ABSTRACT
The redistribution of power is a primary goal of most community organizations, as people from disenfranchised groups come together to influence the policies, practices, or attitudes that affect their lives. Through models of social and community development, groups with less power are able to achieve sustainable improvements to the challenges they are facing, ultimately leading to social change (Link & Ramanathan, 2011). Within the field of environmental justice, community groups generally seek procedural or distributive changes, thereby gaining influence over decision-making processes (procedural) or access to material resources such as good jobs and clean air, water, and land (distributive).
