Ten questions concerning the future of residential indoor air quality and its environmental justice implications

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Booker, Douglas and Petrou, Giorgios and Chatzidiakoud, L and Darpan, Das and Farooq, Faisal and Ferguson, L and Jutila, OE and Milczewska, Kaja and Modlich, Manlina and Moreno-Rangel, Alejandro and Thakrar, S and Yeoman, A and Davies, M. and Mead, M.I. and Miller, Mark and Wild, OE and Shi, Z. and Mavrogianni, Anna and Doherty, R. (2025) Ten questions concerning the future of residential indoor air quality and its environmental justice implications. Building and Environment. 112957. ISSN 0360-1323 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2025.112957)

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Abstract

Humans spend a large proportion of their time at home, where exposure to poor indoor air quality has detrimental – and often inequitably distributed – impacts on health and wellbeing. Unprecedented changes to residential indoor environments are expected in the coming decades, especially in order to meet net zero energy and greenhouse gas emissions targets. However, it is unclear how these changes will affect indoor air quality, and to what extent they will differentially impact different social groups. In this paper, we pose and address ten questions concerning the future of residential indoor air quality and its environmental justice implications. We pay attention to environmental justice in relation to indoor air quality, including distributive, procedural, recognition, capabilities, and epistemic dimensions. The ten questions specifically address: social gradients in health and exposure, and how changes in climate, policies, behaviours, technologies, populations, and demographics might affect residential indoor air quality and environmental justice. We also highlight the role that transdisciplinary research can play in improving residential indoor air quality in a more environmentally just way.

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Booker, Douglas, Petrou, Giorgios, Chatzidiakoud, L, Darpan, Das, Farooq, Faisal, Ferguson, L, Jutila, OE, Milczewska, Kaja, Modlich, Manlina, Moreno-Rangel, Alejandro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6405-4233, Thakrar, S, Yeoman, A, Davies, M., Mead, M.I., Miller, Mark, Wild, OE, Shi, Z., Mavrogianni, Anna and Doherty, R.;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:92533
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    1 April 2025
    Published
    1 April 2025
    Published Online
    31 March 2025
    Accepted
    Subjects:Fine Arts > Architecture
    Department:Faculty of Engineering > Architecture
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:04 Apr 2025 10:33
    Last modified:04 Apr 2025 10:33
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/92533
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