Background: Environmental health risks are disproportionately colocated with communities
in poverty and communities of color. In some cases, participatory research projects have …

Environmental health issues are becoming more challenging, and addressing them requires
new approaches to research design and decision-making processes. Participatory research …

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not
wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at …

This book examines the relationship between media and medicine, considering the
fundamental role of news coverage in constructing wider cultural understandings of health …

Insufficient attention has been paid to how research can be leveraged to promote health
policy or how locality-based research strategies, in particular community-based participatory …

Exceptionally clear and well-written chapters provide engaging discussions of the methods
of accessing, generating, and analyzing social science data, using methods ranging from …

Ideas of responsibility pervade social life, underpinning forms of governance, subjectivities,
and collective relations. Inspired by current analyses of neoliberal projects of …

From climate change to fossil fuel dependency, from the uneven effects of natural disasters
to the loss of biodiversity: complex socio-environmental problems indicate the urgency for …

An overview of green criminology (GC) is provided. That substantial literature is not easily
summarized, and here, some core issues are reviewed: defining green crimes, the scope of …

An examination of the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and of the varying
forms of activism that develop in response. Residents of rapidly industrializing rural areas in …