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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, Marc Smith‐Doiron, Matthew Quick, Tanya Christidis, Guoliang Xi, Rosalin M. Miles, Aaron vanDonkelaar, Randall V. Martin, Perry Hystad, Michael Tjepkema   +9 more
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“If the river comes to an end, the community comes to an end”: pedagogical dimension of environmental racism

Praxis & Saber, 2021
This article aims to analyze the educational practices that emerge from conflict situations in which ancestry and the right to the quilombola territory are appreciated.
André Carneiro Melo, Marco Antonio Leandro Barzano   +1 more
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Scientific data, ecological conversion and transformative affect

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
Scientific data supporting rational arguments for human-made causes of climate and environmental changes might be persuasive in some contexts. Law, policy, activism and The Earth Charter similarly appear insufficient to change attitudes and behaviours ...
Nancy Howell
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Community-driven research and capacity building to address environmental justice concerns with industrial air pollution in Curtis Bay, South Baltimore

Frontiers in Epidemiology, 2023
IntroductionCurtis Bay (CB) is an environmental justice (EJ) community in South Baltimore. With a high concentration of industrial polluters and compounding non-chemical stressors, CB has experienced socioeconomic, quality of life, and health burdens for
Matthew A. Aubourg, Greg Sawtell, Greg Sawtell, Lauren Deanes, Nicole Fabricant, Meleny Thomas, Meleny Thomas, Kristoffer Spicer, Caila Wagar, Shashawnda Campbell, Shashawnda Campbell, Abigail Ulman, Christopher D. Heaney, Christopher D. Heaney, Christopher D. Heaney   +14 more
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COVID-19, Housing, and Environmental Injustice

Hygiene, 2023
In the United States, there has been a long history of environmental injustice that disproportionately affects racial and ethnic minorities and low-income communities due to racially targeted policies and widespread discrimination.
Anuli Njoku, Marcelin Joseph
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Racism, traditional food access, and industrial development across Ontario: Perspectives from the fields of environmental law and environmental studies

Canadian Food Studies, 2023
Racism and industrial development across lands and waters in the province of Ontario have played a significant role in decreased access to traditional food for Indigenous peoples.
Kristen Lowitt, Jane Cooper, Kerrie Blaise   +2 more
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“La justicia ambiental es para ti y para mí”: Translating Collective Struggles for Environmental and Energy Justice in Puerto Rico’s Jobos Bay Communities

Frontiers in Communication, 2021
Rural, coastal communities in the Jobos Bay region of southeastern Puerto Rico confront disproportionate harms as an energy sacrifice zone. This space is constituted by imported fossil fuel dependency, economic and climate injustices, environmental ...
Catalina M. de Onís
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Study the forest, not only the trees: Environmental exposures, not genomes, generate most health disparities

Frontiers in Genetics, 2022
As sequencing and analysis techniques provide increasingly detailed data at a plummeting cost, it is increasingly popular to seek the answers to medical and public health challenges in the DNA sequences of affected populations.
Taylor V. Thompson, Katherine C. Crocker
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Exploring and contextualizing public opposition to renewable electricity in the United States [PDF]

, 2009
This article explores public opposition to renewable power technologies in the United States. It begins by discussing the genesis of environmental ethics, or how some Americans have come to place importance on the protection of the environment and ...
Allen, Anders, Awerbuch, Barbour, Barclay, Bauen, Benjamin Sovacool, Berinstein, Bishnu, Boone, Carson, Coburn, Devine-Wright, Devine-Wright, Diesendorf, Duffield, Elton, Fielding, Flavin, Gagnon, Green, Kagel, Kahn, Kaplan, Karmis, Keating, Lee, Leopold, Mahapatra, Mohai, Nash, Norland, Ottaviano, Pasqualetti, Pasqualetti, Pater, Podlas, Roth, Sovacool, Sovacool, Sundqvist, Swartz, Thoreau, Upham, Upham   +44 more
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Environmental racism and ecological crisis in Achebe’s Things fall apart (1958), and Gordimer’s My son’s story (1990)

Cogent Social Sciences
This research explores environmental racism in the forms of Nigerian ‘colonialism’ and South African ‘apartheid’ policies. It is designed a comparative framework to Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958), and Nadine Gordimer’s My Son’s Story (1990 ...
Morve Roshan K.
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