PEIR Science

Publications and Links

Below are publications and links for research in areas of science related to PEIR.
Please note: The PDF links below are for personal use only and are subject to duplication and copyright restrictions, please see the publisher’s websites for more information.

Particulate Matter - Exposure:

California Air Resources Board (ARB) Link

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Link

American Academy of Pediatrics. 2004. Ambient Air Pollution: Health Hazards to Children. Pediatrics. December. 114(6) pp1699-1707 PDF

California Air Resources Board. 2007. On-Road Emission Model Methodology Documentation. August 10. PDF

Behrentz, E., D.R. Fitz, D.V. Pankratz, L.D. Sabin, S.D. Colome, S. Fruin and A.M. Winer. “Relative Importance of School Bus Commute-Related Microenvironments to Children’s Air Pollutant Exposure.” J. Air and Waste Management Association, 2005.

Byrd, R.S., J.P. Joad. 2006. Urban asthma. Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine. 12. pp68-74. PDF

Jerrett, M. et. al. 2005. Spatial Analysis of Air Pollution and Mortality in Los Angeles. Epidemiology. November. 16(6) pp727-736. PDF

Houston, D, Krudysz M, Winer A. (2008). Environmental Justice Implications of Diesel Truck Traffic in Port-Adjacent Communities. Accepted for publication in the Journal of the Transportation Research Board.

Houston D, Ong P, Wu J, Winer A. (2006). Proximity of Licensed Childcare to Near-RoadwayVehicle Pollution. American Journal of Public Health, 96(9), 1611-1617.

Houston D, Wu J, Ong P, Winer A. (2004). Structural Disparities of Urban Traffic in Southern California: Implications for Vehicle-Related Air Pollution Exposure in Minority and High-Poverty Neighborhoods. Journal of Urban Affairs, 25(5), 565-92.

Junk Food - Exposure:

Searching for Healthy Food? Public Health Advocacy Link

Hill, James O.; John C. Peters. 1998. Environmental Contributions to the Obesity Epidemic. Science, New Series, Vol. 280, No. 5368. (May 29, 1998), pp. 1371-1374. PDF

Morrill, Allison C.; Christopher D. Chinn. 2004. The Obesity Epidemic in the United States. Journal of Public Health Policy, Vol. 25, No. 3/4.,pp. 353-366. PDF

Sallis, James F.; Karen Glanz. 2006. The Role of Built Environments in Physical Activity, Eating, and Obesity in Childhood. The Future of Children, Vol. 16, No. 1, Childhood Obesity. (Spring, 2006), pp. 89-108. PDF

Wakefield, Julie. 2004. Fighting Obesity through the Built Environment. Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 112, No. 11. (Aug., 2004), pp. A616-A618. PDF

Particulate Matter - Impact:

American Academy of Pediatrics. 2004. Ambient Air Pollution: Health Hazards to Children. Pediatrics. December. 114(6) pp1699-1707 PDF

California Air Resources Board. 2007. On-Road Emission Model Methodology Documentation. August 10. PDF

Byrd, R.S., J.P. Joad. 2006. Urban asthma. Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine. 12. pp68-74. PDF

Jerrett, M. et. al. 2005. Spatial Analysis of Air Pollution and Mortality in Los Angeles. Epidemiology. November. 16(6) pp727-736. PDF

Carbon Footprint- Impact:

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Green House Gases and Climate Change Link

US Environmental Protection Agency. 2007. Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2005 (April 2007) USEPA #430-R-07-002. PDF

Ewing, R., R. Pendall, et al. 2002. Measuring Sprawl and Its Impact. Washington, DC, Smart
Growth America. PDF

Gillham, O. 2002. The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate. Washington, DC, Island Press. PDF

International Panel on Climate Change. 2007. Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, 996 pp. Link

Mobile Systems Research:

Abdelzaher ,T., et al. (2007). Mobiscopes for Human Spaces, Pervasive Computing , 2007

Gulliver, J. and D.J. Briggs. (2005) “Time-space modeling of journey-time exposure to traffic related air pollution using GIS”. Environmental Research 97: 10-25.

Hoh, B., Gruteser, M., Xiong, H., Alrabady, A. (2007). “Preserving Privacy in GPS Traces via Density-Aware Path Cloaking.”, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2007

Krumm, J.(2007). “Inference Attacks on Location Tracks”, Fifth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2007), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Liao, L., Fox, D., and Kautz, H. (2005). “Location-based Activity Recognition, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems”

Midden, C., F. G. Kaiser, L. T. McCalley. (2007) “Technology’s Four Roles in Understanding Individuals’ Conservation of Natural Resources”. J. of Social Issues 63(1): 155-174.

Chen, M., et al (2006), “Practical Metropolitan-Scale Positioning for GSM Phones”, In Proceedings of Eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Ubicomp 2006.