Sara E Grineski
Biographic Data
| ID | 97838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara E Grineski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara E |
| FAMILY NAME | Grineski |
| SIGNATURE | GRINESKI S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 143 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Contextualizing food apartheid through a racial capitalism analysis: The case of Utah's Wasatch Front, USA
Harmful dust from drying lakes: Preserving Great Salt Lake (USA) water levels decreases ambient dust and racial disparities in population exposure
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…
When Not Implemented Communally, Citizen Science Efforts May Reflect, Reinforce, and Potentially Exacerbate Environmental Injustice
We Need Environmental Health Justice Research and Action for LGBTQ+ People
A Comparative Approach for Environmental Justice Analysis: Explaining Divergent Societal Distributions of Particulate Matter and Ozone Pollution across U.S. Neighborhoods
Numerous environmental justice (EJ) studies demonstrate that U.S. racial and ethnic minorities experience disparate hazard exposures, but we lack knowledge about how the societal distribution of risk varies between hazard types and how neighborhood-level racial residential segregation influences patterns of environmental injustice. We address those limitations by comparatively analyzing disparities in exposures to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) …
Effects of mentoring relationship heterogeneity on student outcomes in summer undergraduate research
Faculty-mentored summer undergraduate research experiences (SUREs) have been shown to increase the diversity of students pursuing research careers. No existing studies have approached the issue of broadening participation in STEM research training by focusing on mentoring relationship heterogeneity (MRH) in the context of SUREs. Increasing MRH occurs when a mentee does not match a mentor in terms of gender and race/ethnicity and when the mentee’s…
Effects of PM2.5 on Third Grade Students’ Proficiency in Math and English Language Arts
Fine particulate air pollution is harmful to children in myriad ways. While evidence is mounting that chronic exposures are associated with reduced academic proficiency, no research has examined the frequency of peak exposures. It is also unknown if pollution exposures influence academic proficiency to the same degree in all schools or if the level of children's social disadvantage in schools modifies the effects, such that some schools' academic…
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…
Environmental injustice and Hurricane Harvey: A household-level study of socially disparate flood exposures in Greater Houston, Texas, USA
Distributional Environmental Injustices for a Minority Group without Minority Status: Arab Americans and Residential Exposure to Carcinogenic Air Pollution in the US
Distributional environmental injustices in residential exposure to air pollution in Arab American enclaves have not been examined. We conducted our investigation at the census tract-level across the continental United States using a set of socio-demographic variables to predict cancer risk from hazardous air pollutant (HAP) exposure. Arab enclaves had a mean cancer risk score of 44.08, as compared to 40.02 in non-enclave tracts. In terms of the s…
School bullying, body size, and gender: An intersectionality approach to understanding US children’s bullying victimization
We examine separate and combined effects of children's body size and gender on school bullying victimization in the US. Second-grade data from the 2012-2013 school year from the US Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2011 were analyzed, hierarchical generalized logistic modeling was used, and three forms of school bullying were studied. Girls were less likely than boys to be verbally or physically bullied and obese children …
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 …
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…
Race/Ethnicity, Obesity, and the Risk of Being Verbally Bullied: A National Multilevel Study
Environmental justice across borders
The chapter introduces the US–Mexico border region. The region is a microcosm for processes of uneven development worldwide but they are brought into stark relief, where the externalization of environmental risks from a core to a semiperipheral state is easily visible. It summarizes the environmental injustices occurring in the region at two scales: between the US and Mexico and then within border communities on each side. It offers a series of h…
Environmental justice and flood hazards
In recent decades, distributive justice issues have become centrally important in risk assessment of environmental risks and hazards. Recognition of social inequalities in the spatial distribution of toxic pollution hazards and risks, first in the United States and then globally, has spawned a vibrant social movement, policy debates, and a large body of research. This chapter discusses that, while distributive environmental justice (EJ) research …
Environmental injustice and sexual minority health disparities: A national study of inequitable health risks from air pollution among same-sex partners
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…
Health Status and Residential Exposure to Air Toxics: What Are the Effects on Children's Academic Achievement?
This article examines the effects of children's subjective health status and exposure to residential environmental toxins on academic performance for the first time, while adjusting for school-level effects using generalized estimating equations. The analysis employs National Air Toxics Assessment risk estimates and individual-level data collected through a mail survey. Results indicate that poorer subjective health status and higher levels of re…
Residential exposure to air toxics is linked to lower grade point averages among school children in El Paso, Texas, USA
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…
Environmental injustice along the US–Mexico border: Residential proximity to industrial parks in Tijuana, Mexico
Research in the Global North (e.g., US, Europe) has revealed robust patterns of environmental injustice whereby low income and minority residents face exposure to industrial hazards in their neighborhoods. A small body of research suggests that patterns of environmental injustice may diverge between the Global North and South due to differing urban development trajectories. This study uses quantitative environmental justice methods to examine spa…
Household-level disparities in cancer risks from vehicular air pollution in Miami
Environmental justice (EJ) research has relied on ecological analyses of socio-demographic data from areal units to determine if particular populations are disproportionately burdened by toxic risks. This article advances quantitative EJ research by (a) examining whether statistical associations found for geographic units translate to relationships at the household level; (b) testing alternative explanations for distributional injustices never be…
Local variability in the impacts of residential particulate matter and pest exposure on children’s wheezing severity: A geographically weighted regression analysis of environmental health justice
Environmental injustice and sexual minority health disparities: A national study of inequitable health risks from air pollution among same-sex partners
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…
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 …
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…
Why parents cross for children's health care: Transnational cultural capital in the United States–Mexico border region
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 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…
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…
Disparities in access to residential plumbing: A binational comparison of environmental injustice in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez
Mapping the uninsured using secondary data: An environmental justice application in Dallas
School bullying, body size, and gender: An intersectionality approach to understanding US children’s bullying victimization
We examine separate and combined effects of children's body size and gender on school bullying victimization in the US. Second-grade data from the 2012-2013 school year from the US Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2011 were analyzed, hierarchical generalized logistic modeling was used, and three forms of school bullying were studied. Girls were less likely than boys to be verbally or physically bullied and obese children …
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…
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…
A Comparative Approach for Environmental Justice Analysis: Explaining Divergent Societal Distributions of Particulate Matter and Ozone Pollution across U.S. Neighborhoods
Numerous environmental justice (EJ) studies demonstrate that U.S. racial and ethnic minorities experience disparate hazard exposures, but we lack knowledge about how the societal distribution of risk varies between hazard types and how neighborhood-level racial residential segregation influences patterns of environmental injustice. We address those limitations by comparatively analyzing disparities in exposures to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) …
Race/Ethnicity, Obesity, and the Risk of Being Verbally Bullied: A National Multilevel Study
Residential exposure to air toxics is linked to lower grade point averages among school children in El Paso, Texas, USA
Local variability in the impacts of residential particulate matter and pest exposure on children’s wheezing severity: A geographically weighted regression analysis of environmental health justice
A scalable climate health justice assessment model
Mapping vulnerability to climate change-related hazards: Children at risk in a US–Mexico border metropolis
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…
Exploring patterns of environmental injustice in the Global South: Maquiladoras in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
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…
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…
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…
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
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
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 …
Environmental injustice along the US–Mexico border: Residential proximity to industrial parks in Tijuana, Mexico
Research in the Global North (e.g., US, Europe) has revealed robust patterns of environmental injustice whereby low income and minority residents face exposure to industrial hazards in their neighborhoods. A small body of research suggests that patterns of environmental injustice may diverge between the Global North and South due to differing urban development trajectories. This study uses quantitative environmental justice methods to examine spa…
Household-level disparities in cancer risks from vehicular air pollution in Miami
Environmental justice (EJ) research has relied on ecological analyses of socio-demographic data from areal units to determine if particular populations are disproportionately burdened by toxic risks. This article advances quantitative EJ research by (a) examining whether statistical associations found for geographic units translate to relationships at the household level; (b) testing alternative explanations for distributional injustices never be…
Local variability in the impacts of residential particulate matter and pest exposure on children’s wheezing severity: A geographically weighted regression analysis of environmental health justice
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…
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…
A scalable climate health justice assessment model
Health Status and Residential Exposure to Air Toxics: What Are the Effects on Children's Academic Achievement?
This article examines the effects of children's subjective health status and exposure to residential environmental toxins on academic performance for the first time, while adjusting for school-level effects using generalized estimating equations. The analysis employs National Air Toxics Assessment risk estimates and individual-level data collected through a mail survey. Results indicate that poorer subjective health status and higher levels of re…
Residential exposure to air toxics is linked to lower grade point averages among school children in El Paso, Texas, USA
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…
Environmental justice across borders
The chapter introduces the US–Mexico border region. The region is a microcosm for processes of uneven development worldwide but they are brought into stark relief, where the externalization of environmental risks from a core to a semiperipheral state is easily visible. It summarizes the environmental injustices occurring in the region at two scales: between the US and Mexico and then within border communities on each side. It offers a series of h…
Environmental justice and flood hazards
In recent decades, distributive justice issues have become centrally important in risk assessment of environmental risks and hazards. Recognition of social inequalities in the spatial distribution of toxic pollution hazards and risks, first in the United States and then globally, has spawned a vibrant social movement, policy debates, and a large body of research. This chapter discusses that, while distributive environmental justice (EJ) research …
Environmental injustice and sexual minority health disparities: A national study of inequitable health risks from air pollution among same-sex partners
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…
Environmental injustice and Hurricane Harvey: A household-level study of socially disparate flood exposures in Greater Houston, Texas, USA
Distributional Environmental Injustices for a Minority Group without Minority Status: Arab Americans and Residential Exposure to Carcinogenic Air Pollution in the US
Distributional environmental injustices in residential exposure to air pollution in Arab American enclaves have not been examined. We conducted our investigation at the census tract-level across the continental United States using a set of socio-demographic variables to predict cancer risk from hazardous air pollutant (HAP) exposure. Arab enclaves had a mean cancer risk score of 44.08, as compared to 40.02 in non-enclave tracts. In terms of the s…
Geography (27 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Medicine (23 works) · Political science (22 works) · Environmental health (21 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (21 works) · Air Quality and Health Impacts (16 works) · Demography (15 works) · Environmental justice (15 works) · Population (15 works)