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Timothy W. Collins

Timothy W. Collins

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
45
Citations
6209
World Ranking
3955
National Ranking
1874

Overview

Timothy W. Collins is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change, Safety Research, and General Health Professions.

Collins' work addresses several major topics including Environmental Justice and Health Disparities, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Disaster Management and Resilience, Career Development and Diversity, Noise Effects and Management, and Urban Green Space and Health.

Frequent publication venues for Collins include:

  • Environmental Research
  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • CBE-Life Sciences Education
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • Applied Geography

Their recent papers comprise:

  • Mass Testing for SARS-CoV-2 in 16 Prisons and Jails - Six Jurisdictions, United States, April-May 2020 (2020), published in MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
  • Disparities in Health Effects and Access to Health Care Among Houston Area Residents After Hurricane Harvey (2020), published in Public Health Reports
  • Redlining, racism and food access in US urban cores (2022), published in Agriculture and Human Values
  • Social disparities in neighborhood heat in the Northeast United States (2021), published in Environmental Research
  • Light pollution inequities in the continental United States: A distributive environmental justice analysis (2020), published in Environmental Research

Among frequent collaborators are Sara E. Grineski, Danielle X. Morales, Aaron B. Flores, Casey Mullen, and Jayajit Chakraborty.

Best Publications

  • The political ecology of hazard vulnerability: marginalization, facilitation and the production of differential risk to urban wildfires in Arizona's White Mountains

    Timothy W. Collins

  • The geography of despair: Environmental racism the the making of South Phoenix, Arizona, USA

    Bob Bolin;Sara Grineski;Timothy Collins

  • Marginalization, Facilitation, and the Production of Unequal Risk: The 2006 Paso del Norte Floods

    Timothy W. Collins

  • Social and spatial inequities in exposure to flood risk in Miami, Florida

    Jayajit Chakraborty;Timothy W. Collins;Marilyn C. Montgomery;Sara E. Grineski

  • Exploring the Environmental Justice Implications of Hurricane Harvey Flooding in Greater Houston, Texas.

    Jayajit Chakraborty;Timothy W. Collins;Sara E. Grineski

  • What Influences Hazard Mitigation? Household Decision Making About Wildfire Risks in Arizona's White Mountains∗

    Timothy W. Collins

  • Households, forests, and fire hazard vulnerability in the American West: A case study of a California community

    Timothy W. Collins

  • The production of unequal risk in hazardscapes: An explanatory frame applied to disaster at the US–Mexico border

    Timothy W. Collins

  • Environmental injustice and flood risk: a conceptual model and case comparison of metropolitan Miami and Houston, USA

    Timothy W. Collins;Sara E. Grineski;Jayajit Chakraborty

  • Vulnerability to environmental hazards in the Ciudad Juárez (Mexico)–El Paso (USA) metropolis: A model for spatial risk assessment in transnational context

    Timothy W. Collins;Sara E. Grineski;María de Lourdes Romo Aguilar

  • Understanding environmental health inequalities through comparative intracategorical analysis: racial/ethnic disparities in cancer risks from air toxics in El Paso County, Texas.

    Timothy W. Collins;Sara E. Grineski;Jayajit Chakraborty;Yolanda J. McDonald

  • Environmental injustice and Hurricane Harvey: A household-level study of socially disparate flood exposures in Greater Houston, Texas, USA.

    Timothy W. Collins;Sara E. Grineski;Jayajit Chakraborty;Aaron B. Flores

  • Geographic and social disparities in exposure to air neurotoxicants at U.S. public schools

    Sara E. Grineski;Timothy W. Collins

  • Exploring patterns of environmental injustice in the Global South: Maquiladoras in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

    Sara E. Grineski;Timothy W. Collins

  • Downscaling Environmental Justice Analysis: Determinants of Household-Level Hazardous Air Pollutant Exposure in Greater Houston

    Timothy W. Collins;Sara E. Grineski;Jayajit Chakraborty;Marilyn C. Montgomery

  • Faculty Motivation to Mentor Students Through Undergraduate Research Programs: A Study of Enabling and Constraining Factors

    Danielle X. Morales;Sara E. Grineski;Timothy W. Collins

  • Asian Americans and disproportionate exposure to carcinogenic hazardous air pollutants: A national study.

    Sara E. Grineski;Timothy W. Collins;Danielle X. Morales

  • Redlining, racism and food access in US urban cores

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  • Environmental Injustice and Sexual Minority Health Disparities: A National Study of Inequitable Health Risks from Air Pollution among Same-Sex Partners

    Timothy W. Collins;Sara E. Grineski;Danielle X. Morales

  • Situating Hazard Vulnerability: People’s Negotiations with Wildfire Environments in the U.S. Southwest

    Timothy W. Collins;Bob Bolin

  • Comparing Disproportionate Exposure to Acute and Chronic Pollution Risks: A Case Study in Houston, Texas

    Jayajit Chakraborty;Timothy W. Collins;Sara E. Grineski;Marilyn C. Montgomery

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon
Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon University of Utah
Yehua Dennis Wei
Yehua Dennis Wei University of Utah

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