Who benefits from environmental policy? An environmental justice analysis of air quality change in Britain, 2001-2011

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Mitchell, Gordon ^a   Norman, Paul ^a   Mullin, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

air quality; environmental justice; environmental standard; fine particulates; health inequalities; longitudinal analysis; nitrogen dioxide

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HEALTH; NITROGEN OXIDES; QUALITY CONTROL; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS; FINE PARTICULATES; LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS; NITROGEN DIOXIDES;

AIR QUALITY STANDARDS;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84966269135     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/10/105009     Document Type: Article

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