Visions for development and management of urban green and blue infrastructure: a citizen's perspective by Julia Palliwoda, Annegret Haase, Constantin Suppee, Dieter Rink, Joerg A. Priess

“…The strategy is focusing on five guiding themes that are leading local and global debates about sustainable and resilient cities: biodiversity, climate adaptation, environmental justice, health, and sustainable mobility. …”
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A multivariate analysis of CalEnviroScreen: comparing environmental and socioeconomic stressors versus chronic disease by Ben K. Greenfield, Jayant Rajan, Thomas E. McKone

“…Indicators were obtained from CalEnviroScreen (version 3.0), a publicly available environmental justice screening tool developed by the State of California Environmental Protection Agency. …”
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How policy interventions influence burning to meet cultural and small-scale livelihood objectives by Cathy Smith, Jacob Ainscough, Rahinatu S Alare, Abigail R Croker, Kayla M De Freitas, James D.A. Millington, Jayalaxshmi Mistry, Ol Perkins, Kate Schreckenberg, Francisco Seijo, Henry J Thompson, Michel Valette, Kapil Yadav

“…Though there is some recognition in the 21st century of a need, in certain contexts, to support local fire use, for reasons related to environmental justice, ecology, wildfire risk and climate change, the literature we reviewed points to several challenges for contemporary efforts toward this end. …”
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A systematic review of social equity in FEWS analyses by Tiffanie F. Stone, Loulou C. Dickey, Haleigh Summers, Janette R. Thompson, Chris R. Rehmann, Emily Zimmerman, John Tyndall

“…Research gaps identified during the review included a lack of studies effectively integrating all three systems, a need for publicly available datasets, omission of issues related to energy conversion facilities, and opportunities for integration of environmental justice modalities into FEWS research. This paper synthesized how social equity has previously been incorporated into FEWS and outlines pathways for further consideration of equity within nexus studies. …”
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Public Talks and Science Listens: A Community-Based Participatory Approach to Characterizing Environmental Health Risk Perceptions and Assessing Recovery Needs in the Wake of Hurri... by J. Sullivan, B. Parras, R. St. Marie, W. Subra, S. Petronella, J. Gorenstein, R. Fuchs-Young, R.K. Santa, A. Chavarria, J. Ward, P. Diamond

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Beauty or Blight? Abundant Vegetation in the Presence of Disinvestment Across Residential Parcels and Neighborhoods in Toledo, OH by Adam Berland, Dexter H. Locke, Dustin L. Herrmann, Kirsten Schwarz

“…A repeated finding in environmental justice research related to urban vegetation is that commonly marginalized populations live in neighborhoods with less vegetation. …”
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Economic impacts of a glacial period: a thought experiment to assess the disconnect between econometrics and climate sciences by M.-N. Woillez, G. Giraud, G. Giraud, G. Giraud, A. Godin, A. Godin

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Air quality and life expectancy in the United States: An analysis of the moderating effect of income inequality by Terrence D. Hill, Andrew K. Jorgenson, Peter Ore, Kelly S. Balistreri, Brett Clark

“…We discuss the implications of our results for future research in social epidemiology and environmental justice. Keywords: Air quality, Particulate matter, Income inequality, Life expectancy, Social epidemiology…”
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Fugitive Dust Associated with Scrap Metal Processing by Jeff Gearhart, Simone Sagovac, Tian Xia, Md Kamrul Islam, Albert Shim, Sung-Hee Seo, Melissa Cooper Sargent, Natalie R. Sampson, Jacob Napieralski, Ika Danielson, Stuart Batterman

“…Fugitive dust (FD) is a nuisance and potential health issue, particularly in environmental justice communities that can experience high levels of contaminated FD. …”
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Building resiliency or holding off the inevitable? climate adaptation on a dense barrier island in New York by Heneghan, Jessie L. (Jessie Lee)

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Exploring the effect of air pollution on social activity in China using geotagged social media check-in data by Yan, Longxu, Duarte, Fábio, Wang, De, Zheng, Siqi

“…We believe our finding contributes significantly to exposure risk assessment and environmental justice debates. Hence it highlights the necessity and urgency of public healthy polices that spread the health consequence of air pollution, especially in the underdeveloped region.…”
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Mobility as a public service : integrating civil rights laws in partnerships between transit agencies and ride-hailing companies by Damrosch, Peter(Peter Leopold)

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Impacts of Energy and Environmental Policies on Air Quality: Bridging Observational Data, Statistical, and Atmospheric Models by Qiu, Minghao

“…The second study evaluates the impacts of wind power development on air quality and related environmental justice issues in the US. We find substantial air quality benefits from existing wind power, but benefits would increase four-fold if policies could prioritize displacing the most damaging units. …”
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The post-disaster shrinking city : vacant land types, patterns, and strategies in post-Katrina New Orleans by McHugh, Colleen M. (Colleen Margaret)

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ParkIndex: Validation and application of a pragmatic measure of park access and use by Andrew T. Kaczynski, S. Morgan Hughey, Ellen W. Stowe, Marilyn E. Wende, J. Aaron Hipp, Elizabeth L. Oliphant, Jasper Schipperijn

“…ParkIndex has substantial value for park and urban planners, citizens, and researchers as a common metric to facilitate awareness, decision-making, and intervention planning related to park access, environmental justice, and community health.…”
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Photopaper as a tool for community-level monitoring of industrially produced hydrogen sulfide and corrosion by Lourdes Vera, Garance Malivel, Drew Michanowicz, Choong-Min Kang, Sara Wylie

“…Keywords: Citizen science, Hydrogen sulfide, Corrosion, Community science, Environmental justice, Oil extraction…”
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Injusticia ambiental en el periodismo : análisis de reportajes sobre contaminación por pesticidas by Ilza Maria Tourinho Girardi, Débora Gallas Steigleder, Jamille Almeida da Silva, Eloisa Beling Loose

“…We start from the concept of Acselrad (2010) on environmental justice. It is a notion that refers to sociopolitical dynamics, since it involves conflicts originating from the violation of the rights of human communities through the unsustainable use of the environment. …”
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Formulating Operational Mitigation Options and Examining Intra-Urban Social Inequality Using Evidence-Based Urban Warming Effects by Yuanhui Zhu, Soe W. Myint, Danica Schaffer-Smith, Danica Schaffer-Smith, Rebecca L. Muenich, Daoqin Tong, Yubin Li

“…Future UHI mitigation strategies seriously need to consider low-income communities to improve environmental justice. These can be used to guide the development of sustainable and equitable policies for vegetation management to mitigate heat exposure impacts on communities.…”
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The Modeling of a River Impacted with Tailings Mudflows Based on the Differentiation of Spatiotemporal Domains and Assessment of Water–Sediment Interactions Using Machine Learning... by João Paulo Moura, Fernando António Leal Pacheco, Renato Farias do Valle Junior, Maytê Maria Abreu Pires de Melo Silva, Teresa Cristina Tarlé Pissarra, Marília Carvalho de Melo, Carlos Alberto Valera, Luís Filipe Sanches Fernandes, Glauco de Souza Rolim

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O ativismo transnacional pela Amazônia: entre a ecologia política e o ambientalismo de resultados by Andréa Zhouri

“…This article discusses some dimensions of the new Amazon policies that are driven by a global market perspective and which may consequently render local and diverse cultures invisible, therefore opposing to environmental justice as a driving force for sustainability.…”
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