In all cities and urban areas, the risk faced by people and assets from hazards associated
with climate change has increased (high confidence1). Urban areas are now home to 4.2 …

In the WHO European Region the topic of contaminated sites is considered a priority among
environment and health themes. Communities living in or close to contaminated sites tend to …

There is ample evidence that urban trees benefit the physical, mental, and social health of
urban residents. The environmental justice hypothesis posits that environmental amenities …

The co-production of urban services, such as water, energy or sanitation, is a vital tool to
advance service delivery and to challenge socioeconomic structures that reproduce urban …

This paper analyzes how racial and ethnic disparities in exposure to industrial air toxics in
US cities vary with neighborhood income, and how these disparities vary regionally across …

Maryland residents' knowledge of environmental hazards and their health effects is limited,
partly due to the absence of tools to map and visualize distribution of risk factors across …

Living in cities offers many benefits and thus more and more people are living in urban
areas. However, the concentration of human activities also creates environmental stressors …

Cities worldwide are grappling with complex urban environmental injustices. While
environmental justice as a concept has gained prominence in both academia and policy …

Like many industrialized regions, the Philadelphia metro area contains pockets of
environmental degradation: neighborhoods littered with abandoned waste sites, polluting …

The present study contributes to the environmental justice (EJ) literature by quantitatively
examining spatial location within a city through an intersectional lens. Specifically, we …