No less than three cultural events have collided to make environmental health information critical yet highly inaccessible to many Americans. 1) The declining literacy levels of almost one half the population; 2) the growing cultural diversity of the population; 3) the specific complexity of environmental health information and the known science. This paper presents a case study of how literacy experts and environmental scientists partnered with a panel of inner city residents to produce a community guide to Brownfields. The goal of the guide was to be low barrier material that informs people about Brownfields issues so that they can meaningfully insert themselves into the processes of planning for Brownfields reuse and redevelopment, a process Zarcadoolas refers to as "cooperative composing."
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