One Take #1: Ten questions concerning the future of residential indoor air quality and its environmental justice implications

Send us a textWe explore a paper examining the future of residential air quality and its environmental justice implications. This research highlights how poor indoor air quality disproportionately affects disadvantaged communities, creating a "triple jeopardy" of higher exposure, greater health burdens, and limited resources to address the problem.• Indoor air can be more polluted than outdoor air, with pollutants coming from building materials, cleaning products, cooking, and outdoor air infiltration• We spend 90% of our time indoors, with 70% in our homes, making residential air quality crucial to our overall health• The environmental justice framework examines who is exposed to pollution and why through five dimensions: distributive, procedural, recognition, capabilities, and epistemic justice• Social inequalities lead to uneven exposure to poor indoor air quality, with lower socioeconomic groups often facing greater health risks• Climate change will worsen indoor air quality through higher temperatures, humidity, and changing outdoor pollution patterns• Net zero policies create tensions between energy efficiency and adequate ventilation for healthy indoor environments• New technologies like air purifiers may create further inequalities if not accessible to all communitiesClean indoor air for everyone is both a technical and social challenge that requires bringing together researchers, policymakers, and communities to develop equitable solutions. See you next week.PaperLead Author - D BookerSupport the showCheck out the Air Quality Matters website for more information, updates and more. And the YouTube Channel The Air Quality Matters Podcast is brought to you in partnership with. Eurovent Farmwood Aereco Aico Ultra Protect Zehnder Group The One Take Podcast is brought to you in partnership with. SafeTraces & InBiot All great companies that share the podcast's passion for better air quality in the built environment. Supporting them helps support the show.