J Chakraborty
Biographic Data
| ID | 76811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Chakraborty |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Chakraborty |
| SIGNATURE | CHAKRABORTY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at El Paso |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0290-7362 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 66 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 392 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Unregulated and Unequal
On May 21, 2026, the failure of a methyl methacrylate (MMA) storage tank at GKN Aerospace Transparency Systems in Garden Grove, California, triggered the largest chemical emergency evacuation in recent Orange County history, displacing more than 40,000 residents. This commentary: (1) examines the regulatory conditions that did not provide this community with federal accident-prevention protections that are specifically designed for high-consequen…
Social disparities in extreme heat days across U.S. public schools
Although children are highly vulnerable to higher temperatures and spend significant portions of their time at school, extreme heat events at school locations have not been adequately examined in previous research on social inequalities in the distribution and impacts of heat exposure. We address this gap by conducting the first nationwide study of sociodemographic disparities in extremely hot days at U.S. public schools. Annual frequency of extr…
Using a Spatial Statistical Approach to Assess Cumulative Environmental Burdens for Public Housing Developments in the United States
While recent studies have drawn attention to the environmental justice implications of specific hazards and pollution sources for inhabitants of public housing developments (PHDs), previous research has not examined whether PHD residents are disproportionately exposed to the cumulative impacts of multiple environmental stressors. We address this gap by conducting the first systematic, national-scale analysis of the relationship between cumulative…
Using Local Indicators of Spatial Association to Analyze the Environmental Justice Implications of Ambient Air Pollution in the United States
This article demonstrates how local indicators of spatial association (LISA) can be applied to advance distributive environmental justice analysis of air pollution. It presents a case study that compares the spatial distributions of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) and social vulnerability at the neighborhood (census tract) level in the continental United States, to investigate the following questions: (1) Where does high ambient PM 2.5 pollutio…
Social Inequities in Exposure to Traffic-Related Air and Noise Pollution at Public Schools in Texas
Although children are particularly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of vehicular pollution and spend significant portions of their time at school, previous studies have not examined or compared school-level social inequities in exposure to both traffic-related air and noise pollution in the same study area. We addressed this gap through a case study in Texas-the second-largest US state based on total population and number of children. Vehicular …
Social Disparities in the Duration of Power and Piped Water Outages in Texas After Winter Storm Uri
We assessed sociodemographic disparities in basic service disruptions caused by Winter Storm Uri in Texas. We collected data through a bilingual telephone survey conducted in July 2021 (n = 753). Being Black, having children, and renting one’s residence were associated with longer power outage durations; being Black was also associated with longer water outages. Our findings highlight the need to plan for and ameliorate inequitable service outage…
Cascading disasters and mental health inequities
Social Inequities in Urban Heat and Greenspace
Climate change and rapid urbanization currently pose major challenges for equitable development in megacities of the Global South, such as Delhi, India. This study considers how urban social inequities are distributed in terms of burdens and benefits by quantifying exposure through an urban heat risk index (UHRI), and proximity to greenspace through the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), at the ward level in Delhi. Landsat derived rem…
Air Quality and Environmental Injustice in India
While air pollution levels in India are amongst the highest in the world, the link between exposure to air pollution and social disadvantages has not been systematically examined. Using a distributive environmental justice framework, this study connects fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) concentration data derived from satellite observations, a global chemical transport model, and ground-based measurements to district level socio-demographic infor…
Hazardous industries and distributive environmental injustice in Ahmedabad, India
Urbanization in India has been characterized by declining environmental quality and increasing class and caste segregations. These trends suggest the need to analyze distributive injustices that situate environmental hazards within urban scale inequalities. Our article seeks to address this need by linking the distribution of industrial facilities classified as Major Accident Hazard (MAH) units with the distribution of socially disadvantaged grou…
Social vulnerability to Hurricane Harvey
Unequal Proximity to Environmental Pollution
This article addresses the growing need to analyze the relationship between disability and environmental pollution, as well as contribute to emerging research that recommends an intersectional approach for studying the complexity of distributive environmental risks imposed on marginalized subpopulations in U.S. urban areas. It focuses on Harris County, which contains the city of Houston and the highest number of people with disabilities in the st…
Hurricane Harvey and Greater Houston households
Most disaster studies rely on convenience sampling and ‘after‐only’ designs to assess impacts. This paper, focusing on Hurricane Harvey (2017) and leveraging a pre‐/post‐event sample of Greater Houston households (n=71) in the United States, establishes baselines for disaster preparedness and home structure flood hazard mitigation, explores household‐level ramifications, and examines how preparedness and mitigation relate to health effects, event…
Environmental injustice and Hurricane Harvey
Vehicular Air Pollution in Houston, Texas
This article contributes to distributive environmental justice (EJ) research on air pollution by analyzing racial/ethnic and related intra-categorical disparities in health risk from exposure to on-road hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) in Harris County, Texas. Previous studies in this urban area have not examined intra-ethnic heterogeneity in EJ outcomes or disproportionate exposure to vehicular pollutants. Our goal was to determine how the EJ imp…
Exploring the Environmental Justice Implications of Hurricane Harvey Flooding in Greater Houston, Texas
Objectives. To assess the environmental justice implications of flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Greater Houston, Texas, we analyzed whether the areal extent of flooding was distributed inequitably with respect to race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, after controlling for relevant explanatory factors. Methods. Our study integrated cartographic information from Harvey’s Inundation Footprint, developed by the US Federal Emergency Management …
Hurricane Harvey and people with disabilities
Linking Industrial Hazards and Social Inequalities
Industrial development in India has rarely been studied through the perspective of environmental justice (EJ) such that the association between industrial development and significant economic and social inequalities remains to be examined. Our article addresses this gap by focusing on Gujarat in western India, a leading industrial state that exemplifies the designation of India as an "emerging economy." We link the geographic concentration of ind…
Spatial representation and estimation of environmental risk
Since the 1980s, a variety of analytic approaches have been used in environmental justice (EJ) research to estimate the geographic boundaries of areas exposed to environmental hazard sources and measure exposure to environmental risks. This chapter provides an overview and critical assessment of these approaches. It examines the commonly used methods and related assumptions, discusses their strengths and limitations, and traces how methodological…
The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice
The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice presents an extensive and cutting-edge introduction to the diverse, rapidly growing body of research on pressing issues of environmental justice and injustice. With wide-ranging discussion of current debates, controversies, and questions in the history, theory, and methods of environmental justice research, contributed by over 90 leading social scientists, natural scientists, humanists, and scholars…
Focus on environmental justice
More than three decades since the emergence of the environmental justice (EJ) movement in the U.S., environmental injustices continue to unfold across the world to include new narratives of air and water pollution, as well as new forms of injustices associated with climate change, energy use, natural disasters, urban greenspaces, and public policies that adversely affect socially disadvantaged communities and future generations. This focus issue …
Racial Differences in Perceptions of Air Pollution Health Risk
This article extends environmental risk perception research by exploring how potential health risk from exposure to industrial and vehicular air pollutants, as well as other contextual and socio-demographic factors, influence racial/ethnic differences in air pollution health risk perception. Our study site is the Greater Houston metropolitan area, Texas, USA-a racially/ethnically diverse area facing high levels of exposure to pollutants from both…
Environmental justice implications of industrial hazardous waste generation in India
While rising air and water pollution have become issues of widespread public concern in India, the relationship between spatial distribution of environmental pollution and social disadvantage has received less attention. This lack of attention becomes particularly relevant in the context of industrial pollution, as India continues to pursue industrial development policies without sufficient regard to its adverse social impacts. This letter examin…
Exposure to Flood Hazards in Miami and Houston
Although numerous studies have been conducted on the vulnerability of marginalized groups in the environmental justice (EJ) and hazards fields, analysts have tended to lump people together in broad racial/ethnic categories without regard for substantial within-group heterogeneity. This paper addresses that limitation by examining whether Hispanic immigrants are disproportionately exposed to risks from flood hazards relative to other racial/ethnic…
Cancer risks from exposure to vehicular air pollution
Quantitative environmental justice (EJ) research has relied on aggregated data from census units to determine disproportionate hazard exposure. Additionally, variables typically used to analyze ethnic inequities in exposure (e.g., percent Hispanic) are too broad and assume a degree of homogeneity that may not exist, given the diversity of ethnic minority populations. We address these limitations through a study that utilizes primary household lev…
Street Trees and Equity
While urban disamenities and pollution sources have received considerable attention in environmental justice research, few studies have examined sociospatial inequities associated with the distribution of desirable land uses. In this paper we focus on addressing this limitation by investigating the environmental equity implications of street trees-an important publicly financed amenity that provides several direct and indirect benefits to urban r…
Disproportionate Proximity to Environmental Health Hazards
We sought to provide a historical overview of methods, models, and data used in the environmental justice (EJ) research literature to measure proximity to environmental hazards and potential exposure to their adverse health effects. We explored how the assessment of disproportionate proximity and exposure has evolved from comparing the prevalence of minority or low-income residents in geographic entities hosting pollution sources and discrete buf…
Automobiles, Air Toxics, and Adverse Health Risks
Few environmental justice studies of air pollution have examined the adverse health implications of exposure to transportation-related emissions or used statistical techniques that are appropriate for spatial data. This article addresses these gaps by examining the distribution of cancer and respiratory risks from inhalation exposure to vehicular emissions of hazardous air pollutants in the Tampa Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area, Florida. This s…
Determinants of Reproductive Change in a Traditional Society
A decade has elapsed since a project was launched in Matlab, Bangladesh to test the hypothesis that contraceptive services can induce and sustain fertility decline in a rural traditional population. The demographic impact of this project has been pronounced, lending support to the view that supply-side policies can succeed even where institutional supports for demand are weak. This paper reviews the relationship between the Bangladesh climate of …
Understanding environmental health inequalities through comparative intracategorical analysis
The Demographic Impact of the Family Planning--Health Services Project in Matlab, Bangladesh
This paper evaluates the demographic impact of the Family Planning-Health Services Project in Matlab Thana of rural Bangladesh. The project was begun by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh in October 1977. Contraceptive services--including pills, condoms, IUDs, sterilization, and injectables--are supplemented by oral rehydration, tetanus toxoid, and other services. About 33 percent of eligible couples are using co…
Contraceptive Use in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1990
The results of a 1990 knowledge, attitudes, and practice survey in Matlab, Bangladesh, indicate that contraceptive prevalence has risen to 57 percent in the maternal and child health/family planning project area. Between 1984 and 1990 significant increases were registered in the proportions of women using contraceptives for the purposes of spacing and limiting births. By 1990 fertility control in the intervention area had become so widely diffuse…
Downscaling Environmental Justice Analysis
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 research by (1) examining whether statistical associations found for geographic units translate to relationships at the household level; (2) testing competing explanations for distributional injustices never before investi…
Using geographically weighted regression for environmental justice analysis
Maternal Mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh
This paper reports findings from a study of maternal mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh during the 1976-85 period. The study employed a multiple-step procedure to identify maternity-related deaths to all reproductive-aged women within the study area during this period. A total of 387 maternal deaths were identified, resulting in an overall maternal mortality ratio of 5.5 per 1,000 live births. The introduction of a family planning program in half of…
Children at risk
STUDY OBJECTIVE: This paper addresses the environmental justice implications of children's health by exploring racial/ethnic disparities in potential exposure to air pollution, based on both school and home locations of children and three different types of pollution sources, in Orange County, Florida, USA. METHODS: Using geocoded school and residence locations of 151 709 children enrolled in the public school system, distribution functions of pr…
Nutrition and post-partum amenorrhoea in Rural Bangladesh
A cross-sectional survey of 2048 breastfeeding women in rural Bangladesh was conducted in 1975 to explore factors affecting the duration of post-partum amenorrhoea. Information on menstrual status, infant supplementation, socio-economic status and anthropometric measurements was collected for lactating women with infants 13–21 months of age. The median length of amenorrhoea was observed to be over 18 months. There was a higher probability of bein…
Exploring the Environmental Justice Implications of Hurricane Harvey Flooding in Greater Houston, Texas
Objectives. To assess the environmental justice implications of flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Greater Houston, Texas, we analyzed whether the areal extent of flooding was distributed inequitably with respect to race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, after controlling for relevant explanatory factors. Methods. Our study integrated cartographic information from Harvey’s Inundation Footprint, developed by the US Federal Emergency Management …
Hazardous air pollutants and flooding
Residential Proximity to Environmental Hazards and Adverse Health Outcomes
How living near environmental hazards contributes to poorer health and disproportionate health outcomes is an ongoing concern. We conducted a substantive review and critique of the literature regarding residential proximity to environmental hazards and adverse pregnancy outcomes, childhood cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses, end-stage renal disease, and diabetes. Several studies have found that living near hazardous wastes sites, in…
Urban Heat and Climate Justice
The combined effects of two global trends, urbanization and climate change, have generated considerable concern regarding their adverse and disproportionate impacts on the health of urban populations. This study contributes to climate‐justice research by determining whether elevated levels of urban heat, indicated by land surface temperature (), are distributed inequitably with respect to race/ethnicity, age, and socioeconomic status in Pinellas …
Hispanic heterogeneity and environmental injustice
Integrating Health Services into an MCH-FP Program
Since 1977 the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, has conducted a field experiment in family planning and MCH in its Matlab research station. The project began with an emphasis on family planning and MCH services were added in stages. This paper uses time series regression methods to address the question of whether the addition of health services contributed to family planning efficacy in Matlab in a program launche…
Hurricane Harvey and people with disabilities
Cancer risks from exposure to vehicular air pollution
Quantitative environmental justice (EJ) research has relied on aggregated data from census units to determine disproportionate hazard exposure. Additionally, variables typically used to analyze ethnic inequities in exposure (e.g., percent Hispanic) are too broad and assume a degree of homogeneity that may not exist, given the diversity of ethnic minority populations. We address these limitations through a study that utilizes primary household lev…
Reproductive Tract Infections in a Family Planning Population in Rural Bangladesh
In contrast to social, religious, and economic determinants of acceptance and sustained use of family planning in developing countries, perceived side effects resulting from reproductive tract infections can usually be ameliorated easily and expeditiously. This population-based study examines the magnitude and nature of morbidity due to reproductive tract infections among users of various contraceptive methods and among nonusers in a rural commun…
The Matlab Family Planning-Health Services Project
The International Centre For Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, has found that the modified strategy of its Family Planning Health Services Programme (FPHSP), which is oriented toward meeting women's contraceptive needs within a full range of services, is more effective in helping women sustain contraceptive practice than the original household distribution program (CDP), which simply made oral contraceptives and condoms available. Only 40%…
New technologies, old divides
Acute respiratory infections (ARI) in rural Bangladesh
Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) are a major cause of death in children under five in rural Bangladesh. A popular strategy for lowering ARI mortality in such settings includes detecting and managing pneumonia in children at the community level. The success of programs using this approach requires a well-trained community-based cadre of health workers and the appropriate utilization of services provided. Determinants of health care seeking behav…
Hurricane Harvey and Greater Houston households
Most disaster studies rely on convenience sampling and ‘after‐only’ designs to assess impacts. This paper, focusing on Hurricane Harvey (2017) and leveraging a pre‐/post‐event sample of Greater Houston households (n=71) in the United States, establishes baselines for disaster preparedness and home structure flood hazard mitigation, explores household‐level ramifications, and examines how preparedness and mitigation relate to health effects, event…
Nutrition and post-partum amenorrhoea in Rural Bangladesh
A cross-sectional survey of 2048 breastfeeding women in rural Bangladesh was conducted in 1975 to explore factors affecting the duration of post-partum amenorrhoea. Information on menstrual status, infant supplementation, socio-economic status and anthropometric measurements was collected for lactating women with infants 13–21 months of age. The median length of amenorrhoea was observed to be over 18 months. There was a higher probability of bein…
Assessing Menstrual Regulation Performed by Paramedics in Rural Bangladesh
Describes and evaluates the performance of menstrual regulation by Bagladeshi lady family planning visitors in a clinic in Matlab and in 4 subcenter clinics. The feasibility of using menstrual regulation to evacuate uterine contents up to 9 weeks since the last menstrual period is also analyzed. The complication rates of the procedures studied compare favorably with rates reported for menstrual regulation procedures performed by physicians. It is…
The Matlab Family Planning-Health Services Project
The International Centre For Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, has found that the modified strategy of its Family Planning Health Services Programme (FPHSP), which is oriented toward meeting women's contraceptive needs within a full range of services, is more effective in helping women sustain contraceptive practice than the original household distribution program (CDP), which simply made oral contraceptives and condoms available. Only 40%…
Contraceptive Distribution in Bangladesh
Makhlisur Rahman, W. H. Mosley, Atiqur Rahman Khan, A. I. Chowdhury, J. Chakraborty, Contraceptive Distribution in Bangladesh: Some Lessons Learned, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 11, No. 6 (Jun., 1980), pp. 191-201
Changing Profile of Iud Users in Family Planning Clinics in Rural Bangladesh
In a rural area of Bangladesh IUD acceptors in the 2 years prior to the introduction of a family planning health services programme differed from the women who accepted IUDs following the initiation of the programme. The pre-programme acceptors were older, higher parity women who were using IUDs to terminate childbearing, in contrast to the post-programme acceptors who were younger, lower parity women who were using IUDs to space the next pregnan…
The Demographic Impact of the Contraceptive Distribution Project in Matlab, Bangladesh
This paper evaluates a study fielded in Bangladesh in 1975 to test the hypothesis that ubiquitous availability of pills and condoms in a rural, traditional, noncontracepting population would increase contraceptive use and reduce fertility. Treatment and comparison areas were designated in Matlab, an area with accurate and complete demographic data. Use prevalence peaked at 18 percent in the first three months of the project and declined thereafte…
The Demographic Impact of the Family Planning--Health Services Project in Matlab, Bangladesh
This paper evaluates the demographic impact of the Family Planning-Health Services Project in Matlab Thana of rural Bangladesh. The project was begun by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh in October 1977. Contraceptive services--including pills, condoms, IUDs, sterilization, and injectables--are supplemented by oral rehydration, tetanus toxoid, and other services. About 33 percent of eligible couples are using co…
Mortality Impact of an MCH-FP Program in Matlab, Bangladesh
Lincoln C. Chen, Makhlisur Rahman, Stan D'Souza, J. Chakraborty, A. M. Sardar, Mortality Impact of an MCH-FP Program in Matlab, Bangladesh, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 14, No. 8/9 (Aug. - Sep., 1983), pp. 199-209
Integrating Health Services into an MCH-FP Program
Since 1977 the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, has conducted a field experiment in family planning and MCH in its Matlab research station. The project began with an emphasis on family planning and MCH services were added in stages. This paper uses time series regression methods to address the question of whether the addition of health services contributed to family planning efficacy in Matlab in a program launche…
Integrating Health Services into an MCH-FP Program in Matlab, Bangladesh
This is a follow-up to a 1984 study that analyzed the relationship between areal variation in the contraceptive prevalence time series and in the intensity of maternal and child health (MCH) services of the Matlab Family Planning Health Services Project. Results based on 69 months of observation suggested that the addition of MCH components to a program with basic MCH and comprehensive family planning services had no incremental impact on family …
Impact of a family planning and health services programme on adult female mortality
In recent years, the issue of women's health in developing countries has received increased attention. Little is known, however, about the effectiveness of strategies to improve the health of women. An in novative family planning and health services programme, launched almost ten years ago, provides a unique opportunity to evaluate the impact of a service programme upon adult female mortality rates. A total of 1039 women aged 15 to 44 years died …
Maternal Mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh
This paper reports findings from a study of maternal mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh during the 1976-85 period. The study employed a multiple-step procedure to identify maternity-related deaths to all reproductive-aged women within the study area during this period. A total of 387 maternal deaths were identified, resulting in an overall maternal mortality ratio of 5.5 per 1,000 live births. The introduction of a family planning program in half of…
Determinants of Reproductive Change in a Traditional Society
A decade has elapsed since a project was launched in Matlab, Bangladesh to test the hypothesis that contraceptive services can induce and sustain fertility decline in a rural traditional population. The demographic impact of this project has been pronounced, lending support to the view that supply-side policies can succeed even where institutional supports for demand are weak. This paper reviews the relationship between the Bangladesh climate of …
Reproductive Tract Infections in a Family Planning Population in Rural Bangladesh
In contrast to social, religious, and economic determinants of acceptance and sustained use of family planning in developing countries, perceived side effects resulting from reproductive tract infections can usually be ameliorated easily and expeditiously. This population-based study examines the magnitude and nature of morbidity due to reproductive tract infections among users of various contraceptive methods and among nonusers in a rural commun…
Post‐flood nutritional anthropometry of children in Matlab, Bangladesh
The Matlab area was severely affected by the floods of 1988 in Bangladesh. To assess the impact of flooding in Matlab the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) performed post‐flood surveys. Six‐hundred households were surveyed. In addition, length, weight, and mid‐upper arm circumference were measured in children aged 6–35 months. Baseline economic status appeared to be higher inside the Matlab embankment, whe…
Contraceptive Use in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1990
The results of a 1990 knowledge, attitudes, and practice survey in Matlab, Bangladesh, indicate that contraceptive prevalence has risen to 57 percent in the maternal and child health/family planning project area. Between 1984 and 1990 significant increases were registered in the proportions of women using contraceptives for the purposes of spacing and limiting births. By 1990 fertility control in the intervention area had become so widely diffuse…
Cost-effectiveness of the Matlab MCH-FP Project in Bangladesh
The cost-effectiveness of a set of MCH and FP activities in Matiab, a rural area in Bangladesh, was examined using simplified methods. They looked only at the recurrent cost incurred by the provider on service delivery. Cost-effectiveness was measured separately for each intervention. Cost per death averted and cost per birth averted were measured with respect to a comparison area using cause-specific death and birth rates, respectively. Incremen…
An Atypical Hysteria Epidemic in Tripura, India
This paper reports an atypical hysteria epidemic in a tribal village of the State of Tripura, India. Twelve persons, eight female and four male, were affected in a chain reaction within a span of ten days. The cardinal feature was an episodic trance state of 5 to 15 minutes duration with restlessness, attempts at self-injury, running away, inappropriate behaviour, inability to identify family members, refusal of food and intermittent mimicking of…
Acute respiratory infections (ARI) in rural Bangladesh
Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) are a major cause of death in children under five in rural Bangladesh. A popular strategy for lowering ARI mortality in such settings includes detecting and managing pneumonia in children at the community level. The success of programs using this approach requires a well-trained community-based cadre of health workers and the appropriate utilization of services provided. Determinants of health care seeking behav…
Exploring the Use of Buffer Analysis for the Identification of Impacted Areas in Environmental Equity Assessment
Though circular buffer zones are commonly used in environmental equity assessment, the results obtained may not be entirely accurate because physical processes rarely operate in a perfectly symmetrical manner. An integrated approach, known as geographic plume analysis, accounts for directional biases in the distribution of hazards by using a chemical dispersion model to identify areas that are likely to be exposed to toxic releases. In this paper…
Spatial distribution of watery diarrhoea in children
Race, income, and home PC ownership
Race, income, and home PC ownership
Population Evacuation
Developing an effective evacuation strategy for hurricane zones presents challenges to emergency planners because of spatial differences in geophysical risk and social vulnerability. This study examines spatial variability in evacuation assistance needs as related to the hurricane hazard. Two quantitative indicators are developed: a geophysical risk index, based on National Hurricane Center and National Flood Insurance Program data, and a social …
Children at risk
STUDY OBJECTIVE: This paper addresses the environmental justice implications of children's health by exploring racial/ethnic disparities in potential exposure to air pollution, based on both school and home locations of children and three different types of pollution sources, in Orange County, Florida, USA. METHODS: Using geocoded school and residence locations of 151 709 children enrolled in the public school system, distribution functions of pr…
Environmental health (44 works) · Medicine (42 works) · Geography (41 works) · Political science (36 works) · Population (34 works) · Sociology (33 works) · Demography (32 works) · Environmental justice (31 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (31 works) · Demography (24 works)