Environmental Justice: Disproportionate Exposures to Toxic Contaminants
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Exposome Analysis and Risk Assessment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 3273
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bioinorganic chemistry; biogeochemistry; metals; environmental exposure; water; soil; toxicology; environmental justice
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Across the globe, disadvantaged groups are exposed to environmental pollutants at higher rates and concentrations, either intentionally due to prejudice or unintentionally due to systemic racism. The field of environmental justice aims to detect these disproportionate exposures and develop interventions to alleviate them, providing equitable access to healthy environments and protection from environmental harms. Although the field may be best known from its beginnings in the United States in the 1980s with a PCB landfill in North Carolina and before that with pesticide exposures highlighted by the labor movement of Cesar Chavez, similar concerns have been identified in other areas of the world, demonstrating that environmental justice is truly a global concern.
This Special Issue will feature reports of known and emerging contaminants with disproportionate impacts on minoritized communities. Articles can focus on detection and analysis, human exposure measurement, toxicological studies, and mitigation approaches. Original research articles, narrative and systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and short communications will be considered for inclusion, with a focus on bringing environmental justice issues to light by identifying sources and presenting strategies to mitigate exposures with approaches that account for cultural sensitivities by including community input and participation.
We look forward to receiving your contribution.
Dr. James M. Harrington
Dr. Rios-Colon Leslimar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental exposure
- environmental justice
- emerging contaminants
- exposome
- heavy metals
- drinking water
- air pollution
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