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Promoting Environmental Justice

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2011
The authors reflect on environmental justice in the U.S. They suggest that to promote environmental justice in the U.S. a commitment to environmental justice needs to be made which surpasses that of the federal government. They argue that efforts are increasing in the U.S.
J Nadine, Gracia, Howard K, Koh
openaire   +3 more sources

Environmental Justice and Social Work: A Call to Expand the Social Work Profession to Include Environmental Justice

open access: yesColumbia Social Work Review, 2013
Concern for environmental justice has increased in recent decades. Although the environmental justice field is closely linked to social justice, the social work profession has yet to gain a substantive involvement in environmental justice efforts.
Dominoe Jarvis
doaj   +1 more source

Barriers and facilitators to implementing an urban co-responding police-mental health team

open access: yesHealth & Justice, 2018
Background In an effort to reduce the increasing number of persons with mental illness (PMI) experiencing incarceration, co-responding police-mental health teams are being utilized as a way to divert PMI from the criminal justice system.
Katie Bailey   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Everyday Environmental Justice in Payments for Ecosystem Services: Insights From Two Protected Areas in China

open access: yesConservation & Society, 2023
Currently, social justice for the management of ecosystem services is promoted widely in international communities. Efforts have increased to develop indicators for justice assessment, but these are relatively static forms of results-oriented analysis ...
Jun He
doaj   +1 more source

Community perceptions of socio-economic, environmental, and governance dimensions of manganese mining in Serenje District, Zambia

open access: yesDialogues in Health
Manganese has become increasingly important in the global energy transition, yet its extraction raises significant socio-economic, environmental, and governance concerns in mining-affected communities.
Maggie Mwape   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental Justice and Pennsylvania's Environmental Rights Amendment

open access: yesColumbia Journal of Race and Law, 2021
Since the 1970s, there has been a growing awareness that environmental hazards are disproportionately sited in low-income communities and communities of color.
Jacob Elkin
doaj  

ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR THE PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS IN UKRAINE

open access: yesAccess to Justice in Eastern Europe, 2021
The article deals with specific issues of access to justice relating to the protection of environmental rights. The harmonization and approximation of national legislation with international standards is an essential factor in the development of ...
Getman Anatoliy
doaj   +1 more source

Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
wiley   +1 more source

Shifting perceptions of green and blue spaces during the COVID‐19 pandemic in gentrifying neighbourhoods: Experiences of inclusion and exclusion by women and non‐binary residents

open access: yesPeople and Nature
The COVID‐19 outbreak triggered a combined health, social and economic crisis, imposing multiple restrictions that altered the use and perception of public green and blue spaces (PGBS).
Amalia Calderón‐Argelich   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diversity and complexity in neural organoids

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Neural organoid research aims to expand genetic diversity on one side and increase tissue complexity on the other. Chimeroids integrate multiple donor genomes within single organoids. Self‐organising multi‐identity organoids, exogenous cell seeding, or enforced assembly of region‐specific organoids contribute to tissue complexity.
Ilaria Chiaradia, Madeline A. Lancaster
wiley   +1 more source

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