A framework for drivers fostering social-ecological restoration within forest landscape based on people’s participation. A systematic literature review by Leonidas Maniraho, Marina Frietsch, Stefan Sieber, Katharina Löhr

“…The drivers relate to including the most affected communities, privileging local knowledge and practices, empowering local representatives and opinion leaders, ensuring social and environmental justice and equity, targeting deep leverage points, aligning restoration practices with local needs and aspirations, and connecting neighboring communities. …”
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GeoAir—A Novel Portable, GPS-Enabled, Low-Cost Air-Pollution Sensor: Design Strategies to Facilitate Citizen Science Research and Geospatial Assessments of Personal Exposure by Yoo Min Park, Sinan Sousan, Dillon Streuber, Kai Zhao

“…GeoAir can be used by all citizens regardless of their technical proficiency and is widely applicable in many fields, including environmental justice and health disparity research.…”
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Quantifying the impacts of urbanization on urban green, evidences from Maga City, Lahore Pakistan by Ateeq ur Rehman, Asad Aziz, Muhammad Mushahid Anwar, Muhammad Majeed, Jasem A. Albanai, Hussein Almohamad, Hazem Ghassan Abdo

“…The study uses Geographical Information Science for the identification of green spaces, calculation of their total area, and quantification of green cover extent by using NDVI, to comparing them with population to analyzed the environmental justice. To check the social perspective of the population regarding green areas and their importance among urban people, a comparison has been made with the presence of parks in the area, their association with living conditions and quality of life of locals. …”
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Possible moral ecologies, the function of everyday curation, and the experience of regions by Kirsten Valentine Cadieux

“…Keywords: moral economy, food systems, curation, critical regional studies, land use planning, participatory action research, environmental justice, integrated natural resource management science…”
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Urban Ecological Stewardship: Understanding the Structure, Function and Network of Community-based Urban Land Management by Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika S. Svendsen

“…The organizational networks are self-contained and do not include business or even legal groups, which may point to a gap between stewardship and environmental justice organizations.…”
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Bibliometric analysis of equity in transportation by Maurici Ruiz-Pérez, Joana Maria Seguí-Pons, Xavier Salleras-Mestre

“…Cluster analyses highlight focal points and themes, such as accessibility, mobility, social aspects, transport and spatial equity, environmental justice, transport planning, active transport, and methodological evaluations. …”
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Biogeochemical characterization of municipal compost to support urban agriculture and limit childhood lead exposure from resuspended urban soils by Maia G. Fitzstevens, Rosalie M. Sharp, Daniel J. Brabander

“…Chronic low-level lead exposure among low-income minority children is an urgent environmental justice issue. Addressing this ubiquitous urban public health crisis requires a new transdisciplinary paradigm. …”
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Spatiotemporal Patterns and Socioeconomic Contexts of Vegetative Cover in Altamira City, Brazil by Scott Hetrick, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Eduardo Brondizio, Emilio Moran

“…While studies of urban environmental justice in the global north largely report that greener urban landscapes prevail in affluent neighborhoods, our analysis reveals significantly lower vegetative cover in higher-income sectors of Altamira. …”
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Detection and Quantification of Bisphenol A in Surface Water Using Absorbance–Transmittance and Fluorescence Excitation–Emission Matrices (A-TEEM) Coupled with Multiway Techniques... by Thomas Ingwani, Nhamo Chaukura, Bhekie B. Mamba, Thabo T. I. Nkambule, Adam M. Gilmore

“…It is necessary to spatially relate surface water contamination data with other datasets in order to connect drinking water quality issues with health, environmental restoration, and environmental justice concerns.…”
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Courting emissions: climate adjudication and South Africa’s youth by Bright Nkrumah

“…As a result, there have been a growing number of young South Africans advocating for environmental justice. Surprisingly, their effort has not yielded the expected result as the country continues to emit a high amount of greenhouse gases. …”
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A Scoping Review Examining Governance, Co-Creation, and Social and Ecological Justice in Living Labs Literature by Lindsay P. Galway, Charles Z. Levkoe, Rachel L. W. Portinga, Kathryn Milun

“…and, are social and/or environmental justice considered in LLs work? From the 729 citations gathered in the electronic database searches, 48 papers were identified as relevant through the screening and eligibility assessment. …”
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Participatory Governance of Culture and Cultural Heritage: Policy, Legal, Economic Insights From Italy by Christian Iaione, Christian Iaione, Elena De Nictolis, Maria Elena Santagati

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The curse of coal or peripherality? Energy transitions and the socioeconomic transformation of Czech coal mining and post-mining regions by Frantál Bohumil, Frajer Jindřich, Martinát Stanislav, Brisudová Lucia

“…The fact that coal mining districts are at the forefront in the implementation of wind energy may be seen as positive, but it raises questions about spatial concentration, and the environmental justice of renewable energy development.…”
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Contribution of Indigenous Peoples' understandings and relational frameworks to invasive alien species management by Priscilla M. Wehi, Katie L. Kamelamela, Kyle Whyte, Krushil Watene, Nicholas Reo

“…We make the theoretical case that centring Indigenous management frameworks promises to strengthen overall management responses and outcomes because they attend directly to human and environmental justice concerns. We unpack the origins of the ‘introduced species paradigm’ to understand how binary framing of so‐called ‘aliens’ and ‘natives’ recalls harmful histories and alienates Indigenous stewardship. …”
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Title: advancing urban health equity in the United States in an age of health care gentrification: a framework and research agenda by Helen V. S. Cole, Emily Franzosa

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Air pollution impacts of amine scrubbing for CO2 capture by Gary T. Rochelle

“…The Center for International Law and 50 other organizations published an open letter claiming that “CCS is not consistent with the principles of environmental justice… CCS makes dirty energy even more dangerous for frontline communities. …”
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And, I mean every word of it: Comments on Francis Dupuis-Déri’s “Global Protesters Versus Global Elite: Are Direct Action and Deliberative Politics Compatible ?” by Genevieve Fuji Johnson

“…However, casting protest as legitimate in the framework of deliberative politics and as serving deliberative democracy obscures its own value in endeavors to achieve social, economic, and environmental justice. Being sympathetic to Dupuis-Déri’s work, I wish to make several, interrelated conceptual and practical clarifications in order to bring back to the fore the fundamental importance of protest, in terms of contributions not to deliberative politics and deliberative democracy but to public discourse.À partir d’une analyse de la manière dont les actions directes s’opposent aux injustices économiques et environnementales et peuvent contribuer à faire avancer et à réaliser la politique délibérative, Francis Dupuis-Déri examine la tension historique et importante entre la force brute et le pouvoir de persuasion. …”
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Risk screening methods for extreme heat: Implications for equity-oriented adaptation. by Lynée L Turek-Hankins, Miyuki Hino, Katharine J Mach

“…Here, we use an equity-oriented adaptation program from the state of California as a case study to evaluate the implications of the currently used environmental justice index (CalEnviroScreen 3.0) for the identification of socially vulnerable communities with climate change adaptation needs. …”
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Spatial Justice and Regional Inequality: An Interdisciplinary Systematic Review by H. Dadashpoor, N. Alvandipour

“…In order to overcome these challenges, justice-oriented approaches such as territorial justice, environmental justice, and spatial justice have been raised. …”
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Building capacity for mainstreaming nature-based solutions into environmental policy and landscape planning by Mario V Balzan, Judita Tomaskinova, Marcus Collier, Lynn Dicks, Davide Geneletti, Miriam Grace, Davide Longato, Renata Sadula, Pavel Stoev, Anna Sapundzhieva

“…It will host key outputs relating to the sustainable use of biodiversity, biodiversity – ecosystem functioning, green infrastructure and ecosystem service assessments across rural-urban gradients, equitable access to the benefits derived from nature in cities and socio-environmental justice, payments for ecosystem services, and designing nature-based solutions.…”
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