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The Air is Always Cleaner on the Other Side: Race, Space, and Ambient Air Toxics Exposures in California
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In this article, the authors used U.S. EPA's National Air Toxi Index (NAATI) to study cumulative exposure in minority neighborhoods due to multiple sources of pollution.Abstract:
Environmental justice advocates have recently focused attention on cumulative exposure in minority neighborhoods due to multiple sources of pollution. This article uses U.S. EPA’s National Air Toxi...read more
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Parks and people: an environmental justice inquiry in Baltimore, Maryland.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the distribution of parks in Baltimore, Maryland, as an environmental justice issue and employ a novel park service area approach that uses Thiessen polygons and dasymetric reapportioning of census data to measure potential park congestion as an equity outcome measure.
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Street Trees and Equity: Evaluating the Spatial Distribution of an Urban Amenity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the environmental equity implications of street trees and determined if the spatial distribution of public right-of-way trees is equitable with respect to race and ethnicity, income, and housing tenure in the city of Tampa, Florida, USA.
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City structure, obesity, and environmental justice: an integrated analysis of physical and social barriers to walkable streets and park access.
TL;DR: It is found that subpopulations generally considered vulnerable to obesity are more likely to live in walkable neighborhoods and have better walking access to neighborhood parks than other groups in Phoenix, and the results suggest that benefits of built environments may be offset by social characteristics.
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Making the environmental justice grade: the relative burden of air pollution exposure in the United States
TL;DR: It is found that within areas covered by the monitoring networks, non-Hispanic blacks are consistently overrepresented in communities with the poorest air quality, and among areas where monitoring data are available, low income and minority communities tend to experience higher ambient pollution levels.
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Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Residential Proximity to Polluting Industrial Facilities: Evidence From the Americans' Changing Lives Study
TL;DR: The authors' results add to the historical record demonstrating significant disparities in exposures to environmental hazards in the US population and provide a paradigm for studying changes over time in links to health.
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Us socioeconomic and racial differences in health: patterns and explanations
TL;DR: The evidence for both a widening SES differential in health status and an increasing racial gap in health between blacks and whites due, in part, to the worsening health status of the African American population is described.
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Relationship Between Urban Sprawl and Physical Activity, Obesity, and Morbidity
TL;DR: This ecologic study reveals that urban form could be significantly associated with some forms of physical activity and some health outcomes.
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Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California
TL;DR: The authors argue that although racism is rarely explicitly discussed, a normative conceptualization of racism informs the research and that this prevailing conception overly narrow and restrictive, it also denies the spatiality of racism.
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Which Came First? Toxic Facilities, Minority Move-In, and Environmental Justice
TL;DR: This article examined the disproportionate siting and minority move-in hypotheses in Los Angeles County by reconciling tract geography and data over three decades with firm-level information on the initial siting dates for toxic storage and disposal facilities.
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Sorting out the connections between the built environment and health: A conceptual framework for navigating pathways and planning healthy cities
TL;DR: To plan for healthy cities, it is argued that to reinvigorate the historic link between urban planning and public health, and thereby conduct informed science to better guide effective public policy.
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