A5069422200- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Noise Effects and Management
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Risk Perception and Management
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Latin American and Latino Studies
- COVID-19 impact on air quality
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Impact of Light on Environment and Health
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Cuban History and Society
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
The Ohio State University
2015-2024
University of Michigan
2011
Exposing children to environmental pollutants during important times of physiological development can lead long-lasting health problems, dysfunction, and disease. The location children’s schools increase their exposure. We examined the extent air pollution from industrial sources around public in Michigan find out whether jeopardizes academic success. found that located areas with highest levels had lowest attendance rates—a potential indicator poor health—and proportions students who failed...
The increase of minimally managed vacant land resulting from population loss and the subsequent removal infrastructure is a reoccurring feature in shrinking cities around globe. Due to low frequency intensity management, these spaces create unique environment for plant colonization, establishment, succession. Herein we refer plants habitats they form as urban spontaneous vegetation (USV). As green space, USV has potential provide number ecological sociological benefits cities, such...
Large carnivores are threatened worldwide by a variety of human-driven factors, including persecution, which regularly results when they come into conflict with people.Although human activities almost universally viewed as negatively affecting carnivore conservation, we contend that conservation outcomes for improved social and economic forces reduce the risks associated these species facilitate acquisition values favorable to their conservation.We make three specific propositions: (1)...
This article takes a new approach to studying food access. It combines environmental justice analysis with systems thinking in an examination of the environment Detroit. The reviews access literature and identifies how each body scholarship's underlying assumptions help or distort our understanding urban environments. argues for more comprehensive approaches demonstrates such can be implemented. We collected data from multiple sources, including ReferenceUSA, Orbis, Michigan Department...
Why does growing up in a poor neighborhood impede cognitive development? Although large volume of evidence indicates that poverty negatively affects child outcomes, little is known about the mechanisms might explain these effects. In this study, we outline and test theoretical model effects on development highlights mediating role early life exposure to neurotoxic air pollution. To evaluate model, analyze data from national sample American infants matched with information their more than 50...
Environmental justice and health research demonstrate unequal exposure to environmental hazards at the neighborhood-level. We use an innovative method-eco-intersectional multilevel (EIM) modeling-to assess intersectional inequalities in industrial air toxics across US census tracts 2014. Results reveal stark analytic strata, with a 45-fold difference average between most least exposed. Low SES, multiply marginalized (high % Black, high female-headed households) urban communities experienced...
This study provides an empirical test of two mechanisms (social capital and exposure to air pollution) that are theorized mediate the effect neighborhood on health contribute racial disparities in outcomes. To this end, we utilize Social Capital Benchmark Study, a national survey individuals nested within communities United States, estimate how multiple dimensions social pollution, explain self-rated health. Our main findings show when controlling for individual-confounders, nesting...
The political mobilization of American business elites in the 1970s and 1980s has been well studied by scientists. Environmental sociologists have explored how industries this elite countermovement organized to prevent environmental legislation. literature often focuses on efforts movement shape public opinion climate change. However, scientists argue are running several parallel strategies simultaneously order protect their interests. FEC data utilized multilevel logit models examine...
Abstract Over 20 years have passed since Executive Order 12898 put environmental justice (EJ) issues on the policy agenda. Since this time, EJ has technically remained a priority at all levels of government. However, despite apparent commitment to EJ, research shown over decades after passage Order, we still see persistent trends in inequality air pollution exposure by race. This begs question: are policies actually working create environmentally just outcomes? article seeks evaluate...
Objective One major theory of environmental inequality is that firms follow a political path least resistance when locating polluting facilities in low‐income and minority communities. Such communities, this suggests, lack the social capital allows others to keep such at bay. We will test argument. Methods investigate whether communities across United States are located further from stationary sources airborne toxins depending on their levels capital. Results At some scales, we found with...
Despite the numerous food studies conducted in Detroit, none have assessed changes landscape over a decade. No previous study has systematically analyzed store closures city either. We will address these oversights by examining distribution of outlets ten years apart. This paper probes following questions: (1) How Detroit’s changed decade between 2013 and 2023? (2) Does Detroit fit definition desert or (3) swamp (4) Has supermarket redlining occurred (5) is population decline related to...
We compare the environmental voting behavior of Hispanic congressional members with those White and African American members, seek to explain disparities in long-term trends, discuss implications for future policy development. analyzed members' from 1995 2006. Multivariate regression models were employed determine what factors racial voting. more likely than White, but less American, vote proenvironmentally throughout period. Results show political party increasingly explains this...
Scholars interested in understanding the unequal exposure to environmental harms by race and class have often relied on urban sociological theory. Specifically, argument that outmigration of middle-class Whites African Americans from America’s industrial areas, decline manufacturing employment these communities, concentrated minority poverty around sites. These nested, community-level, processes not yet been measured as such inequality literature. This article addresses this limitation using...
The Hispanic/Latino health paradox is the well-known advantage seen across racial category in US. However, this collapses several distinct ethnic groups with varying spatial distributions. Certain populations, such as Dominicans and Cubans, are concentrated specific areas, compared to more dispersed Mexicans. Historical peculiarities have brought these populations into contact types of environmental exposures. This paper takes a first step towards unraveling diverse exposure profiles by...