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This paper was originally published under a standard licence. This has now been amended to a CC BY licence in the PDF and HTML.
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Advocates for environmental justice, local, state, and national public health officials, exposure scientists, need broad-based health indices to identify vulnerable communities. Longitudinal studies show that ...
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Environmental risks are contested topics, and definitions of risk often vary across contexts, disciplines, and institutions. Identifying and describing differences between risk definitions is particularly impo...
