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Industrial pollution and social deprivation: evidence and complexity in evaluating and responding to environmental inequality. [PDF]
, 2005 The local impacts of industrial pollution can take many forms andâ whilst uncertain in their scale, severity and distributionâ are widely recognised. The question of who in society potentially experiences these impacts through living near to emission ...
Smith, Graham +3 more
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La reconnaissance d’un capital environnemental autochtone ?
VertigO, 2018 This article contributes to the discussion about environmental capital through the lens of “local” user position in protected areas. More precisely, it focuses on French national parks, emblematic of the conception of nature conservation in France ...
Bruno Bouet +2 more
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Access to urban green spaces and environmental inequality in post-socialist cities
Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 2020 Access to urban green spaces and environmental inequalities are increasingly on the agenda in contemporary cities due to increasing density of people, widening social inequalities, and limited access to Urban Green Spaces (UGS).
György Csomós +2 more
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Residential and Race/Ethnicity Disparities in Heat Vulnerability in the United States
GeoHealth, 2022 Adverse health outcomes caused by extreme heat represent the most direct human health threat associated with the warming of the Earth's climate. Socioeconomic, demographic, health, land cover, and temperature determinants contribute to heat vulnerability;
Mitchell Manware +4 more
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Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2017 In France, like in other parts of the world, environmental-protection policies appear to have taken note of local resistance driven by the eviction of populations and restrictions on their use of certain areas. The amendment to the law on French national
Valérie Deldrève, Cécilia Claeys
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2018 This study advanced a rigorous spatial analysis of surface water-related environmental health vulnerabilities in the California Bay-Delta region, USA, from 2000 to 2006.
Raoul S. Liévanos
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Quels cadres d’action collective contre les boues et poussières rouges d'Altéo-Gardanne?
VertigO, 2019 The red muds and dusts released by the production of specialty alumina from Altéo-Gardanne (southeast France) has been the subject of numerous mobilizations since 2014. They follow the positive and conditional advice given by the young Calanques National
Valérie Deldrève , Juliette Metin
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The Long-term Socioeconomic Consequences of the Tisza Flood of 2001 in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, Hungary. [PDF]
Belvedere Meridionale, 2014 The extreme weather conditions caused by the climate change have strong impact on the everyday life of people. This study aims to analyse the changes in the life quality of those who live in the villages and towns affected by the 2001 floods in north ...
BOROS, Lajos, NAGY, Gyula
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Shades of Green: A Visual Approach to Assessing Environmental Inequality in Cleveland, Ohio
Urban ScienceThis study explores environmental inequality through a novel quantitative approach, analyzing urban vegetation in two contrasting neighborhoods in Cleveland, Ohio—East Cleveland and Shaker Heights.
Taraneh Meshkani
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Tecnologias sociais e sistemas locais de poluição
Horizontes Antropológicos, 2006 O texto apresenta resultados de uma pesquisa sobre as práticas empresariais de alocação de lixo tóxico no Estado Rio de Janeiro. Foram levantadas, no período 1992/2002, 121 denúncias de alocação indevida de lixo tóxico e perigoso junto à Feema - órgão ...
Henri Acselrad
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