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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2012, 9, 1593-1608; doi:10.3390/ijerph9051593 OPEN ACCESS International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ISSN 1660-4601 /journal/ijerph Article Cumulative Environmental Vulnerability and Environmental Justice in California’s San Joaquin Valley Ganlin Huang 1,† ,* and Jonathan K. London 2,† 1 Center for Regional Change, University of California at Davis, 152 Hunt Hall, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA 2 Department of Human and Community Development, University of California at Davis, 2335 Hart Hall One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA; E-Mail: jklondon@ † These authors contributed equally to this work. * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: ganlinhuang@; Tel.: +1-530-752-0425; Fax: +1-530-752-3677. Received: 19 March 2012; in revised form: 16 April 2012 / Accepted: 27 April 2012 / Published: 3 May 2012 Abstract: The identification of “environmental justice (EJ) communities” is an increasingly common element in environmental planning, policy, and regulation. As a result, the choice of methods to define and identify these communities is a critical and often contentious process. This contentiousness is, in turn, a factor of the lack of a commonly accepted method, the