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Using environmental justice to inform disaster recovery: Vulnerability and electricity restoration in Puerto Rico

open access: yes, 2021
This paper uses an environmental justice framework to explore whether existing vulnerabilities in Puerto Rico are associated with the rate of electricity restoration after Hurricane Maria.
Marisa Sotolongo   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Global politics of the COVID-19 pandemic, and other current issues of environmental justice

open access: yesThe Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
In 2020, the world was hit by COVID-19. Big data expeditiously travel around the world, having a performative effect on the way individuals, private enterprises, and local governments make decisions regarding the pandemic.
Cae Rodrigues, Gregory Lowan-Trudeau
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Distribution of environmental justice metrics for exposure to CAFOs in North Carolina, USA.

open access: yesEnvironmental Research, 2021
BACKGROUND Several studies have reported environmental disparities regarding exposure to concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). Public health implications of environmental justice from the intensive livestock industry are of great concern in ...
J. Son   +4 more
semanticscholar   +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

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

Environmental justice in the context of urban green space availability, accessibility, and attractiveness in postsocialist cities

open access: yes, 2020
This article aims to position postsocialist cities in Central and Eastern Europe in the broader debate on urban environmental justice. The article crosscuts through all three dimensions of justice (distributive/distributional, procedural/participatory ...
Jakub Kronenberg   +12 more
semanticscholar   +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  

Environmental justice: a criminological perspective

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2015
This article examines studies related to environmental justice in the criminological literature and from a criminological perspective. Criminologists have long been concerned with injustices in the criminal justice system related to the enforcement of ...
Michael J Lynch   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental justice and its geographical aspects in Hungary

open access: yesTér és Társadalom, 2021
In recent decades, environmental justice has become a defining concept in socio-spatial inequality research, political debates, and activism. Environmental justice research, which is essentially based on theories of social and spatial justice and ...
Nagy Gyula
doaj   +1 more source

Mechanisms of IgE‐mediated food allergy and the role of allergen‐specific B cells

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Food allergy arises when allergen‐specific B cells preferentially produce immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies against harmless foods. This article explains the mechanisms driving IgE‐mediated reactions, highlights the central role of these B cells, and discusses how natural tolerance (NT) and oral immunotherapy (OIT) can reshape allergic immune responses.
Juan‐Felipe López   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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