  Stormwater has immense impacts on urban flooding and water quality, leaving
the marginalized and the impoverished disproportionately impacted by and
vulnerable to stormwater hazards. However, the environmental health concerns of
socially and economically marginalized individuals are largely underestimated.
Through regression analysis of data from three longitudinal surveys, this
article examines how shared experiences of adverse environmental conditions,
based on individuals' race, gender, and education level, shape one's concern
about and willingness to participate in stormwater management. We found that
people of color, women, and less-educated respondents had a greater willingness
to participate in stormwater management than White, male, and more-educated
respondents, and their concern about local stormwater hazards drove their
willingness to participate. This analysis calls attention to how adverse
environmental conditions may shape the perspectives of those experiencing them
and facilitate a greater willingness to participate.
