Highlights•Some large US cities are including equity and justice criteria in adaptation
planning.•Criteria are commonly considered along four stages of local decision-making.•The …

Background: Despite a vast air pollution epidemiology literature to date and the recognition
that lower-socioeconomic status (SES) populations are often disproportionately exposed to …

Racial-ethnic minorities in the United States are exposed to disproportionately high levels of
ambient fine particulate air pollution (PM2. 5), the largest environmental cause of human …

Fossil fuels—coal, oil, and gas—lie at the heart of the interconnected crises we face,
including climate change, racial injustice, and public health. Each stage of the fossil fuel life …

Many households in the United States face issues of incomplete plumbing and poor water
quality. Prior scholarship on this issue has focused on one dimension of water hardship at a …

Green Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban" greening" from an
environmental justice and sustainable development perspective. Through a comparative …

Drinking water contaminated by per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) is a widespread
public health concern, and exposure–response relationships are known to vary across …

How lives are governed through emergency is a critical issue for our time. In this paper, we
build on scholarship on this issue by developing the concept of 'slow emergencies'. We do …

John Hannigan's definitive textbook offers a distinctive, balanced coverage of environmental
issues, policies and action. This revised fourth edition has been expanded and fully updated …

Given the serious adverse health effects associated with many pollutants, and the
inequitable distribution of these effects between socioeconomic groups, air pollution is often …