Publication
Measuring Environmental Justice in Real Time: A Pilot Study Using Digital Participatory Method in the Global South, Nepal
Publisher:
MDPI AG
Date:
14-04-2022
DOI:
10.3390/IJERPH19084752
Abstract: In iduals’ perceived fairness or justice beliefs are related to health in numerous ways. However, environment justice research to date has given little attention to perceived fairness of environmental exposures as experienced by in iduals. This study explored the feasibility of a bottom-up digital participatory (via mobile phones) approach using ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to capture in iduals’ subjective experience of environmental exposures and the subjective evaluation of fairness by those affected in the context of Nepal. In total, 22 in iduals participated in the study for 28 days. The results show high rates of study retention and adherence. In iduals’ justice perception was found to vary within and between in iduals, but also substantially depending on the types of environmental exposures. Nevertheless, the study indicates that uncertainties are inevitable as study design and timing may conflict participants’ daily lives and priorities. The method allows us to consider multiple geographic contexts of in iduals’ everyday lives beyond residential environment. This pilot study proved the possibility to assess perceptions of environmental justice issues and demonstrated the necessary steps to using digital participatory method for assessing subjective perception of fairness of in iduals.