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PUBLICATION LIST (2018 - Current)

Note: Graduate student authors are underlined, undergraduates are marked with *

  • Cheung, E., Wen M., Wei D, Grineski SE, Curtis D. 2026. Spatial social polarization and cardiometabolic disease prevalence and incidence: What is the role of the neighborhood environment? Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 67(1)
  • de Lacy, N., W. Lam, T. Collins, D. Danks, F. Wilson, K. Smith, and B. Pescosolido. 2026. A century of suicide: Insights from long-term data in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123(18):e2519951123. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2519951123.
  • Scott, M.,Clark A., Bandyopadhyay A., Brazil J., Brosius L., Owusu RO, Lee Walker, S., Adkins DE, Grineski SE.  2026. Geographic and Social Inequalities in Public School Proximity to Active Landfills in the U.S. Environmental Sociology. 12(3), 555-668.
  • Grineski SE, Araos, M., Collins TW. 2026. Concerns about the drying Great Salt Lake: What do people care about and who cares the most? Environment and Behavior. 58(8)
  • Grineski, SE, Renteria RA, Bakian A, Collins TW, VanDerslice J, *Alexander CJ, Bilder D. 2026. "Prenatal ozone exposure and risk of intellectual disability." Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, 36, 14-21.
  • Renteria, R. Grineski SE, *Gomez J., Bilder, D., Collins TW, Bakian AV. 2026. Associations between prenatal PM2.5 exposures and intellectual disability: Are there differential impacts based on co-occurrence of autism spectrum disorder? Environmental Research. 289, 123378
  • Araos, M., Collins TW, Clark A, *Lopez N., *Obayashi S., Stephens G, Grineski SE. 2026. Misrecognition or Heightened Awareness? The Role Local Context in Perceptions of Environmental Inequality Across Social Groups. Social Problems.

  • Grineski, SE, Renteria, RA, Collins, TW, Bakian, AV, Bilder, D, Fraser, A, *Gomez, J, *Ramos, KD. 2024. PM2·5 threshold exceedances during the prenatal period and risk of intellectual disability. Journal of Exposure Sciences and Environmental Epidemiology. 34: 861-867.
  • Clark, A, Grineski SE, Curtis, DS, Cheung E. 2024. Identifying groups at-risk to extreme heat: Intersections of age, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Environment International. 191: 108988
  • Grineski, SE, Mallia, D., Collins, T, Araos, M, Lin, J, Anderegg W, Perry, K. 2024. Harmful dust from drying lakes: Preserving Great Salt Lake (USA) water levels decreases ambient dust and racial disparities in population exposure. One Earth, 7(6): 1056-1067
  • Grineski, SE, Morales DX, Collins TW, Nadybal S, *Trego S. 2024. Anxiety and depression among US college students engaging in undergraduate research during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Journal of American College Health. 72(1): 20-30.
  • Grineski, SE, *Griego, A., Mullen C, Collins TW, Nadybal S, *Mangadu A. 2024. Environmental Injustice, Tree Canopy Cover, and Academic Proficiency at Utah Public Primary Schools. Environmental Justice. 17(1):https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2021.0113
  • Rigolon, A., T. Collins, J. Kim, M. Stuhlmacher, and J. Christensen. 2024. Does gentrification precede and follow greening? Evidence about the green gentrification cycle in Los Angeles and Chicago. Landscape and Urban Planning 248:105095. DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105095.
  • Riyadh, A., T. Cova, S. Brewer, T. Collins, R. Medina, L. Siebeneck, and A. Hohl. 2024. Spatial analysis of disaster resilience research: A bibliometric study. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 113:104896. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104896.
  • Allain, M., A. Rigolon, T. Collins, D. Rademacher, and J. Christensen. 2026. How to prioritize park equity investments more efficiently: Introducing the PerSquareMile tool. Applied Geography 191:104020. DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.104020.

 

2025

  • Shaker, Y., Collins TW, Grineski SE, Goel A. 2025. Contextualizing food apartheid through racial capitalism analysis: The case of Utah’s Wasatch Front, USA. Journal of Race, Ethnicity & the City. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26884674.2025.2573924
  • Mullen, C., Grineski SE, *Hererra M, *Christian LP, *Cuello J. 2025. "“You Feel Empowered”: Parents’ Emotional Responses to Air Pollution Sensing at Home. Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
  • Chakraborty, J., T. Collins, and S. Grineski. 2025. Using a spatial statistical approach to assess cumulative environmental burdens for public housing developments in the U.S. Environmental Justice. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/19394071251365422
  • Mullen, C., Grineski SE, *Hererra M, *Christian LP, *Cuello J. 2025. “If You Had a Sensor, You Would Know": Unequal Exposures and Behavioral Responses to Indoor Air Pollution. Society and Natural Resources. 38 (12): 1444–1462
  • Allain, M, Collins, TW, Grineski SE, Rigolon, A. 2025. Park inequities between and within racial/ethnic groups in the conterminous United States: A micro-scale, individual-level analysis Urban Forestry and Urban Greening. 113, 129031
  • Curtis, D., Meeks HD, Smith KR, Kole K, Brown BB, Grineski SE, Clark A, Kowaleski-Jones L. 2025. Local environmental attributes and type 2 diabetes: Green amenities, walkability indicators, and air pollution predict incidence. Environmental Research. 205,109870
  • Rubio, R., Grineski SE, Collins TW. 2025. Intersectionality of water insecurity on the US-Mexico border: A novel micro-level analysis. Population & Environment. 47(36): doi.org/10.1007/s11111-025-00507-5
  • Collins, T.W., *Child, C.M., Grineski, S.E. and Scott, M., 2025. Disparities in Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollution Exposures at the US–Mexico Border: The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity and Older Age. Atmosphere, 16(5), p. 610.
  • Scott, M. Grineski SE, Collins TW, Adkins DE.  2025. Climate Gaps: Disparities in residential air conditioning access across ten US metropolitan areas. Applied Geography. 176: 103537
  • Flores, AB., Collins, TW, Grineski, SE, Amodeo M, Porter J, Sampson C, Wing O. 2025 Federally-Overlooked Flood Risk Inequities in the Conterminous United States. Scientific Advances. 15: 10678
  • Rubio, R., S. Grineski, and T. Collins. 2025. Micro-level inequalities in plumbing completeness along the US–Mexico borderlands. Nature Water. 3: 793–805.
  • Grineski, S., *K. Ramos, R. Renteria, T. Collins, J. VanDerslice, D. Bilder, and A. Bakian. 2025.  Multigenerational exposures to polluting industries and developmental disabilities. Science of the Total Environment. 989(10): 179888
  • Grineski SE, Cheung, ESL, Clark, A., Curtis, DS. 2025. Fine particulate matter is associated with executive functioning decline in middle-aged and older adults: Cardiometabolic disease as a mediator. Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences. 80(7): glaf104
  • Collins, TW, Allain, M, Grineski, SE, Rigolon, AJ.2025. Comparing methods for measuring park access and equity using US Census microdata in Metropolitan Miami. Applied Geography. 178, 103579
  • Collins, TW, Grineski SE. 2025. Race, historical redlining, and contemporary transportation noise disparities in the United States. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology 35: 50-61.
  • Clark, A. Collins, TW, Grineski, SE., Brewer, S and Flores, AB. 2025. Comparative assessment of residential property values at risk to flooding: The case of Utah, USA Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 118(15): 105247
  • Clark, A. and T. Collins. 2025. Comparative assessment of flood risk to critical infrastructure: The case of Utah, USA. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 128:105745. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105745.
  • Rigolon, A., M. Stuhlmacher, J. Christensen, T. Collins, and J. Kim. 2025. Different pathways to greening in gentrifying communities: Power, transformative projects, and the green gentrification cycle. Cities 166:106268. DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106268.

  • Grineski, SE, Renteria, RA, Collins, TW, Bakian, AV, Bilder, D, Fraser, A, *Gomez, J, *Ramos, KD. 2024. PM2·5 threshold exceedances during the prenatal period and risk of intellectual disability. Journal of Exposure Sciences and Environmental Epidemiology. 34: 861-867.
  • Clark, A, Grineski SE, Curtis, DS, Cheung E. 2024. Identifying groups at-risk to extreme heat: Intersections of age, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Environment International. 191: 108988
  • Grineski, SE, Mallia, D., Collins, T, Araos, M, Lin, J, Anderegg W, Perry, K. 2024. Harmful dust from drying lakes: Preserving Great Salt Lake (USA) water levels decreases ambient dust and racial disparities in population exposure. One Earth, 7(6): 1056-1067
  • Grineski, SE, Morales DX, Collins TW, Nadybal S, *Trego S. 2024. Anxiety and depression among US college students engaging in undergraduate research during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Journal of American College Health. 72(1): 20-30.
  • Grineski, SE, *Griego, A., Mullen C, Collins TW, Nadybal S, *Mangadu A. 2024. Environmental Injustice, Tree Canopy Cover, and Academic Proficiency at Utah Public Primary Schools. Environmental Justice. 17(1):https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2021.0113
  • Rigolon, A., T. Collins, J. Kim, M. Stuhlmacher, and J. Christensen. 2024. Does gentrification precede and follow greening? Evidence about the green gentrification cycle in Los Angeles and Chicago. Landscape and Urban Planning 248:105095. DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105095.
  • Riyadh, A., T. Cova, S. Brewer, T. Collins, R. Medina, L. Siebeneck, and A. Hohl. 2024. Spatial analysis of disaster resilience research: A bibliometric study. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 113:104896. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104896.
  • Allain, M., A. Rigolon, T. Collins, D. Rademacher, and J. Christensen. 2026. How to prioritize park equity investments more efficiently: Introducing the PerSquareMile tool. Applied Geography 191:104020. DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.104020.

  • Mullen, CJ, Grineski, SE, Collins, TW, Flores, AB. 2023. Air Quality Sensors and Distributional Environmental Justice: A Case Study of Salt Lake County, Utah. Environmental Sociology. 10(2): 179-191.
  • Grineski, SE, *Alexander, C., Allain, M., Clark, A. Collins, T., Goodwin, E., Mullen, C., Scott, M., Shaker, Y., *Ramos, K.D., Renteria, R., Rubio, R. 2023 Environmental influences on academic proficiency. Current Epidemiology Reports. 11: 1-19
  • Anderegg, WL, Collins TW, Grineski SE, Nicholls S, and Nolte, C. 2023. Climate change greatly escalates forest disturbance risks to US property values. Environmental Research Letters. 18, 094011
  • Chakraborty, J., Collins, TW, Grineski, SE. 2023. Disability and Subsidized Housing Residency: The Adverse Impacts of Winter Storm Uri in Metropolitan Texas. Disability and Health Journal. 16(2): 101403
  • Grineski, SE., Scott, M., Collins, T., Chakraborty, J., *Ramos, K.D. 2023. Anxiety and Depression after Winter Storm Uri: Cascading Disasters and Mental Health Inequities. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 96, 103933
  • Shaker Y, Grineski SE Collins, T Flores, AB. 2023. Redlining, Racism and Food Access in US Urban Cores. Agriculture and Human Values. 40: 101–112
  • Flores, AB, Collins TW, Grineski SE, Amodeo M, Porter J, Sampson C, Wing O. 2023. Federally-overlooked flood risk inequities in Houston, Texas: Novel insights based on dasymetric mapping and state-of-the-art flood modeling. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 113(1): 240-260
  • Grineski, SE. Collins, TW., Chakraborty, J., Goodwin, E.,Aun, J.J., *Ramos, K. 2023. Social disparities in the duration of power and piped water outages in Texas after Winter Storm Uri. American Journal of Public Health. 113(1): 30-34.
  • Rigolon, A., and T. Collins. 2023. Critical commentary: The green gentrification cycle. Urban Studies 60(4):770-785.
  • Rashidi Shikhteymour, S., M. Borji, M. Bagheri Gavkosh, E. Azimi, and T. Collins. 2023. A novel framework for assessing flood risk using artificial intelligence and multi-criteria decision making methods‏. Applied Geography 158:103035.
  • Riyadh, A., T. Cova, T. Collins, and R. Medina. 2023. Comparing GIS-based flood resilience models in a developing nation: A case study in Bangladesh. Natural Hazards Review 24(4):05023011.

  •  Medina, R. M., Brewer, S., Linke, A. M., Nicolosi, E. A., Allain, M., & Tharp, D. (2022). The sociospatial ecology of deaths during police interactions in the United States, 2016–2020. Political Geography, 98, 102710.
  • Shaker, Y., Grineski, S. E., Collins, T. W., & Flores, A. B. (2022). Redlining, racism and food access in US urban cores. Agriculture and Human Values, 1-12.
  • Renteria, R., Grineski, S., Collins, T., Flores, A., & Trego, S. (2022). Social disparities in neighborhood heat in the Northeast United States. Environmental research, 203, 111805.
  • Flores, A.B. (2022). Book Review—Flood Risk Management Global Case Studies of Governance, Policy, and Communities. Water Economics and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1142/S2382624X21800047

  • Grineski, S., Collins, T., Renteria, R., & Rubio, R. (2021). Multigenerational Immigrant Trajectories and Children’s Unequal Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter in the US. Social Science & Medicine, 114108.
  • Rubio, R., Grineski, S., & Collins, T. (2021). Children’s exposure to vehicular air pollution in the United States: environmental injustices at the intersection of race/ethnicity and language. Environmental Sociology, 1-13.

  • Flores, A., Collins, T., Grineski, S., Griego, A., Mullen, C., Nadybal, S., Renteria, R., Rubio, R., Shaker, Y., Trego, S. (2020). Environmental Injustice in the Disaster Cycle: Hurricane Harvey and the Texas Gulf Coast. Environmental Justice,doi pending.

  • Flores, A., Castor, A., Grineski, S., Collins, T., Mullen, C. (2020). Petrochemical releases disproportionately affected socially vulnerable populations along the Texas Gulf Coast after Hurricane Harvey. Population and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-020-00362

  • Mullen, C., Grineski, S.E., Collins, T.W. and D.L. Mendoza. 2020. "Effects of PM2.5 on Third Grade Students' Proficiency in Math and English Language Arts." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(6931): 1-21.

  • Nadybal, S. M., Collins, T. W., & Grineski, S. E. (2020). Light pollution inequities in the continental United States: A distributive environmental justice analysis. Environmental Research, 109959.

  • Flores, A.B., Collins, T.W., Grineski, S.E., & Chakraborty, J. (2020). Disparities in Health Impacts and Access to Healthcare among Houston Area Residents after Hurricane Harvey. Public Health Reports. doi:10.1177/0033354920930133
  • Mullen, C., Grineski, S., Collins, T., Xing, W., Whitaker, R., Sayahi, T., Becnel, T., Goffin, P., Gaillardon, P.-E., M. Meyer and K. Kelly. “Patterns of distributive environmental inequity under different PM2.5 air pollution scenarios for Salt Lake County public schools”. Environmental Research 186: 1-10. doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.109543 
  • Nadybal, S., Grineski, S., Collins, T., Castor, A., Flores, A., Griego, A., ... & Rubio, R. (2020). Environmental Justice in the US and Beyond: Frameworks, Evidence, and Social Action. In Geographies of Behavioural Health, Crime, and Disorder (pp. 187-209). Springer, Cham.
  • Rubio, R., Grineski, S., Collins, T., & Morales, D. X. (2020). Ancestry-Based Intracategorical Injustices in Carcinogenic Air Pollution Exposures in the United States. Society & Natural Resources, 1-19.
  • Flores, Aaron B., Collins, Timothy W., Grineski, Sara E., and Chakraborty, Jayajit. (2020). Social vulnerability to Hurricane Harvey: Unmet needs and adverse event experiences in Greater Houston, Texas. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 46, 101521. doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101521.  
  • Collins, T. W., Nadybal, S., & Grineski, S. E. (2020). Sonic injustice: Disparate residential exposures to transport noise from road and aviation sources in the continental United States. Journal of Transport Geography, 82, 102604.
  • Grineski, S.E., Flores, AB., Collins, T.W., Chakraborty, J. 2020. The impact of Hurricane Harvey on Greater Houston Households: Comparing pre-event preparedness with post-event health effects, exposure experiences and recovery.  Disasters. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12368

 

  • Grineski, S. E., Collins, T. W., Rubio, R. (2019). Distributional environmental injustices for a minority group without minority status: Arab Americans and residential exposure to carcinogenic air pollution in the US. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(24): 4899. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16244899 
  • Collins, T. W., Grineski, S. E., Chakraborty, J., & Flores, A. B. (2019). Environmental injustice and Hurricane Harvey: A household-level study of socially disparate flood exposures in Greater Houston, Texas, USA. Environmental Research, 108772.
  • Collins, T., Grineski, SE. 2019. Environmental Injustice and religion: Outdoor air pollution disparities in metropolitan Salt Lake City, Utah. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 109(5): 1597-1617  
  • Collins, TW, Nadybal, S. Grineski, SE. 2019. Social Disparities in Exposure to Noise at Public Schools in the Contiguous United States. Environmental Research. 175, 257-265 
  • Grineski, SE, Collins, TW. 2019. Cancer Risks from Hazardous Air Pollutants in US Public School Districts. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. doi: 10.1136/jech-2018-211832
  • Nadybal, S., S. Grineski, T. Collins, A. Flores`, R. Rubio`, C. Mullen`, *A. Castor`, and *A. Griego`. Forthcoming. Environmental justice in the US and beyond: Frameworks, evidence, and social action. Invited chapter in K. Lersch and J. Chakraborty (eds.) Geographies of Behavioral Health, Crime, and Disorder: The Intersection of Social Problems and Place. Springer. (` denotes equal authorship)  
  • Collins, T., Grineski, SE. In press. Environmental Injustice and religion: Outdoor air pollution disparities in metropolitan Salt Lake City, Utah. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2018.1546568.
  • Chakraborty, J, Grineski, SE, Collins, TW. 2019 (e-pub ahead of print). Hurricane Harvey and people with disabilities: Disproportionate Exposure to Flooding in Houston, Texas. Social Science & Medicine. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.02.039.
  • Chakraborty, J, Collins, TW, Grineski, SE. 2019. Exploring the environmental justice implications of Hurricane Harvey flooding in Greater Houston, Texas. American Journal of Public Health109(2): 244-250.
  • Rubio, R, Grineski, SE, Morales, DX, Collins, TW. 2019 (e-pub ahead of print). The role of parents’ nativity in shaping differential risk of food insecurity among US first graders. Maternal and Child Health Journal.

  • Grineski, SE, Morales, DX, Collins, TW, *Hernandez, E,*Fuentes, A. 2018 (e-pub ahead of print). The burden of carcinogenic air toxics among Asian Americans in four US metro areas. Population and Environment. DOI: 10.1007/s11111-018-0308-4.
  • Grineski, SE, Morales, DX, Collins, TW, Rubio, R. 2018. Transitional dynamics and depth of household food insecurity impact children’s developmental outcomes. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. 39(9):715-725.
  • Grineski, SE, Collins, TW. 2018. Geographic and social disparities in exposure to air neurotoxicants at U.S. public schools. Environmental Research.161:580-587.
  • Collins, TW, Grineski, SE, Chakraborty, J. 2018. Environmental injustice and flood risk: A conceptual model andcase comparison of metropolitan Miami and Houston, USA. Regional Environmental Change. 18(2): 311-323.
  • Grineski, SE, Collins, TW. 2018. Environmental justice and borders: lessons from the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Invited chapter in
    R. Holifield, J. Chakraborty, and G. Walker (eds.), Handbook of Environmental Justice. New York: Routledge.
  • Collins, TW, Grineski, SE. 2018. Environmental justice and flood hazards: emerging findings and future research needs.
    Invited chapter in R. Holifield,J. Chakraborty, and G. Walker (eds.), Handbook of Environmental Justice. New York: Routledge.
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