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Unveiling air pollution-related health inequality in China’s food system

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dc.contributor.author Zheng, Lianming
dc.contributor.author Adalibieke, Wulahati
dc.contributor.author Zhou, Feng
dc.contributor.author He, Pan
dc.contributor.author Chen, Yilin
dc.contributor.author Guo, Peng
dc.contributor.author He, Jinling
dc.contributor.author Zhang, Yuanzheng
dc.contributor.author Xu, Peng
dc.contributor.author Wang, Chen
dc.contributor.author Ye, Jianhuai
dc.contributor.author Zhu, Lei
dc.contributor.author Shen, Guofeng
dc.contributor.author Fu, Tzung-May
dc.contributor.author Yang, Xin
dc.contributor.author Zhao, Shunliu
dc.contributor.author Hakami, Amir
dc.contributor.author Russell, Armistead G.
dc.contributor.author Tao, Shu
dc.contributor.author Meng, Jing
dc.contributor.author Shen, Huizhong
dc.contributor.corporatename School of Environmental Science and Engineering. Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
dc.contributor.corporatename Institute of Carbon Neutrality. Peking University, Beijing, China
dc.contributor.corporatename College of Urban and Environmental Sciences. Peking University, Beijing, China
dc.contributor.corporatename School of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Cardiff University, U.K.
dc.contributor.corporatename School of Urban Planning and Design. Peking University, Beijing, China
dc.contributor.corporatename Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Carleton University, Ottawa
dc.contributor.corporatename The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction. University College London
dc.date.accessioned 2024-02-19T13:51:42Z
dc.date.available 2024-02-19T13:51:42Z
dc.date.issued 2024-03
dc.description To be published in Nature Food. This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections.
dc.description.abstract Food consumption contributes to the degradation of air quality in regions where food is produced, giving rise to an often-neglected form of environmental inequality, i.e., the contrast between the environmental health burden caused by the food consumption of a specific population and that they encounter as a consequence of food production activities. Herein, we explore this inequality within China’s food system, by linking air pollution–related health burden from the production side to the consumption side at high levels of spatial and sectorial granularity. Our findings reveal that low-income groups bear a 70% higher air pollution-related health burden from the food production than is caused by their food consumption, while high-income groups benefit from a 29% lower health burden relative to their food consumption. This discrepancy can be primarily attributed to the significant concentration of the low-income population residing in food production areas, thereby exposing them to higher emissions from agricultural activities. Our study indicates that comprehensive interventions targeting both production and consumption sides can effectively reduce health damages and concurrently mitigate associated inequalities, while singular interventions exhibit limited efficacy. This emphasizes the need for a combination of measures to establish a sustainable and equitable food system.
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/1853/73595
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.rights Unless otherwise noted, all materials are protected under U.S. Copyright Law and all rights are reserved
dc.rights.metadata https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
dc.rights.uri https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en
dc.subject Air Pollution
dc.subject Inequity
dc.subject Environmental Justice
dc.subject Food systems
dc.title Unveiling air pollution-related health inequality in China’s food system
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Post-print
dspace.entity.type Publication
local.contributor.corporatename School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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