Environmental Injustice in GeoHealth
Environmental Injustice in GeoHealth
Session ID#: 121094
Session Description:
Environmental injustice is the disproportionate exposure of communities of color and lower income to adverse environmental conditions and the resulting health effects, which can manifest through unequal protection of communities through laws, enforcement, and policies. Often times, these communities don’t have the necessary resources to confront and eliminate these health burdens. Current examples of environmental injustice are sustained higher levels of air pollution within communities of color despite reductions from COVID-19 lock downs, Uranium-contaminated groundwater from mining within the Navajo Nation, and impacts to infrastructure and transportation of Alaska Indigenous peoples due to accelerated melting ice and permafrost in the arctic. The proliferation of climate change will exacerbate many of these long-standing issues, as well as pose new challenges. We invite abstracts that identify or monitor injustice, project new threats in response to climate change, and engage in community science regarding environmental injustice.
Index Terms:
0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
0240 Public health [GEOHEALTH]
0299 General or miscellaneous [GEOHEALTH]
6349 General or miscellaneous [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
Primary Convener: Morgan E. Gorris, Los Alamos National Laboratory, (A-1) Analytics, Intelligence, and Technology Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners: Sarah M Aarons, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Melisa Diaz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States
Primary Liaison: Morgan E. Gorris, Los Alamos National Laboratory, (A-1) Analytics, Intelligence, and Technology Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States
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