Risk scenarios are caused by the convergence of a hazard with a potentially affected system
in a specific place and time. One urban planning goal is to prevent environmental hazards …

Although quantitative environmental (in) justice research demonstrates a disproportionate
burden of toxic chemical hazard risks among racial/ethnic minorities and people in low …

Air pollution is one of the most challenging global sustainability problems in the world.
Roughly 90% of global citizens live in areas that exceed the acceptable air pollution levels …

This research investigates the spatial variations of vulnerability to toxic substance releases
under possible emergency outbreaks in Galveston County, Texas. By identifying the …

The problem investigated in this research is about the potential risk of technological
hazards, which poses a perilous threat to humankind and the environment. Rapid …

Due to structural racism and income inequality, exposure to environmental chemicals is
tightly linked to socioeconomic factors. In addition, exposure to psychosocial stressors, such …

Unplanned urbanization increases the exposure of people to environmental hazards. Within
a landscape ecology framework, this study is a diagnosis of human health risk in San Martín …

This dissertation seeks to extend quantitative research on environmental justice and
address methodological limitations of previous studies by:(a) using new indicators of …

This paper examines the spatial distributions of industrial facilities emitting toxic substances
in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan region. The analysis relies on geographic information …

Previous GIS-based methods for assessing regional environmental equity issues tended to
simplify the definition of impact area for a hazardous site by either directly adopting the pre …