Research Guides: Environmental Justice: Find websites and more

Mapping tools

The following tools allow you to view environmental and demographic indicators.

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Use Social Explorer to visualize and interact with data, create maps, charts, reports and downloads. Explore hundreds of thousands of built-in data indicators related to demography, economy, health, politics, environment, crime and more. Social Explorer is designed to provide quick and easy access to historical census data and demographic information from 1790 to the present.

EJSCREEN
EPAs environmental justice mapping and screening tool that combines environmental and demographic indicators.
Energy Democracy for All
From the Center for Social Inclusion; pinpoints communities across America that are developing community-scale renewable energy projects.
Energy Justice Network
Existing, proposed, closed and defeated dirty energy and waste facilities in the United States.
Eco-Health Relationship Browser
EJAtlas - Global Atlas of Environmental Justice
"The environmental justice atlas documents and catalogues social conflict around environmental issues."

Websites

Environmental Justice at the EPA
The EPA's site on environmental justice
Envirofacts
EPA data system - Topic searches in particular may be useful
ECOTAX Knowledgebase
"The ECOTOXicology knowledgebase (ECOTOX) is a comprehensive, publicly available knowledgebase providing single chemical environmental toxicity data on aquatic life, terrestrial plants and wildlife."
CDC National Center for Environmental Health Data Resources
"One-Stop Shop for Environmental Public Health Data"
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This Web site provides a reference list of nationally funded data systems that have a relationship to environmental public health. This list is not meant to be a comprehensive inventory. Rather, it highlights the major data systems with a national scope where public health and environmental data can be directly downloaded from the Internet."
Environmental Data Explorer-UNEP
"The Environmental Data Explorer is the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments."
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Its online database holds more than 500 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Display them on-the-fly as maps, graphs, data tables or download the data in different formats."
Environmental Justice Government Information
Guide on environmental justice government information (as well as some NGOs) from the University of Illinois Information School
EnviroAtlas
The EPA's "EnviroAtlas provides geospatial data, easy-to-use tools, and other resources related to ecosystem services, their chemical and non-chemical stressors, and human health."
NIH National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences
"The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is expanding and accelerating its contributions to scientific knowledge of human health and the environment, and to the health and well-being of people everywhere."
US Climate Resilience Toolkit
"Meet the Challenges of a Changing Climate
Find information and tools to help you understand and address your climate risks."
Which Cities Have Concrete Strategies for Environmental Justice?
"Historically, local zoning codes and land-use laws have enforced segregation. Now, cities are using the same tools to enact environmental justice." - Citylab article by Nicole Javorsky
Annual Environmental Justice Progress Reports
Progress Reports from the US EPA's Office of Environmental Justice
Superfund
The EPA's Superfund site
Substane Registry Services
EPA's databases of tracked substances
UNEP Publications and Data
UN Environmental Programme's publications and data, filterable by country

Environmental Justice

Mapping tools

Websites

Location-specific Data and Resources