Grineski
Biographic Data
| ID | 14079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grineski |
| FAMILY NAME | Grineski |
| SIGNATURE | GRINESKI |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3561-1755 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 103 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 334 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 103 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Misrecognition or heightened awareness? The role of local context in perceptions of environmental inequality across social groups
Public perceptions of environmental harm distributions reflect public consciousness about social inequalities and can influence social movements and policy. Yet existing scholarship suggests the question: Do groups disproportionately exposed to harms experience heightened awareness of environmental inequality, or do they misrecognize their levels of exposure compared to other groups, due, for example, to local narratives that attenuate perception…
Mentoring as care: Examining power and gender in faculty-undergraduate student relationships
Faculty mentoring has become increasingly vital as U.S. universities confront unprecedented challenges, yet sociologists have neglected to examine this work through the lens of care labor. Through in-depth interviews with 44 strategically sampled undergraduate students who conducted STEM-related research, we reconceptualize faculty mentoring as complex care relationships embedded within institutional hierarchies. Rather than treating gender as a …
Graduate school choice: How STEM students in the USA decide where to enroll
There is a dearth of research on which factors students consider when selecting among STEM graduate programs. This is an important knowledge gap because of the value of graduate STEM education to individuals and society. We leverage interview data collected in 2022 from rising seniors after they completed summer undergraduate research programs at different US universities and again in 2023 when they were in their first semester of graduate school…
Concerns About the Drying Great Salt Lake: What Do People Care About and Who Cares the Most
Research on public opinion and climate change is extensive, yet we lack knowledge about how concern varies across social groups and those with varied experiences with regard to multiple dimensions of impact (e.g., economics, health, recreation) of a local climate change-related issue. Utah’s drying Great Salt Lake provides a unique case in which to examine this. We collected survey data with Salt Lake County residents ( n = 515). Multivariable st…
Comparative assessment of residential property values at risk to flooding: The case of Utah, USA
Comparing methods for measuring park access and equity using US census microdata in metropolitan Miami
Knowledge from prior park equity studies has been limited by differences in the spatial analytic techniques applied to measure park accessibility, a lack of systematic methods comparisons, and overreliance on aggregated spatial data. Our study addresses these issues using individual-level, restricted-access US Census American Community Survey microdata ( n = 339,000) from 2015 to 2019 to compare (a) alternative techniques for measuring access to …
Climate Gaps: Disparities in residential air conditioning access across ten US metropolitan areas
“You Feel Empowered”: Parents’ Emotional Responses to Air Pollution Sensing at Home
Citizen science with particulate matter sensors at home increases awareness of pollution exposures and can inform health-protective actions, yet little research explores the emotional dimensions of sensing, especially across economic divides. This study shows that participatory air quality sensing is not emotionally neutral. We included 26 parents of asthmatic children in 10 weeks of participatory sensing with indoor and outdoor sensors to unders…
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…
Geographic and social inequalities in public school proximity to active landfills in the U.S
Intersectionality of water insecurity on the US-Mexico border: A novel micro-level analysis
If You Had a Sensor, You Would Know: Unequal Exposures and Behavioral Responses to Indoor Air Pollution
Contextualizing food apartheid through a racial capitalism analysis: The case of Utah's Wasatch Front, USA
Spatial Social Polarization and Cardiometabolic Disease Prevalence and Incidence: What Is the Role of the Neighborhood Environment
This study examines the spatial polarization of income and racial-ethnic groups as predictors of prevalent and incident cardiometabolic disease and tests the extent to which local environmental features act as mediators. Spatial income and racial polarization are defined using the Index of Concentration at the Extremes. Using two waves of data from the Midlife in the United States study, generalized Poisson regression model results indicate that …
The Silver Lining of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Undergraduate Research Experiences, Mentorship, and Posttraumatic Growth
Harmful dust from drying lakes: Preserving Great Salt Lake (USA) water levels decreases ambient dust and racial disparities in population exposure
Anxiety and depression after winter storm Uri: Cascading disasters and mental health inequities
Climate change greatly escalates forest disturbance risks to US property values
Anthropogenic climate change is projected to drive increases in climate extremes and climate-sensitive ecosystem disturbances such as wildfire with enormous economic impacts. Understanding spatial and temporal patterns of risk to property values from climate-sensitive disturbances at national and regional scales and from multiple disturbances is urgently needed to inform risk management and policy efforts. Here, we combine models for three major …
Air quality sensors and distributional environmental justice: A case study of Salt Lake County, Utah
Ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) causes health problems and is monitored by U.S. federal and state governments. Due to gaps in public monitoring, people rely on non-regulatory air quality monitoring networks (NAQMNs), comprised of low-cost PM2.5 sensors, to obtain air quality information. While environmental justice studies have examined social disparities in PM2.5 and sensor distribution, none have examined disparities in university-purch…
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…
Federally Overlooked Flood Risk Inequities in Houston, Texas: Novel Insights Based on Dasymetric Mapping and State-of-the-Art Flood Modeling
In the United States, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) delineates 100-year flood zones to define risks, regulate flood insurance premiums, and inform flood management. Evidence indicates that FEMA flood maps are incomplete, calling much of our current knowledge of U.S. flood hazard inequities into question. We use a state-of-the-art flood hazard model and census tract-level dasymetrically mapped sociodemographic data to examine floo…
Environmental Injustice, Tree Canopy Cover, and Academic Proficiency at Utah Public Primary Schools
Findings suggest targeting carefully designed tree planting efforts at socially disadvantaged schools and testing interventions involving tree planting and changes in academic proficiency
A US National Study of Barriers to Science Training Experienced by Undergraduate Students during Covid-19
Undergraduate research is a high-impact practice on college campuses. How the COVID-19 pandemic has affected undergraduate researchers' progress is poorly understood. We examine how demographics, academic characteristics, research disruptions and faculty mentorship are associated with four barriers to research progress. Data are drawn from a survey of over 1000 undergraduate student researchers across the US. We examine students who actively cont…
Redlining, racism and food access in US urban cores
When Not Implemented Communally, Citizen Science Efforts May Reflect, Reinforce, and Potentially Exacerbate Environmental Injustice
Asian Americans and disproportionate exposure to carcinogenic hazardous air pollutants: A national study
Understanding environmental health inequalities through comparative intracategorical analysis: Racial/ethnic disparities in cancer risks from air toxics in El Paso County, Texas
Environmental injustice and sexual minority health disparities: A national study of inequitable health risks from air pollution among same-sex partners
Criteria Air Pollution and Marginalized Populations: Environmental Inequity in Metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona
Objectives. Our objective is to examine spatial relationships between modeled criteria air pollutants (i.e., nitrous oxides, carbon monoxide, and ozone) and sociodemographics in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Modeled air pollution offers environmental justice researchers a new and robust data source for representing chronic environmental hazards. Methods. We used multiple regression equations to predict criteria pollution levels using sociodemogr…
Downscaling Environmental Justice Analysis: Determinants of Household-Level Hazardous Air Pollutant Exposure in Greater Houston
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…
Immigration, mobility, and environmental injustice: A comparative study of Hispanic people’s residential decision-making and exposure to hazardous air pollutants in Greater Houston, Texas
Exploring patterns of environmental injustice in the Global South: Maquiladoras in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
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: A comparative interurban study of environmental injustice
Sexual Orientation, Gender, and Environmental Injustice: Unequal Carcinogenic Air Pollution Risks in Greater Houston
Disparate residential hazard exposures based on disadvantaged gender status (e.g., among female-headed households) have been documented in the distributive environmental justice literature, yet no published studies have examined whether disproportionate environmental risks exist based on minority sexual orientation. To address this gap, we use data from the US Census, American Community Survey and the Environmental Protection Agency at the 2010 c…
Hispanic Immigrants' Vulnerabilities to Flood and Hurricane Hazards in Two United States Metropolitan Areas
Research reveals that disasters are disproportionately debilitating for marginalized social groups. Numerous studies have examined racial/ethnic dimensions of disaster vulnerability, but few have focused on Hispanic immigrants. More research on Hispanic immigrants is needed, since they constitute a major component of the Hispanic population—the largest and fastest‐growing minority group in the U.S.—and because they experience distinctive cultural…
Hispanic heterogeneity and environmental injustice: Intra-ethnic patterns of exposure to cancer risks from traffic-related air pollution in Miami
Hurricane Harvey and people with disabilities: Disproportionate exposure to flooding in Houston, Texas
Cancer risks from exposure to vehicular air pollution: A household level analysis of intra-ethnic heterogeneity in Miami, Florida
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…
Why parents cross for children's health care: Transnational cultural capital in the United States–Mexico border region
Redlining, racism and food access in US urban cores
Environmental Injustice and Religion: Outdoor Air Pollution Disparities in Metropolitan Salt Lake City, Utah
The distributive environmental justice literature has expanded beyond examining only race- and class-based injustices, but no studies have focused on religion’s influence on disparate environmental risks. We address that gap using data from the decennial U.S. Census, American Community Survey, and Environmental Protection Agency for 2010 census tracts to examine a proxy measure of Mormon prevalence, racial and ethnic composition, and socioeconomi…
The burden of carcinogenic air toxics among Asian Americans in four US metro areas
Mental Health Disparities Among Low-Income US Hispanic Residents of a US-Mexico Border Colonia
Neighborhood context and the Hispanic health paradox: Differential effects of immigrant density on children׳s wheezing by poverty, nativity and medical history
Sonic injustice: Disparate residential exposures to transport noise from road and aviation sources in the continental United States
The Durability of Immigration-Related Barriers to Health Care Access for Hispanics Across Generations
Conventional manners of operationalizing generational status in studies of health care access in the United States implicitly assume that individuals assimilate into U.S. culture by the 3rd generation. This limits understandings of immigrant health care access as it remains unknown if disparities persist beyond the 3rd generation. Survey data from caretakers of Hispanic schoolchildren in El Paso (Texas, USA; n = 1,568) were utilized in generalize…
Local Struggles for Environmental Justice: Activating Knowledge for Change
Environmental knowledge and how it is acquired and deployed are important features of local environmental politics in the US. This paper is an ethnography of a community-based participatory research effort for environmental justice in Phoenix, Arizona. Residents, professional community activists, and university-based researchers worked together to conduct a health and environmental concerns survey and monitor air quality in a low-income Latino ne…
Ancestry-Based Intracategorical Injustices in Carcinogenic Air Pollution Exposures in the United States
Previous studies of US environmental inequalities have focused on racial/ethnic differences in air pollutant exposure. Few have applied an intracategorical framework, which enables the identification of within-group differences through the examination of subgroups. We applied this framework to examine exposure disparities between 26 ancestry/ethnic origin groups within five US racial/ethnic categories. Data come from the US Census, American Commu…
Hurricane Harvey and Greater Houston households: Comparing Pre‐event Preparedness With Post‐event Health Effects, Event Exposures, and Recovery
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…
Tuberculosis and urban growth: Class, race and disease in early Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Local Struggles for Environmental Justice: Activating Knowledge for Change
Environmental knowledge and how it is acquired and deployed are important features of local environmental politics in the US. This paper is an ethnography of a community-based participatory research effort for environmental justice in Phoenix, Arizona. Residents, professional community activists, and university-based researchers worked together to conduct a health and environmental concerns survey and monitor air quality in a low-income Latino ne…
Incorporating health outcomes into environmental justice research: The case of children's asthma and air pollution in Phoenix, Arizona
Asthma is a health condition that is also an environmental justice issue. Using an environmental justice frame, this paper explores socio-demographic, indoor hazard, and air quality factors that contribute to disparities in asthma hospitalizations. Multivariate Poisson regression models predicting asthma hospitalizations at the zip code level are employed to examine the case of metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona (AZ). Controlling for socio-demographic…
Unequal Impacts of Downtown Redevelopment: The Case of Stadium Building in Phoenix, Arizona
The public finance rationale for building sports stadiums has been assessed through city-level impact analyses. Conclusions suggest that stadiums do not typically produce aggregate economic benefits for cities that build them. An argument that stadiums will locally revitalize declining central cities continues to be made by private-public developers, yet questions about local impacts of stadium building have been inadequately studied. Bank One Ba…
Criteria Air Pollution and Marginalized Populations: Environmental Inequity in Metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona
Objectives. Our objective is to examine spatial relationships between modeled criteria air pollutants (i.e., nitrous oxides, carbon monoxide, and ozone) and sociodemographics in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Modeled air pollution offers environmental justice researchers a new and robust data source for representing chronic environmental hazards. Methods. We used multiple regression equations to predict criteria pollution levels using sociodemogr…
Childhood Asthma, Public Housing, and Environmental Control: Differences Between Families Renting with Section 8 Vouchers and Those Living in the Projects
Hazardous environments (both indoor and outdoor) play a role in explaining asthma disparities between poor and affluent children. Through a focus on Phoenix (Arizona) case, this article examines the historical development of subsidized housing and the contemporary role that it plays in protecting poor children with asthma from environmental triggers. Through in-depth interviews with parents, the ways in which living in subsidized housing influenc…
Exploring patterns of environmental injustice in the Global South: Maquiladoras in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Human–Environment Interactions and Environmental Justice: How Do Diverse Parents of Asthmatic Children Minimize Hazards
While environmental justice researchers have established enduring linkages between environmental hazards and poor populations, little is known about the human–environment interactions of urbanites of varying socioenvironmental positions. To investigate how humans interact with differentially polluted urban environments, 53 interviews with parents of asthmatic children living in the central city and the suburbs were conducted. Parents used four te…
Marginalization and health: Children's asthma on the Texas‐Mexico border
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate children's vulnerability to asthma and its relationship with marginalized locations. More specifically, the effects of zip code level social predictors on children's asthma and their conditionality on location in the Texas‐Mexico border region are explored. The border region is perhaps the most marginalized in the USA. Design/methodology/approach Data for analysis comes from the State of Texas a…
Parental Accounts of Children's Asthma Care: The Role of Cultural and Social Capital in Health Disparities
This article explores the roles of cultural and social capital in shaping parental experiences with children's health care in order to better understand how socioeconomic status (SES) functions as a fundamental cause of health disparities. Specifically, accounts given by 53 socioeconomic and racially/ethnically diverse parents about their experiences managing their child's asthmatic health care are considered. Key sources of cultural capital incl…
Predicting Children's Asthma Hospitalizations: Rural and Urban Differences in Texas
Asthma is the number one chronic health condition facing children today; however, little is known about rural-urban inequalities in asthma. This 'area effects on health' study examines rural-urban differences in childhood asthma hospitalizations within the state of Texas using negative binomial regression models. Effects associated with residence on the Texas-Mexico border, where the majority of rural Texas children live, are also considered. Nei…
No Safe Place: Environmental Hazards & Injustice along Mexico's Northern Border
This article examines spatial relationships between environmental hazards (i.e., pork feed lots, brick kilns, final assembly plants and a rail line) and markers of social marginality in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Juárez represents an opportunity for researchers to test for patterns of injustice in a recently urbanizing metropolis of the Global South. We use spatial-econometric modeling to predict the four unique hazard variables and a composite hazar…
Exploring the Efficacy of an Environmental Health Intervention in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
This study explores the efficacy of an environmental health intervention in several poor colonias in Ciudad Juárez (Mexico). Parents of children with respiratory problems were given environment-friendly products intended to replace hazardous products used in the home, as well as information about environmental health. Parents were surveyed before and after to measure the effectiveness of the intervention and to gauge perceptions. There was a sign…
Understanding environmental health inequalities through comparative intracategorical analysis: Racial/ethnic disparities in cancer risks from air toxics in El Paso County, Texas
Environmental Injustices in Transnational Context: Urbanization and Industrial Hazards in El Paso/Ciudad Juárez
The sister cities of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua form one of the largest manufacturing complexes in the world, and provide a unique context in which to examine transnational patterns of environmental injustice. In this paper, we explore residential patterns of environmental injustice related to the location of industrial facilities (ie maquiladoras and facilities regulated by the Toxics Release Inventory) in the El Paso-Juárez met…
Using Visual Images to Achieve Environmental Justice: A Case Study of the Asarco Copper Smelter in El Paso, Texas
Little research has focused on the use of visual imagery in struggles for environmental justice (EJ). This article contributes to knowledge by gauging respondents' reactions to two images used in a recent conflict surrounding the proposed reopening of a copper smelter owned by the American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO) in El Paso, Texas. After viewing the images, respondents voiced concern about environmental injustices and expressed int…
Mapping the uninsured using secondary data: An environmental justice application in Dallas
Why parents cross for children's health care: Transnational cultural capital in the United States–Mexico border region
Hispanic Health Disparities After a Flood Disaster: Results of a Population-Based Survey of Individuals Experiencing Home Site Damage in El Paso (Texas, USA)
Disrupted by violence: Children's well-being and families' economic, social, and cultural capital in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
Since 2008, Ciudad Juarez (Chihuahua, Mexico) has been undergoing a wave of violence due to a drug war, making the city a difficult environment in which to raise a family. This study uses qualitative methodology that incorporates 16 in-depth interviews with parents of children ages 0-5 years and 9 sets of photos from a subset of interviewed parents. The study explores how families' economic, social, and cultural capital has been disrupted by the …
Disparities in access to residential plumbing: A binational comparison of environmental injustice in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez
Raising children in a violent context: An intersectionality approach to understanding parents' experiences in Ciudad Juárez
Hispanic heterogeneity and environmental injustice: Intra-ethnic patterns of exposure to cancer risks from traffic-related air pollution in Miami
Mapping vulnerability to climate change-related hazards: Children at risk in a US–Mexico border metropolis
Social and Spatial Inequities in Exposure to Flood Risk in Miami, Florida
Although environmental justice (EJ) research in the United States has traditionally focused on technological hazards such as air pollution or hazardous waste, the adverse and unequal impacts of Hurricane Katrina have prompted researchers to examine the EJ implications of natural events such as hurricanes and floods. This paper contributes to this emerging literature on EJ and social vulnerability to natural hazards by analyzing racial/ethnic and …
Geography (71 works) · Medicine (59 works) · Sociology (58 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (51 works) · Political science (51 works) · Environmental health (50 works) · Demography (40 works) · Air Quality and Health Impacts (38 works) · Population (36 works) · Demography (34 works)