Housing is a major pathway through which health disparities emerge and are sustained over
time. However, no existing unified conceptual model has comprehensively elucidated the …

Abstract In the United States, one is born into a family that can be identified as working class,
middle class, or affluent—divisions that denote status and power, as defined by access to …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The application of probability and statistics to an ever-widening number of life-decisions
serves to reproduce, reinforce, and widen disparities in the quality of life that different groups …

Previous quantitative research on environmental justice has been limited by simplistic
assumptions used to measure health risks and traditional regression techniques that fail to …

Environmental sociology is a growing field producing a diverse body of literature while also
moving into the mainstream of the larger discipline. The twin goals of this paper are to …

Modern forms of drilling and extraction have recently led to a boom in oil and gas production
in the US and stimulated a controversy around its economic benefits and environmental and …