Climate change and environmental injustice in a bi-national context

Applied Geography

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-35

  Grineski, Sara E ^a   Collins, Timothy W ^a   Ford, Paula ^a   Fitzgerald, Rosa ^a   Aldouri, Raed ^a   Velázquez Angulo, Gilberto ^b   de Lourdes Romo Aguilar, Maria ^c   Lu, Duanjun ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE CIUDAD JUÁREZ   (Mexico)

^c Department of Environment and Natural Resources   (Mexico)

^d JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate gap; Climate justice; Environmental injustice; Flood; Heat; Ozone; US Mexico border

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; FLOODING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; OZONE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CHIHUAHUA; EL PASO; JUAREZ; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 82255186394     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.05.013     Document Type: Article

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