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T1 - Ten questions concerning the future of residential indoor air quality and its environmental justice implications
AU - Booker, D.
AU - Petrou, G.
AU - Chatzidiakou, L.
AU - Das, D.
AU - Farooq, F.
AU - Ferguson, L.
AU - Jutila, OE.I.
AU - Milczewska, K.
AU - Modlich, M.
AU - Rangel, A. Moreno
AU - Thakrar, S.K.
AU - Yeoman, A.M.
AU - Davies, M.
AU - Mead, M.I.
AU - Miller, M.R.
AU - Wild, O.
AU - Shi, Zongbo
AU - Mavrogianni, A.
AU - Doherty, R. M.
PY - 2025/4/17
Y1 - 2025/4/17
N2 - Humans spend a large proportion of their time at home, where exposure to poor indoor air quality has detrimental – and often inequitably distributed – impacts on health and wellbeing. Unprecedented changes to residential indoor environments are expected in the coming decades, especially in order to meet net zero energy and greenhouse gas emissions targets. However, it is unclear how these changes will affect indoor air quality, and to what extent they will differentially impact different social groups. In this paper, we pose and address ten questions concerning the future of residential indoor air quality and its environmental justice implications. We pay attention to environmental justice in relation to indoor air quality, including distributive, procedural, recognition, capabilities, and epistemic dimensions. The ten questions specifically address: social gradients in health and exposure, and how changes in climate, policies, behaviours, technologies, populations, and demographics might affect residential indoor air quality and environmental justice. We also highlight the role that transdisciplinary research can play in improving residential indoor air quality in a more environmentally just way.
AB - Humans spend a large proportion of their time at home, where exposure to poor indoor air quality has detrimental – and often inequitably distributed – impacts on health and wellbeing. Unprecedented changes to residential indoor environments are expected in the coming decades, especially in order to meet net zero energy and greenhouse gas emissions targets. However, it is unclear how these changes will affect indoor air quality, and to what extent they will differentially impact different social groups. In this paper, we pose and address ten questions concerning the future of residential indoor air quality and its environmental justice implications. We pay attention to environmental justice in relation to indoor air quality, including distributive, procedural, recognition, capabilities, and epistemic dimensions. The ten questions specifically address: social gradients in health and exposure, and how changes in climate, policies, behaviours, technologies, populations, and demographics might affect residential indoor air quality and environmental justice. We also highlight the role that transdisciplinary research can play in improving residential indoor air quality in a more environmentally just way.
KW - Indoor air quality
KW - Environmental justice
KW - Housing
KW - Residential
KW - Inequality
KW - Climate change
U2 - 10.1016/j.buildenv.2025.112957
DO - 10.1016/j.buildenv.2025.112957
M3 - Journal article
VL - 278
JO - Building and Environment
JF - Building and Environment
SN - 0360-1323
M1 - 112957
ER -