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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"environmental inequality"”.
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Planting trees, planting hope: an analysis of the role of urban forestry in addressing environmental inequality in Cape Town
… spaces has been identified as providing numerous environmental, psychosocial, and economic benefits. However, rather than being an equally distributed resource which all city residents share, tree cover in Cape Town, South Africa tends to be a marker of environmental inequality and racism, with …
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Public Housing on Risky Ground: A National Study of Flood Risk and Two Case Studies Investigating the Legacy of Environmental Inequality
… reveal how historical siting decisions formed environmental inequality in public housing and how decision-making around mitigation is a complex process. Disasters can act as focusing events, generating the political will to implement known mitigation solutions or achieve preexisting …
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Distance and disparity: social disadvantage and the distribution of hazardous waste in America
… AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Since the original studies of environmental discrimination were completed in the early 1980s, many scholars have measured disproportionate proximity to hazardous waste by poor and minority communities. The majority of this research has found evidence to support claims of …
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The Community of Member-Based Nature Parks: An Integration of Spatial, Socio-Demographic, and Interview Data
… research, nature center users, and a new form of environmental inequality as it relates to benefits. Findings also present how members socially construct nature, and how those social constructions relate to their tangible relationship with the environment as nature center participants. Additional …
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Enabling the Just Energy Transition in South Africa
… it may do little to mitigate socio-economic and environmental inequality, necessitating new approaches to energy scholarship and policy planning. To date, the traditional principle of distributive justice (i.e. ensuring equitable access to energy) has been at the forefront of South Africa's …
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Zoonotic disease dynamics in displacement: A multisite case study in Sindh, Pakistan and Mafraq, Jordan
… 2010 superfloods in Sindh province in Pakistan; environmentally displaced populations during monsoons and following sea intrusion in Sindh; and Syrian refugees in Mafraq Governorate in Jordan. I adopted qualitative methods, including literature reviews, semi-structured expert key informant and …
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Surface Ozone and Population Health
… contributes to the deep-learning-driven environmental studies methodologically by providing a brand-new feasible way to realise data fusion and downscaling, which maintains high in-terpretability by conforming to the principles of spatial statistics without compromising the prediction …
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Examining the neighborhood effect averaging problem (NEAP) in people’s exposure to mobility-dependent environmental factors: A spatiotemporal modeling approach
… of individual exposure to mobility-dependent environmental factors, such as air/noise pollution, traffic congestion, green/blue spaces, healthy food environments, ethnic exposures, and deprived/disadvantaged neighborhoods. Systematic investigations of the NEAP have been urgently needed to …