The article reviews two decades of scholars' claims that exposures to pollution and other
environmental risks are unequally distributed by race and class, examines case studies of …

Environmental sociology has become a mature field within the discipline of sociology. We
consider several of the key theories that define the core and boundaries of the field, calling …

The grassroots movement that placed environmental justice issues on the national stage
around 1980 was soon followed up by research documenting the correlation between …

Human societies have always been deeply interconnected with our ecosystems, but today
those relationships are witnessing greater frictions, tensions, and harms than ever before …

Scholars in urban political ecology, urban geography, and planning have suggested that
urban greening interventions can create elite enclaves of environmental privilege and green …

In this report I argue that environmental racism is constituent of racial capitalism. While the
environmental justice movement has been a success on many levels, there is compelling …

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

From St. Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and minority
neighborhoods so beset by pollution that just living in them can be hazardous to your health …

Environmental justice has increasingly become part of the language of environmental
activism, political debate, academic research and policy making around the world. It raises …

As marginalized neighborhoods benefit from cleanup and environmental amenities often
brought by municipal sustainability planning, recent trends of land revaluation, investments …