Environmental Justice & Structural Equity Analytics Team
Analyzing the structural inequities that concentrate environmental burdens on marginalized communities and developing remedies.
Unit Mission
The Environmental Justice & Structural Equity Analytics Team investigates the structural factors that cause environmental burdens — pollution, contamination, and environmental hazards — to be disproportionately concentrated in low-income, minority, and indigenous communities. The team applies spatial analysis, epidemiology, and social science to document environmental injustice, identify its structural drivers, and develop policy recommendations and community-centered interventions that advance equitable environmental protection.
Key Functions
Burden Mapping
Mapping the spatial distribution of environmental burdens and community vulnerability — identifying cumulative impact hotspots where multiple pollution sources, hazards, and social vulnerabilities converge to create disproportionate environmental injustice.
Disparity Analysis
Analyzing health and environmental disparities between communities — documenting the differential exposure and health outcomes experienced by marginalized communities and identifying the regulatory and enforcement failures that perpetuate inequity.
Policy Advocacy
Developing policy recommendations that advance environmental justice — advocating for equitable enforcement, cumulative impact consideration in permitting, and community benefit agreements that address the structural drivers of environmental inequity.
Operational Capabilities
Environmental, Conservation & Diplomacy Directorate
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Pacific 7.0 International recruits scientists, diplomats, field conservationists, and policy researchers committed to protecting the planet and advancing global environmental security.