Lara Cushing|Rachel Morello?Frosch|Madeline Wander|Manuel Pastor
The Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Health of Everyone: The Relationship Between Social Inequality and Environmental Quality
University of California, Berkeley|University of Southern California|University of Southern California
growing body literature suggests unequal societies polluted degraded environments perhaps helping explain unequal societies often less healthy summarize mechanisms inequality lead environmental degradation relevance public health review evidence relationship environmental quality social inequality along axes income wealth political power race ethnicity review suggests evidence strongest air waterquality measures immediate health implications evidence less strong dispersed pollutants longerterm health impacts attention paid research practice links among inequality environment health including withincountry studies may elucidate causal pathways points intervention synthesize common metrics inequality methodological considerations effort bring cohesion efforts