Uncovering the historic environmental hazards of urban brownfields

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• environmental hazard 80%
• redevelopment 53%
• cleanup 50%
• health 47%
• educational attainment 35%
• metal smelting 35%
• environmental health risks 34%
• social status 33%
• oil refining 32%
• hazard 32%
• respiratory disease 28%
• chlorinated hydrocarbon 28%
• health status 28%
• industrial site 27%
• cardiovascular disease 27%
• paint 24%
• poverty 23%
• cancer 21%
• screening 19%
• PAH 19%
• manufacturing 18%
• plastic 17%
• mortality 17%
• heavy metal 16%
• planning 14%
• metal 13%
• city 12%
• need 12%
• monitoring 12%
• analysis 6%
• method 5%

Social Sciences

• Brownfields 100%
• Brownfield properties 87%
• redevelopment 52%
• warehousing 34%
• health 31%
• heart disease 29%
• real estate 26%
• Environmental Health 26%
• health risk 23%
• risk management 23%
• health status 22%
• working class 22%
• cancer 21%
• manufacturing 20%
• surveillance 20%
• mortality 19%
• social status 18%
• poverty 16%
• planning 13%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Baltimore 44%
• Metals 20%
• Chlorinated Hydrocarbons 17%
• Health 16%
• Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons 14%
• Paint 14%
• Environmental Health 14%
• Heavy Metals 13%
• Risk Management 12%
• Poverty 12%
• Mortality 11%
• Oils 11%
• Plastics 11%
• Health Status 10%
• Heart Diseases 9%
• Demography 7%
• Neoplasms 3%