A Utility Roadmap for Expanding Customer Adoption of Electric Vehicles by Zac Hathaway, Hilary Polis, Jen Loomis, John Boroski, Aaron Milano, Jasmine Ouyang

“…Findings also highlight the barriers environmental justice communities face with EVs and provide insights into how utilities can address misconceptions and increase awareness of the benefits of EVs for these groups.…”
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Governance learning from collective actions for just climate adaptation in cities by Mahir Yazar, Håvard Haarstad, Lene Lundøy Drengenes, Abigail York

“…Drawing on the insights of two cities experiencing climate impacts differently, Bergen (Norway) and Istanbul (Turkey), this paper assesses how collective actions influence different levels of governments (local to national) to learn from these actions to implement just climate actions in their localities. Using environmental justice (specifically recognition and procedural) and policy learning literature, we contextualize a three-governance learning typology that emerges through collective actions that may trigger governance structures for policy integration: governance learning by resisting, co-opting, and expanding. …”
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A Bird’s-Eye View of Colonias Hosting Forgotten Americans and Their Community Resilience in the Rio Grande Valley by Dean Kyne

“…Without tackling these challenges, achieving meaningful progress in community resilience becomes a daunting task. Applying an environmental justice lens to the issues faced by colonia communities helps shed light on the systemic inequalities and injustices they experience.…”
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Political ecology, variegated green economies, and the foreclosure of alternative sustainabilities by Connor Joseph Cavanagh, Tor Arve Benjaminsen

“…With few exceptions, however, political ecologists have paid decidedly less attention to expounding upon alternative initiatives for pursuing both sustainability and socio-environmental justice. Accordingly, the contributions to this Special Section engage the concept of the green economy explicitly as a terrain of struggle, one inevitably conditioned by the variegated forms that actually-existing 'green economy' strategies ultimately take in specific historical and geographical conjunctures. …”
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Meanings, drivers, and motivations for community-based conservation in Latin America by Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, Christoph Schunko, Esteve Corbera, Matthias Rös, Victoria Reyes-García

“…First, incentive-based conservation policies can stimulate people’s economic interests and mobilize individual and collective behavior toward the formalization of conservation-oriented actions. Second, environmental justice concerns, such as international and national movements for the recognition of indigenous peoples’ rights, can support local people’s sense of autonomy and result in increased control over their territory and resources, as well as a renewed conservation commitment. …”
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The sustainable growth paradigm : implications for technology and policy by Pierrakakis, Kyriakos

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Urban ecocriticism and Kolkata's metamorphosis: a narrative exploration of environmental crisis in Jhumpa Lahiri's the lowland by Akhter, Zaid, Islam, Md. Sahidul

“…The novel serves as evidence of Kolkata's environmental crisis as a symptom of broader societal issues, highlighting themes of environmental justice, sustainability, and the need for alternative development models. …”
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Integrating Human Health into Environmental Impact Assessment: Review of Health Impact Assessment in Thailand by Phayong Thepaksorn, Wattasit Siriwong, Sathirakorn Pongpanich

“…The review resulted in the following recommendations to increasing Thailand’s EHIA capacity: 1) develop tools and guidelines for implementation in each project types; 2) train EHIA experts and conduct EHIA courses to build capacity; 3) ensure meaningful participation of private sector and the public; 4) bring together all parties in the debate, and build consensus through community participation and the upholding of environmental justice including EHIA communication; and 5) work to ensure strong public participation and political engagement. …”
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North–South Dialogue on Territorial Policies and Discourses: Insights for the Future of Nature Conservation by Pamela E. Degele, Belén Pedregal

“…We conclude with some recommendations aimed at building bridges and contributing to the construction of future global conservation strategies from a critical and territorial perspective that tends towards integrating sustainability with social and environmental justice.…”
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Systematic content analysis: A combined method to analyze the literature on the daylighting (de-culverting) of urban streams by Luna Khirfan, Megan Peck, Niloofar Mohtat

“…Therefore, this study reassesses the literature on stream daylighting with a particular focus on its role, as a nature-based solution, for climate change mitigation and adaptation and for socio-environmental justice. We combine the systematic literature review (an all-encompassing review of the available literature on stream daylighting) with the inductive content analysis (an in-depth analysis of this literature's nature). …”
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Mycorrhizal fungi and soil factors influence toxic element uptake in urban grown produce by Logan Bowdish, Adalie Duran, Justin Richardson, Eric Vukicevich

“…Abstract Despite the need for more urban‐grown produce, toxic elements contaminated soils continue to be a major barrier to food production and food sovereignty in urban areas and a continued health and environmental justice issue. Although the US EPA provides recommendations regarding levels of soil lead that are safe for gardening, soil abiotic and biotic factors as well as plant identity play a major role in determining the actual crop uptake of toxic elements. …”
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'I want to be screened just like the pirates!': The Power of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Theatre to Aid Research Participation by Rhonda Spencer, Jayden Hwang, Ryan Sinclair, Fatimah Alramadhan, Susanne Montgomery

“… Research participation is an important component of advancing whole health and eliminating health disparities, especially in communities facing environmental justice (EJ) issues. Though federally mandated, recruitment of racial and ethnic minorities can be a daunting task and recruitment of children an even greater challenge. …”
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Influencing factors of air-quality perception in China: What is constructed? What is hidden? by Xiangming Zeng, Gengjiao Yang

“…Furthermore, there is a need to pursue economic and environmental justice between developed and undeveloped areas. …”
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Multiple Stories, Multiple Marginalities: The Labor-Intensive Forest and Fire Stewardship Workforce in Oregon by Emily Jane Davis, Carl Wilmsen, Manuel A. Machado, Gianna M. Alessi

“…Study and practice can contribute new knowledge to inform this and expand current conceptions of equity and environmental justice in the wildfire governance literature to become more inclusive of the forest and fire stewardship workforce.…”
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Green Gentrification, Social Justice, and Climate Change in the Literature: Conceptual Origins and Future Directions by Roberta Cucca, Michael Friesenecker, Thomas Thaler

“…The analysis shows that the concept of green gentrification has strong roots within the environmental justice debate in the US. In terms of intervention, most studies focused on urban parks and trees and were primarily oriented towards restoration. …”
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O Latifúndio Genético e a R-existência Indígeno-Camponesa by Carlos Walter Porto Gonçalves

“…We desire that environmental justice may be made. Key-words: communities, territoriality biotecnology.…”
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Wildlife institutions highly salient to human attitudes toward wildlife by Leandra Merz, Elizabeth F. Pienaar, Timothy Fik, Shylock Muyengwa, Brian Child

“…This new and important finding highlights the possibility that institutions that address environmental justice, including the devolution of wildlife to local communities, may be more salient than the conventional measures of costs and benefits for understanding human‐wildlife coexistence. …”
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Empirical Evidences for Urban Influences on Public Health in Hamburg by Malte von Szombathely, Benjamin Bechtel, Bernd Lemke, Jürgen Oßenbrügge, Thomas Pohl, Maike Pott

“…From the current perspectives of urban health and environmental justice research, health is the result of a combination of individual, social and environmental factors. …”
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Social media enables people-centric climate action in the hard-to-decarbonise building sector by Ramit Debnath, Ronita Bardhan, Darshil U. Shah, Kamiar Mohaddes, Michael H. Ramage, R. Michael Alvarez, Benjamin K. Sovacool

“…With greater online engagement and information diffusion, social and environmental justice topics emerge in the online discourse. …”
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Do fossil fuel firms reframe online climate and sustainability communication? A data-driven analysis by Ramit Debnath, Danny Ebanks, Kamiar Mohaddes, Thomas Roulet, R. Michael Alvarez

“…Second, the industry is more likely to respond to IGOs’ and NGOs’ online messaging changes, especially regarding environmental justice and climate action topics. The fossil fuel industry is more likely to discuss public relations, advertising, and corporate sustainability topics. …”
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