We sought to provide a historical overview of methods, models, and data used in the
environmental justice (EJ) research literature to measure proximity to environmental hazards …

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 …

This article examines the distribution of parks in Baltimore, Maryland, as an environmental
justice issue. In addition to established methods for measuring distribution of and access to …

Human exposure to excessively warm weather, especially in cities, is an increasingly
important public health problem. This study examined heat-related health inequalities within …

Local parks and walkable neighborhoods are commonly cited as elements of the urban
environment that promote physical activity and reduce obesity risk. When those vulnerable …

Regional climate change induced by rapid urbanization is responsible for and may result
from changes in coupled human-ecological systems. Specifically, the distribution of urban …

Background Heatwaves present a significant health risk and the hazard is likely to escalate
with the increased future temperatures presently predicted by climate change models. The …

Abstract By 2050, 70% of the Earth's human population will live in urban areas. Urbanization
can have a devastating impact on local ecosystems, but these impacts vary across time and …

This study introduces a novel, multidimensional methodology for empirically classifying
urban parks according to their physical, land cover, and built features. An equity analysis …