Environmental injustice can be expressed through lack of access to resources, unequal exposure to toxins, and limited access to knowledge about the unsustainable environmental practices that impact communities (Bullard 2018). The ecological processes that contribute to the “perfect storm” of conditions that create environmental injustices are well documented in applied ecology scholarship; yet the human dimension or the co‐production of research on those impacts seem to fall into the range of “somebody else’s problem.” In a literature review of the last 15 years of research published in the Ecological Society of America’s family of journals, we explored the intersections of environmental processes and social justice issues, searching for themes, gaps, and opportunities. The resultant is a collection of articles on environmental justice topics that includes issues on access to resources and unequal exposure to environmental hazards and pollutants. This collection highlights gaps in the integration of natural science with social justice topics along with the need for stronger integration of interdisciplinary knowledge that is co‐produced with community stakeholders and researchers to build a robust interdisciplinary field of climate justice and global environmental sustainability.

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将环境正义融入应用生态学研究：别人的问题？

环境不公正可以通过无法获得资源、不平等地接触毒素以及对影响社区的不可持续环境实践的知识获取有限来表达（Bullard 2018）。导致环境不公正的条件“完美风暴”的生态过程在应用生态学研究中有充分的记录；然而，人的维度或对这些影响的共同研究似乎落入“别人的问题”的范围内。在美国生态学会旗下期刊发表的过去 15 年研究文献综述中，我们探索了环境过程和社会正义问题的交叉点，寻找主题、差距和机会。结果是一系列关于环境正义主题的文章，其中包括关于获取资源和不平等地暴露于环境危害和污染物的问题。该系列突出了自然科学与社会正义主题整合方面的差距，以及加强与社区利益相关者和研究人员共同产生的跨学科知识整合的必要性，以建立一个强大的气候正义和全球环境可持续性跨学科领域。