Methodological Frontiers in Environmental Epidemiology
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Bourdieu does environmental justice? Probing the linkages between population health and air pollution epidemiology.
The environmental justice literature faces a number of conceptual and methodological shortcomings. The purpose of this paper is to probe ways in which these shortcomings can be remedied via recent developments in related literatures: population health and air pollution epidemiology. More sophisticated treatment of social structure, particularly if based on Pierre Bourdieu's relational approach ...
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