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

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Booker, Douglas and Petrou, Giorgos and Chatzidiakoud, L and Darpan, Das and Farooq, Faisal and Ferguson, Lauren and Jutila, Otto-Emil and Milczewska, Kaja and Modlich, Manlina and Moreno-Rangel, Alejandro and Thakrar, S and Yeoman, Amber and Davies, Mike and Iq, Mead and Miller, Mark and Wild, Oliver and Shi, Z. and Mavrogianni, Anna and Doherty, Ruth M. (2025) Ten questions concerning the future of residential indoor air quality and its environmental justice implications. In: Indoor air 2026: Enhancing Wellbeing in Existential Challenges, 2026-06-14 - 2026-06-18, Singapore Management University. (In Press)

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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 targets. However, it is unclear how these changes will affect indoor air quality, and to what extent they will differentially impact 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, Giorgos, Chatzidiakoud, L, Darpan, Das, Farooq, Faisal, Ferguson, Lauren, Jutila, Otto-Emil, Milczewska, Kaja, Modlich, Manlina, Moreno-Rangel, Alejandro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6405-4233, Thakrar, S, Yeoman, Amber, Davies, Mike, Iq, Mead, Miller, Mark, Wild, Oliver, Shi, Z., Mavrogianni, Anna and Doherty, Ruth M.;
  • Item type:Conference or Workshop Item(Paper)
    ID code:95339
    Dates:
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    18 November 2025
    Published
    18 November 2025
    Accepted
    Subjects:UNSPECIFIED
    Department:Faculty of Engineering > Architecture
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:19 Jan 2026 10:58
    Last modified:22 Jan 2026 02:43
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/95339
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