Background: Cancer is the leading cause of death in Canada and a major cause of death
worldwide. Environmental exposure to carcinogens and environments that may relate to …

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

Health geographers have generally been content to adopt measures of distance, access
and the lack of resources as the metrics of social (in) justice without critically placing their …

Drawing on the traditions of environmental justice, intersectionality, and social determinants
of health, and using data from the EPA's NATA 2014 estimates of cancer risk from air toxics …

In recent decades there have been dramatic declines in industrial air toxins. However, there
has yet to be a national study investigating if the drop has mitigated the unequal exposure to …

Objectives. To assess the extent to which drinking water violations in the United States
differed on the basis of county race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status using the primary …

Although numerous studies have been conducted on the vulnerability of marginalized
groups in the environmental justice (EJ) and hazards fields, analysts have tended to lump …

Environmental justice and health research demonstrate unequal exposure to environmental
hazards at the neighborhood-level. We use an innovative method—eco-intersectional …

Recent environmental justice (EJ) research has emphasized the need to analyze social
inequities in the distribution of natural hazards such as hurricanes and floods, and examine …

Studies have demonstrated disparate exposures to carcinogenic hazardous air pollutants
(HAPs) in neighborhoods with high densities of Black and Hispanic residents in the US …