Environmental Inequality in Metropolitan America in 2000

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ID2154580
AutoresL Downey (0000-0002-4549-3190, University of Colorado Boulder, autor correspondente)
Ano2006
Volume26
Fascículo1
Páginas21-41
Data de publicação2006-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociological Spectrum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0273-2173 • E-ISSN: 1521-0707
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02732170500256716
PMID21909177
PMCIDPMC3169240
OpenAlexW2074380073
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas23
Referências citadas38

This article compares black and Hispanic environmental inequality levels across 14 of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States and asks how conclusions regarding the existence of environmental inequality differ when different definitions of environmental inequality are employed. Using census tracts as the unit of analysis, industrial pollution data from the Toxic Release Inventory, and demographic data from the U.S. census, tobit regression analysis is used to determine whether two types of environmental racial inequality-disparate social impacts inequality and relative distribution inequality-existed in each metropolitan area in 2000. Results show that black and Hispanic environmental inequality were fairly widespread throughout the 14 metropolitan areas, that Hispanic environmental inequality was more widespread than black environmental inequality, and that conclusions vary depending upon which definition of environmental inequality is employed. This latter findings suggests that the conclusions researchers draw are likely to be inaccurate if they do not properly specify the definitions of environmental inequality they are using and the types of environmental inequality they are studying

Archaeology · Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Inequality · Metropolitan area · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Mathematics