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20600
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4550
National Ranking
2160

Overview

Robert D. Bullard is affiliated with Texas Southern University in the United States. Their research contributions span a range of topics primarily within environmental justice, health disparities, and sustainability.

The scientist has authored several papers in recent years, including:

  • Pesticides and environmental injustice in the USA: root causes, current regulatory reinforcement and a path forward (2022) published in BMC Public Health
  • Roundtable on the Pandemics of Racism, Environmental Injustice, and COVID-19 in America (2020) featured in Environmental Justice
  • Scientists' warning on fossil fuels (2025) published in Oxford Open Climate Change
  • Call for Special Issue Papers: Hurricanes, Man-Made Disasters, and Environmental Injustice in the Gulf Coast (2020) in Environmental Justice
  • Index (2020) published by New York University Press eBooks

Frequent co-authors in their body of work include Nathan Donley, Beverly A. Wright, Jeannie Economos, Iris Figueroa, and Jovita Lee.

Publication venues that feature their work regularly are:

  • Environmental Justice
  • BMC Public Health
  • Oxford Open Climate Change
  • New York University Press eBooks
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Robert D. Bullard has also contributed to book literature, notably publishing Toxic Truths in 2020 through Winchester University Press.

The fields and subfields of study connected to their research encompass sociology and political science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, plant science, global and planetary change, and renewable energy, sustainability and the environment.

Main topics of their academic work include:

  • Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
  • Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts

Best Publications

  • Dumping In Dixie: Race, Class, And Environmental Quality

    Robert D. Bullard

  • Just Sustainabilities : Development in an Unequal World

    Julian Agyeman;Robert D. Bullard;Bob Evans

  • Unequal protection : environmental justice and communities of color

    Robert D. Bullard

  • Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality.

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  • Solid Waste Sites and the Black Houston Community

    Robert D. Bullard

  • Confronting environmental racism : voices from the grassroots

    Phil Brown;Robert Bullard

  • Environmentalism and Public Policy: Environmental Justice: Grassroots Activism and Its Impact on Public Policy Decision Making

    Robert D. Bullard;Glenn S. Johnson

  • The quest for environmental justice : human rights and the politics of pollution

    Robert D. Bullard

  • Environmental Justice: Grassroots Activism and Its Impact on Public Policy Decision Making

    Robert D. Bullard;Glenn S. Johnson

  • Exploring the Nexus: Bringing Together Sustainability, Environmental Justice and Equity

    Julian Agyeman;Robert D. Bullard;Bob Evans

  • Dumping in Dixie

    Robert D. Bullard

  • Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty: Why Race Still Matters after All of These Years

    Robert D. Bullard;Paul Mohai;Robin Saha;Beverly Wright

  • Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast

    Robert D Bullard;Beverly Wright

  • Sprawl city : race, politics, and planning in Atlanta

    Robert D. Bullard;Angel O. Torres;Glenn S. Johnson

  • Overcoming Racism in Environmental Decisionmaking

    Robert D. Bullard

  • Environmental justice : It's more than waste facility siting

    R. D. Bullard

  • Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Race Still Matters

    Robert D. Bullard

  • Just transportation : dismantling race and class barriers to mobility

    Robert D. Bullard;Glenn S. Johnson

  • Dismantling Environmental Racism in the USA

    Robert D. Bullard

  • Environmental Justice for all: Community Perspectives on Health and Research:

    Robert D. Bullard;Beverly H. Wright

  • Children's health and the environment: a new agenda for prevention research.

    P J Landrigan;J E Carlson;C F Bearer;J S Cranmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Manuel Pastor
Manuel Pastor University of Southern California
Frederica P. Perera
Frederica P. Perera Columbia University
Rachel Morello-Frosch
Rachel Morello-Frosch University of California, Berkeley
Xuemei Bai
Xuemei Bai Australian National University
Phil Brown
Phil Brown Northeastern University
Stephen B. Thomas
Stephen B. Thomas University of Maryland, College Park

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