Environmental justice

IESR’s work on environmental justice, (which in recent years has attracted funding from the Environment Agency, the Scottish Executive, the Department for Communities and Local Government, and the European Commission) examines the relationships between environmental quality and social status.

Work has focused especially on links between social deprivation and a range of indicators of environmental quality, including contaminated land, polluting industry, flood hazard and air quality.

Environmental quality and social deprivation in England and Wales 2003

Investigating environmental justice in Scotland 2005

Addressing environmental inequalities series 2007

Air quality index for Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004 and 2007

Environmental justice in South Yorkshire 2008

Environmental justice in Europe 2008