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  • Community based participatory researchers in North Carolina imposed limits on the hog industry (which caused water pollution from hog waste runoff, threatened small farmers water supply, and caused noxious odors).

    Farquhar SA, Wing S. (2003) Methodological and ethical considerations in community-driven environmental justice research: Two case studies from rural North Carolina. In Community-Based Participatory Research for Health, Minkler M & Wallerstein N (Eds.). Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, CA.

  • Community activists have succeeded in increasing the number of practitioners available to provide abortion services, have protected women entering abortion clinics from harassment, and have fought to protect abortion rights (thus continuing safe, legal abortion services).

    Joffe C, Yanow S. (2005). Advanced practice clinicians as abortion providers: Current developments in the United States. Reproductive Health Matters 12(24 Suppl):198-206.

  • Community activists in Oakland succeeded in persuading the city to charge liquor store outlets an annual fee of $600 that would go toward the increased amount of policing that liquor store densities invariably require (see Retail section).

    BMSG. 1997. Oakland Shows the Way: The coalition on alcohol outlet issues and media advocacy as a tool for policy change. Berkeley Media Studies Group. Available at: HYPERLINK "http://www.bmsg.org/pdfs/Issue3.pdf" http://www.bmsg.org/pdfs/Issue3.pdf.

  • Environmental Protection Agency is more likely to choose more health-protective clean-up approaches when Community Advisory Groups have formed at Superfund sites to mobilize and engage citizens in the decision-making process.

    Daley DM. 2007. Citizen groups and scientific decisionmaking: Does public participation influence environmental outcomes? Journal Of Policy Analysis And Management 262: 349-368

  • Environmental Protection Agency is more likely to choose more health-protective clean-up approaches when Community Advisory Groups have formed at Superfund sites to mobilize and engage citizens in the decision-making process.

    Daley DM. 2007. Citizen groups and scientific decisionmaking: Does public participation influence environmental outcomes? Journal Of Policy Analysis And Management 262: 349-368