A perspective on the historical analysis of race and treatment storage and disposal facilities in the United States

Stretesky, Paul and McKie, Ruth (2016) A perspective on the historical analysis of race and treatment storage and disposal facilities in the United States. Environmental Research Letters, 11 (3). pp. 1-3. ISSN 1748-9326

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/031001

Abstract

Studies of environmental injustice have been intensely scrutinized by social science researchers since the publication of the United Church of Christ’s Commission for Racial Justice report entitled Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States in 1987. Importantly, there has been an emphasis on analysing longitudinal data to answer the question ‘which came first, people or pollution?’ In addition, determining where environmental hazards are located and how demographics around those hazards are estimated has become central to any empirical enquiry on the topic. This new letter by Mohai and Saha (2015 Environ. Res. Lett. 10 115008) adds to our emerging understanding of environmental justice by analysing the distribution of Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facilities across the United States to determine why they are concentrated in non-white and low income neighbourhoods. The researchers clearly demonstrate how longitudinal analysis and advances in geographic information system methodology can help address meaningful social questions about environmental inequality that are central to environmental policy and practice.


Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: hazardous waste, environmental justice, GIS methodology
Subjects: L300 Sociology
L700 Human and Social Geography
Department: Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Social Sciences
Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Geography and Environmental Sciences
Depositing User: Professor Paul Stretesky
Date Deposited: 29 Feb 2016 09:44
Last Modified: 01 Aug 2021 12:50
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/26171

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