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Measuring historical pollution: natural history collections as tools for public health and environmental justice research

2023-07-03

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<h4>Background: </h4> Through the industrial era, environmental pollution has been unevenly distributed in the environment, disproportionately impacting disenfranchised communities. The distribution of pollution is thus a question of environmental justice and public health that requires policy solutions. However, we lack robust quantitative data on pollutants for many locations and time periods because environment...

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Literature Corpus work: 8fc399b1-40a0-5585-99b6-114cf222a958
DOI: 10.32942/x25p5z

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