accountability"
What were the methods, tools and/or data used to produce the claims or arguments made in the article or report?
How (if at all) are health disparities or other equity issues addressed in the article or report?
Where has this article or report been referenced or discussed? (In some journals, you can see this in a sidebar.)
Can you learn anything from the article or report’s bibliography that tells us something about how the article or report was produced?
What three points, details or references from the text did you follow up on to advance your understanding of how air pollution science has been produced and used in governance and education in different settings?
O'rourke, Dara, and Gregg P. Macey. "Community environmental policing: Assessing new strategies of public participation in environmental regulation." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 22, no. 3 (2003): 383-414.
This paper evaluates a new form of public participation in environmental moni-
toring and regulation advanced through local “bucket brigades,” which allow
community members to sample air emissions near industrial facilities. These
brigades represent a new form of community environmental policing, in which res-
idents participate in collecting, analyzing, and deploying environmental informa-
tion, and more importantly, in an array of public policy dialogues. Use of this
sampling technology has had marked effects on local residents’ perceptions and
participation in emergency response and citizens’ right-to-know. However, when
viewed through the lens of the more developed literature on community policing, the
bucket brigades are currently limited in their ability to encourage “co-production” of
environmental protection between citizens and the state. Means are examined to
strengthen the bucket brigades and to more broadly support community participa-
tion in environmental regulation. © 2003 by the Association for Public Policy
Analysis and Management.
- Where do the authors work, and what are their areas of expertise? Note any other publications by the authors with relevance to the 6Cities project.
- Dara O'Rourke is a professor at UC Berkeley. He has research interests in environmental justice, and he has a BS in Mechanical Engineering
Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyGregg P. Macey
- What are the main findings or arguments presented in the article or report?
- Describe at least three ways that the argument is supported.
- What three (or more) quotes capture the message of the article or report?
- "bucket brigades have promoted community awareness and empowerment, pro-
vided new sources of information on air emissions, pointed out gaps in existingmonitoring and enforcement systems, and helped to increase regulatory and indus-
try accountability"