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Environmental Justice and Nuclear Accidents: The Case of Chernobyl Disaster
International Journal of Environment and Geoinformatics, 2021 Nuclear energy is one of the most important components of the world electricity supply in today's world. It provides approximately 21% of electricity in OECD countries. However, there has been a growing social and academic debate over the use of nuclear
Emrah AKYÜZ
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Policing Environmental Injustice [PDF]
, 2021 Environmental justice (EJ) activists have long worked with abolitionists in their communities, critiquing the ways policing, prisons, and pollution are entangled and racially constituted (Braz and Gilmore 2006). Yet, much EJ scholarship reflects a liberal Western focus on a more equal distribution of harms, rather than challenging the underlying ...
Andrea Brock, Nathan Stephens-Griffin
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Environmental Justice and the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Urban Air Pollution Monitoring
Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 2022 The main aims of urban air pollution monitoring are to optimize the interaction between humanity and nature, to combine and integrate environmental databases, and to develop sustainable approaches to the production and the organization of the urban ...
Tatyana G. Krupnova +3 more
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E-REA, 2021 The Great 1927 Flood ranks as the worst environmental disaster in American history. In the early 20th century, Mississippi floods had been worsening as the levee system progressed, in a period when the development of industrial plantations required the ...
Stéphanie DENÈVE
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Sustainable Environment, 2023 Environmental problems have become so profound that they require a concerted effort to fix them, but many manufacturing companies have failed to go green.
Kwame Benyibaling Bour +2 more
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Inequality in the Distribution of Air Pollution Attributable Mortality Within Canadian Cities
GeoHealth, 2023 Recent studies have identified inequality in the distribution of air pollution attributable health impacts, but to our knowledge this has not been examined in Canadian cities.
David M. Stieb +9 more
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Diversity, 2023 Brazilian cities feature quite unequal neighborhoods. Middle-class neighborhoods have better infrastructure than those inhabited by low-income families.
Gedeone Ferreira Lima +5 more
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Environmental injustice and mobility impairment
Global Social Work, 2013 The study of mobility is a growth area in the social sciences. The car system (automobility) has hadas one of its consequences reduced opportunities for mobility impaired people to walk in their localenvironment.
Michael Cahill
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Air Pollution and Urban Green Space: Evidence of Environmental Injustice in Adama, Ethiopia
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2021 While air pollution data in Ethiopia is limited, existing studies indicate high levels of both ambient and household air pollution; rapid urbanization also threatens the preservation of urban green spaces.
Erin Flanagan +10 more
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National patterns in environmental injustice and inequality: outdoor NO2 air pollution in the United States. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 We describe spatial patterns in environmental injustice and inequality for residential outdoor nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations in the contiguous United States.
Lara P Clark +2 more
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