Almost two years ago the Ecopsychology journal partnered with the 2021 Nature and Health conference to solicit original manuscripts for a special issue of the journal, edited by JPB Fellows Dr. Gregory N. Bratman and Dr. Hector A. Olvera Alvarez. The first issue was just published online [liebertpub.com] (free access until Oct 12, 2022). The second issue will appear December 2022. Read more.
Dr. Sara Wylie has received a prestigious fellowship
For the 2022-23 academic year, Associate Professor Sara Wylie and JPB E.H. from Cohort I will be serving as an Energy Justice Science, Technology and Policy Fellow in the new Office of Energy Justice Policy and Analysis at the Department of Energy. Dr. Wylie will be working on high-level strategies, policies, and research opportunities to execute the Justice40 Initiative across Department of Energy existing and new programs, particularly supporting 1) development of the environmental justice scores,…
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Dr. Tony G. Reames Honored with National Council on Electricity Policy Brinch Award for Collaboration in Public Service
JPB Fellow Dr. Tony G. Reames, deputy director for energy justice at the U.S. Department of Energy, was awarded the Jan Brinch Award for Collaboration in Public Service by the National Council on Electricity Policy at its Annual Meeting on September 22. Reames received the award in recognition of his widely influential research into the intersections of affordability, access to clean energy resources and related disparities across race, class and…
‘A Multitude of Risks and Hazards’
UMD Expert: Jackson Water Crisis Latest Example of Marginalized Communities Bearing Brunt of Neglected Infrastructure For 40 days, residents of Jackson, Miss., had to boil water to brush their teeth, cook dinner or bathe after the city’s largest treatment plant failed. Schools in the state capital had to steer children away from unusable toilets or fountains, people lined up for 12 million bottles of donated water, and some hospitals had…
Invited Perspective: What Do We Know about Fetal–Maternal Health and Health Care Needs after Wildfires? Not Nearly Enough
Although wildfires have always been a natural and necessary element of many ecosystems, they are becoming more frequent and more severe.1 This shift can be attributed to a combination of factors, including historical fire suppression, climate change, modifications to fuel loads across the landscape, and greater development at the wildlife–urban interface, which provides more opportunities for humans to ignite fires.2 Several studies show that exposure to wildfire smoke can increase premature…
New Article: Fisheries co-management in a digital age? An investigation of social media communications on the development of electronic monitoring for the Northeast US groundfish fishery
isheries regulators have increasingly incorporated video monitoring systems, also known as electronic monitoring, intoprograms for fisheries data collection and documentation of bycatch. Electronic monitoring has recently emerged as one potentialsolution for fisheries monitoring and catch accounting in the Northeast United States, where fisheries regulators will soon require all commercial groundfish trips to be monitored either by electronic monitoring or human observers. Fisheries managers, scientists, and industry stakeholders have cooperated to…
Community resilience to environmental hazards and climate change: can smart growth make a difference?
Over the last 20 years, principles of smart growth haven’t explicitly prioritized issues of community resilience in the context of climate change. Hence, literature exploring the integration of smart growth and community resilience, both mitigation and adaptation, is scant. In fact, early conceptualizations of smart growth did not even recognize resilience as a purported benefit or co-benefit. In this chapter, we explore the relationship between smart growth and climate change…
PODCAST: Public Willingness to Pay for Mosquito Control, Texas
JPB Fellow Dr. Katherine Dickinson, an assistant professor of environmental and occupational health in the Colorado School of Public Health, and Sarah Gregory discuss public willingness to pay for mosquito control in Texas. Learn more.
U-M releases national framework to measure energy equity
To bolster a just transition to cleaner, more resilient energy systems, the University of Michigan’s Energy Equity Project has released the first standardized national framework for comprehensively measuring and advancing energy equity. Energy equity recognizes the historical and cumulative burdens of the energy system borne by frontline and low-income communities. To eliminate these disparities, energy equity centers the voices of frontline communities in energy planning and decision making and ensures…
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Disparities in Who’s Getting Good Sleep for Black, Other Minority Communities
Sleep problems are common among Americans, but a growing body of research reveals glaring racial and ethnic disparities in sleep quality and quantity that have major health consequences. Compared with white Americans, people who are African American or Black, Hispanic or Latinx, American Indian, Native Alaskan, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander are more likely to have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, and getting deep, restorative sleep. These groups are also more…
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