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Journal Papers
Addressing Environmental Inequalities Project (2005-7)
Environmental Quality and Social Deprivation Project (2002-3)
Environmental Justice in Scotland Project (2004-5)
Environmental Justice Impact Assessment and Policy Appraisal Project (2004)
Environment, Health and Social Justice-Rapid Research Evidence Review (2004)
Other Publications on Environmental Justice (1998 onwards)

Journal Papers

Walker G (2007) Environmental justice and the distributional deficit in policy appraisal in the UK, Environmental Research Letters, 2, 045004

Walker, Gordon P and Bulkeley, Harriet (2006) Geographies of Environmental Justice. Geoforum, 37 (5). pp. 655-659.
[Editorial for special issue on Geographies of Environmental Justice]

Walker G P, Mitchell G, Fairburn J and Smith G (2005) Industrial pollution and social deprivation: evidence and complexity in evaluating and responding to environmental inequality, Local Environment, Vol 10, no 4, pp 361-377

Bulkeley, Harriet and Walker, Gordon P (2005) Environmental Justice: A New Agenda for the UK. Local Environment, 10 (4). pp. 329-332. [Editorial for special issue on Environmental Justice in the UK]

Addressing Environmental Inequalities Project (2005-7)

Gordon Walker, Kate Burningham, Jane Fielding, Graham Smith, Diana Thrush and Helen Fay (2006) Addressing Environmental Inequalities: Flood Risk, Science Report: SC020061/SR1, Environment Agency, Bristol.

Carolyn Stephens, Ruth Willis and Gordon Walker (2007) Addressing Environmental Inequalities: Cumulative Environmental Impacts, Science Report: SC020061/SR4, Environment Agency, Bristol.

Sarah Damery, Gordon Walker, Judith Petts and Graham Smith (2007) Addressing Environmental Inequalities: Water Quality, Science Report: SC020061/SR2, Environment Agency, Bristol.

Sarah Damery, Judith Petts, Gordon Walker, Graham Smith (2007) Addressing Environmental Inequalities: Waste Management, Science Report SC020061/SR3, Environment Agency, Bristol.

Gordon Walker, Sarah Damery, Judith Petts, Graham Smith (2007) Addressing Environmental Inequalities: Flood Risk, Waste Management and Water Quality in Wales, Science Report SC020061/SR5, Environment Agency, Bristol.

Environmental Quality and Social Deprivation Project (2002-3)

There are four versions of the outputs of this project available below. A brief two page summary, an integrated technical report which summarises key findings and two full reports which contain a full detailed account of the research undertaken. Further downloads also include press coverage and pieces for the professional press.

Deprived communities experience disproportionate levels of environmental threat, R&D Technical Summary E2-064/1/TS
Gordon Walker, Jon Fairburn, Graham Smith, Dr Gordon Mitchell, Environment Agency, 2003

Environmental quality and social deprivation, R&D Technical Report E2-067/1/TR
Gordon Walker, Jon Fairburn, Graham Smith, Dr Gordon Mitchell, Environment Agency, 2003

Environmental Quality and Social Deprivation Phase I: A Review of Research and Analytical Methods, R&D Full Project Report
Gordon Mitchell and Gordon Walker, Environment Agency, 2003

Environmental Quality and Social Deprivation Phase II: National Analysis of Flood Hazard, IPC Industries and Air Quality, R&D Full Project Report
Gordon Walker, John Fairburn, Graham Smith, Gordon Mitchell, Environment Agency, 2003

Guardian Society: Escape from Pollutionville
Press coverage of the project outputs

Walker, G. and Chalmers, H. (2004) Delivering a Better Environment. Sustain. Volume 05 Issue 03

Environmental Justice in Scotland Project (2004-5)

Executive Summary of project findings, Scottish and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research, 2005

Fairburn J, Walker G and Smith G (2005) Investigating Environmental Justice in Scotland - Links Between Measures of Environmental Quality and Social Deprivation Report UE4(03)01, Scottish and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research, Edinburgh. FULL REPORT

Environmental Justice Impact Assessment and Policy Appraisal Project (2004)

Walker, G., Fay, H., and Mitchell, G. (2004) Environmental Justice Impact Assessment: An evaluation of requirements and tools for distributional analysis. Report for Friends of the Earth.

Environment, Health and Social Justice-Rapid Research Evidence Review (2004)

Environment and Social Justice Briefing (8-page summary)

Final Report: Lucas, K., Walker, G., Eames, M. Fay, H. and Passtie, M. (2004) Environmental, Health and Social Justice Review. Report for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Other Publications on Environmental Justice (1998 onwards)

Environmental justice and the politics of risk
Gordon Walker (1998)
Town and Country Planning, 67, 11, 358-359

Who bears environmental risk?: the challenges of the environmental equality agenda
Gordon Walker (2003)
Hazard Forum Synopsis

Ethnicity and risk: the characteristics of populations in census wards containing major accident hazards in England and Wales
Gordon Walker, John Fairburn and Karen Bickerstaff 2001
Occasional Papers, Series A: Geographical Research, Department of Geography, Staffordshire University.

Polluting the poor: an environmental justice agenda for the UK?
Gordon Walker and Karen Bickerstaff (2000)
Critical Urban Studies: Occasional Papers, Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

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