A5073260946- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Noise Effects and Management
- Career Development and Diversity
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Mentoring and Academic Development
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Risk Perception and Management
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Higher Education Research Studies
- Disaster Response and Management
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Education Systems and Policy
- Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Health and Medical Research Impacts
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Indigenous and Place-Based Education
- Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
- Urban Planning and Governance
University of Utah
2017-2025
New York Academy of Sciences
2023
John Wiley & Sons (Germany)
2023
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
2023
Hudson Institute
2023
The University of Texas at El Paso
2012-2022
Duke University
2022
University of Edinburgh
2020
Collaborative Group (United States)
2017
El Paso Community College
2011-2016
To assess the environmental justice implications of flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Greater Houston, Texas, we analyzed whether areal extent was distributed inequitably with respect to race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, after controlling for relevant explanatory factors.Our study integrated cartographic information Harvey's Inundation Footprint, developed by US Federal Emergency Management Agency, sociodemographic data 2012-2016 American Community Survey. Statistical analyses were...
Although environmental justice (EJ) research in the United States has traditionally focused on technological hazards such as air pollution or hazardous waste, adverse and unequal impacts of Hurricane Katrina have prompted researchers to examine EJ implications natural events hurricanes floods. This paper contributes this emerging literature social vulnerability by analyzing racial/ethnic socioeconomic inequities distribution flood risk exposure Miami Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA),...
Abstract: Drawing upon insights from the field of urban political ecology, this article extends critical hazards concept marginalization by incorporating a relational focus on facilitation . Facilitation connotes institutionally mediated process that enables powerful geographical groups people to minimize negative environmental externalities and appropriate positive in particular places, with unjust socioenvironmental consequences. The demonstrates utility marginalization/facilitation frame...
Preventing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in correctional and detention facilities* can be challenging because of population-dense housing, varied access to hygiene facilities supplies, limited space for isolation quarantine (1). Incarcerated detained populations have a high prevalence chronic diseases, increasing their risk severe COVID-19-associated illness making early detection critical (2,3). Correctional are not closed systems; SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19,...
Climate change is exacerbating flood risks globally. In the U.S., Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) delineate areas at high risk (i.e., 100-year floodplains), however, FIRMs are incomplete and outdated. We utilize estimates from advanced modeling sociodemographic data census tract level to examine inequities in federally-overlooked flooding across conterminous United States (CONUS). Using multivariable statistics that account for clustering...
For women and transgender/gender nonconforming students, experiencing depression reduced their personal skills gains from undergraduate research, but higher quality mentoring attenuated that negative effect for gains. men, was not significantly associated with research.
Through a study of human response to wildfire hazards, this article addresses the question: What influences hazard mitigation? Results from household-level multiple regression analysis using structured survey, exposure, and secondary data reveal that social vulnerability, place dependency, contextual are important determinants mitigation hazards. Lower income renter households engage in less than higher homeowner households; these findings reflect underlying issues vulnerability. The role...
Environmental justice (EJ) research has relied on ecological analyses of coarse-scale areal units to determine whether particular populations are disproportionately burdened by toxic risks. This article advances quantitative EJ (1) examining statistical associations found for geographic translate relationships at the household level; (2) testing competing explanations distributional injustices never before investigated; (3) adverse health implications hazardous air pollutant (HAP) exposures;...
Although numerous studies have been conducted on the vulnerability of marginalized groups in environmental justice (EJ) and hazards fields, analysts tended to lump people together broad racial/ethnic categories without regard for substantial within-group heterogeneity. This paper addresses that limitation by examining whether Hispanic immigrants are disproportionately exposed risks from flood relative other (including US-born Hispanics), adjusting relevant covariates. Survey data were...
While environmental justice (EJ) research in the United States has focused primarily on social distribution of chronic pollution risks, previous empirical studies have not analyzed disparities exposure to both (long‐term) and acute (short‐term) same study area. Our article addresses this limitation though a case that compares inequities risks Greater Houston Metropolitan Statistical Area, Texas. The integrates estimates cancer risk associated with ambient hazardous air pollutants from...
Objectives Although research shows that public health is substantially affected during and after disasters, few studies have examined the effects of Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall on Texas coast in August 2017. We assessed disparities physical health, mental care access Harvey among residents Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land, Texas, metropolitan statistical area (ie, Houston MSA). Methods used structured survey data collected through telephone online surveys from a population-based...