Fostering Environmental Health Literacy in Contaminated Sites: National and Local Experience in Italy From a Public Health and Equity Perspective by Daniela Marsili, Daniela Marsili, Roberto Pasetto, Roberto Pasetto, Ivano Iavarone, Ivano Iavarone, Lucia Fazzo, Lucia Fazzo, Amerigo Zona, Amerigo Zona, Pietro Comba

“…Consideration of socioeconomic fragilities and vulnerable groups in well-designed EHL practices contributes to prevent adverse health effects induced by specific environmental exposures and to promote environmental justice at local level.…”
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Promoting urban ecological resilience through the lens of avian biodiversity by Michael W. D. McCloy, Michael W. D. McCloy, R. Keith Andringa, R. Keith Andringa, Terri J. Maness, Jennifer A. Smith, Jacquelyn K. Grace, Jacquelyn K. Grace

“…Finally, we provide recommendations on future research regarding strategies to improve urban ecological resilience and thus, urban resilience as a whole, at the intersections of urban ecology, ecosystem ecology, environmental justice, and urban planning. Since 68% of the world’s population is projected to live in urban areas by 2050, it is imperative that scientists, urban planners, civil engineers, architects, and others consider urban ecological resilience as a dimension of both environmental health and the resilience of cities to future natural and anthropogenic stressors.…”
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Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas: perspectives on indicators, knowledge gaps, barriers, and opportunities for action by Nadja Kabisch, Niki Frantzeskaki, Stephan Pauleit, Sandra Naumann, McKenna Davis, Martina Artmann, Dagmar Haase, Sonja Knapp, Horst Korn, Jutta Stadler, Karin Zaunberger, Aletta Bonn

“…As an outcome of the workshop discussions and building on existing evidence, we highlight three main needs for future science and policy agendas when dealing with nature-based solutions: (i) produce stronger evidence on nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation and mitigation and raise awareness by increasing implementation; (ii) adapt for governance challenges in implementing nature-based solutions by using reflexive approaches, which implies bringing together new networks of society, nature-based solution ambassadors, and practitioners; (iii) consider socio-environmental justice and social cohesion when implementing nature-based solutions by using integrated governance approaches that take into account an integrative and transdisciplinary participation of diverse actors. …”
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Transitioning to sustainable academic conferences needs more experimentation and reflection by Rob Raven, Paris Hadfield, Brianna Butler, Jennifer Eagleton, Gael Giraud, Merin Jacob, Jochen Markard, Katharina Schiller, Mark Swilling, Mapula Tshangela

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Factors associated with self-reported health: implications for screening level community-based health and environmental studies by Jane E. Gallagher, Adrien A. Wilkie, Alissa Cordner, Edward E. Hudgens, Andrew J. Ghio, Rebecca J. Birch, Timothy J. Wade

“…Abstract Background Advocates for environmental justice, local, state, and national public health officials, exposure scientists, need broad-based health indices to identify vulnerable communities. …”
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Drinking water quality and social vulnerability linkages at the system level in the United States by Bridget R Scanlon, Robert C Reedy, Sarah Fakhreddine, Qian Yang, Gregory Pierce

“…Growing recognition of water quality concerns, particularly in socially vulnerable communities in the United States, has prompted recent policies and investments to improve drinking water system performance. Current environmental justice tools limit measurement of drinking water quality issues to proximity to point-source contamination, such as superfund sites and social vulnerability to county level or zip code level data. …”
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Learning through interdisciplinary dialogue: Methodological approaches for bridging epistemological divides by Eleanor Brown, Joshua Kirshner, Lynda Dunlop, Richard Friend, Sally Brooks, Kelly Redeker, Ana Zimmermann, Paul H Walton, João Cairo, Fernanda Veneu

“…We found these encounters created opportunities to influence the trajectory of each other’s research and thinking, with the ideal of social and environmental justice prominent in all our discussions. It was through ongoing learning and dialogue that we found that the multifaceted challenges of sustainable development research can become more open, more critical and more able to reveal appropriate solutions and promote relevant ongoing scientific research. …”
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Urban Forest Research in Malaysia: A Systematic Review by Keeren Sundara Rajoo, Daljit Singh Karam, Arifin Abdu, Zamri Rosli, Geoffery James Gerusu

“…These research gaps are especially evident in four areas—soil science, ecophysiology, valuation (economics), and environmental justice. These research gaps should be addressed by the scientific community to ensure a thorough and complete research growth pertaining to urban forestry.…”
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The complexities of measuring access to parks and physical activity sites in New York City: a quantitative and qualitative approach by Sohler Nancy L, Maantay Juliana A, Maroko Andrew R, Grady Kristen L, Arno Peter S

“…Since populations with a low socio-economic status as well as racial and ethnic minorities tend to experience worse health outcomes in the USA, access to parks and physical activity sites may be an environmental justice issue. Geographic Information systems were used to conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses of park accessibility in New York City, which included kernel density estimation, ordinary least squares (global) regression, geographically weighted (local) regression, and longitudinal case studies, consisting of field work and archival research. …”
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Acciones entrelazadas contra daños ambientales graves: el impacto de Shell en Nigeria by Antoni Pigrau, Antonio Cardesa-Salzmann

“…Este artículo se basa en uno de los estudios de caso realizados en el marco de un proyecto más amplio de investigación vinculado al Proyecto Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT), VII Programa Marco de la Unión Europea, Número FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2010–1, y al proyecto de investigación, financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de España, «La garantía jurídica de la vertiente intrageneracional de la justicia ambiental como aspecto social del desarrollo sostenible» (DER2010-19529).…”
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Socio-ecological analysis of the eutrophication in Chesapeake Bay, USA by María Esther Leyva Ollivier, María Esther Leyva Ollivier, Alice Newton, Heath Kelsey

“…The health of Chesapeake Bay benefits all stakeholders and wildlife, so the reduction of ecosystem services results in Impacts on society’s welfare and well-being, the economy, and environmental justice. Examples are decreased fishery yields and poorer water quality, affecting aesthetics, tourism, and ultimately human health. …”
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Improvement in OCD symptoms associated with serotoninergic psychedelics: a retrospective online survey by Anne Buot, Cecile Pallares, Alina Oganesyan, Charles Dauré, Valérie Bonnelle, Eric Burguière, Joao Flores Alves Dos Santos, Karim N’Diaye, Michael Ljuslin, Pauline Smith, Vincent Verroust, Benjamin Wyplosz, Margot Morgiève, Luc Mallet

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Empowering communities through comprehensive community-based energy advocacy : assessing energy programs and advocacy in California and New Mexico by Figueroa Aguilar, Roxanne de Lourdes, 1973-

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Street science : the fusing of local and professional knowledge in environmental policy by Coburn, Jason

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Community Involvement in commuter rail improvements : the case of the Fairmount Line in Boston by Lai, Andrew (Andrew Borhaur)

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Chapter 6. Scaling Up Solutions to State, National and Global Levels by Daniel Kammen, Doug Rotman, Magali Delmas, David Feldman, Mike Mielke, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Daniel Sperling

“…All work must include a focus on environmental justice both at home in California and through global partnerships.…”
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Sustainable farmers, deficient State? Self-reported agricultural sustainability in the Argentine Chaco region by Lucas Seghezzo, Laura Liliana Huaranca, Mónica Liliana Vega, Gabriela Virginia Jeckeln, Marcela Andrea Avalos, Martín Alejandro Iribarnegaray, José Norberto Volante, Federico Hernán Mónico Serrano, Matías Mastrangelo, Zhanli Sun, Daniel Müller

“…We also made use of a political ecology approach to situate our case study and put our empirical results in perspective by relating them to issues of power and environmental justice. Our findings suggest that local farmers perceive their production systems as barely sustainable, with variables such as type of activity and farm size, among others, clearly influencing their sustainability estimations. …”
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The Value of Urban Nature in Terms of Providing Ecosystem Services Related to Health and Well-Being: An Empirical Comparative Pilot Study of Cities in Germany and the Czech Republi... by Ralf-Uwe Syrbe, Ina Neumann, Karsten Grunewald, Patrycia Brzoska, Jiři Louda, Birgit Kochan, Jan Macháč, Lenka Dubová, Petr Meyer, Jan Brabec, Olaf Bastian

“…The ES of urban green space provide other social-cultural functions alongside public health, for example by fostering environmental justice and citizenship participation. Thus, they should always be considered when searching for solutions to urban problems. …”
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Measuring Spatial and Temporal PM_2.5 Variations in Sacramento, California, Communities Using a Network of Low-Cost Sensors by Anondo Mukherjee, Steven G. Brown, Michael C. McCarthy, Nathan R. Pavlovic, Levi G. Stanton, Janice Lam Snyder, Stephen D’Andrea, Hilary R. Hafner

“…No significant difference in the average sensor PM concentrations between environmental justice (EJ) and non-EJ communities (<i>p</i> value = 0.24) was observed.…”
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A perspective on tools for assessing the building sector’s greenhouse gas emissions and beyond by Fiona Greer, Paul Raftery, Gail Brager, Arpad Horvath

“…Future WBLCA tools need to be able to assess, in detail, how different design, construction, transportation, operation, and end-of-life decisions for a building not only affect GHG emissions, but other key sustainability goals including resilience to climate change, environmental justice, and human health of local communities.…”
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