OBJECTIVES We sought to demonstrate the advantages of using individual-level survey data in quantitative environmental justice analyses and to provide new evidence regarding racial and socioeconomic disparities in the distribution of polluting industrial facilities. METHODS Addresses of respondents in the baseline sample of the Americans' Changing Lives Study and polluting industrial faciliti...

1National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC 20460, USA 2Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada H3T 1A8 3National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protect...

biodiversity degradation, lose of wetlands and arsenic pollution are becoming the major environmental threats of bangladesh. huge number of population, corruption and lack of capacity of the governmental agencies are deteriorating the over environmental condition of bangladesh. this paper reports the findings of ngos and their role in protection of wetlands of bangladesh. ministry of environmen...

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Northbound roads from Ankara, the capital of Turkey pass through immensely wide plains containing almost no trees. There is a small hill above Tuney village located at the right side of the road 80 km north of Ankara, and it is conspicuous by a small forest. How did this forest survive until today? This is a curious question for everybody interested in nature. This study aims to review and anal...

A better understanding of when and why nudges (e.g., defaults, visibility or accessibility alterations) and other structural behavior-change measures work or fail can help avoid subsequent surprises such as unexpected political opposition. In this paper, we challenge the unilateral focus on structural interventions-which seemingly control people's behavioral decisions-as such a focus ignores th...

The increasing trend of opencast coal mining in India tends to release huge amounts of dust. But there is no well-defined method of estimating dust emission due to different coal mining activities. This paper examines the sources of dust emission due to coal mining activities, and focuses on the quantification of dust emission with the development and use of emission factors. Because of their s...