Background The negative health impacts of traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) have been investigated for many decades, however, less attention has been paid to the effect of TRAP …
Objectives. To assess the environmental justice implications of flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Greater Houston, Texas, we analyzed whether the areal extent of flooding was …
R Sparrow, M Howard - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2017 - Elsevier
It is often argued that driverless vehicles will save lives. In this paper, we treat the ethical case for driverless vehicles seriously and show that it has radical implications for the future …
Authoritative and comprehensive, this is the leading text and professional resource on using geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze and address public health problems. Basic …
Air pollution levels in the United States have decreased dramatically over the past decades, yet national racial-ethnic exposure disparities persist. For ambient fine particulate matter …
ML Miranda, SE Edwards, MH Keating… - International journal of …, 2011 - mdpi.com
This paper assesses whether the Clean Air Act and its Amendments have been equally successful in ensuring the right to healthful air quality in both advantaged and …
GM Rowangould - Transportation Research Part D: Transport and …, 2013 - Elsevier
This study estimates the size and distribution of the population living near high volume roads in the US, investigates race and income disparities in these near roadway populations, and …
Although environmental justice (EJ) research in the United States has traditionally focused on technological hazards such as air pollution or hazardous waste, the adverse and …
A Gilbert, J Chakraborty - Social Science Research, 2011 - Elsevier
Previous quantitative research on environmental justice has been limited by simplistic assumptions used to measure health risks and traditional regression techniques that fail to …