GIS-based Environmental Equity and Risk Assessment: Methodological Problems and Prospects

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 172-189

  McMaster, Robert B ^a   Leitner, Helga ^a   Sheppard, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental equity; GIS and society; Hazardous materials; Neighborhood mapping; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; HEALTH RISKS; MAPPING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY;

HEALTH HAZARDS;

EID: 0031177606     PISSN: 15230406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1559/152304097782476933     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Bastian, C. L. (ed.) 1995. Toxics watch 1995. New York: Inform, Inc.
2. Bowen, William M., Mark J. Salling, Kingsley E. Haynes, Ellen J. Cyran. 1995. Toward environmental justice: Spatial equity in Ohio & Cleveland. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85(4): 641-63.
3. Burke, Lauretta M. 1993. Race and environmental equity: A geographic analysis in Los Angeles. Geo Info Systems 3(9): 44-50.
4. Cutter, Susan, L. Clark, and D. Holm. 1996. The role of geographic scale in monitoring environmental justice. Risk Analysis 16(4): 517-26.
5. Cutter, Susan L. 1987. Airborne toxic releases. Environment 29:12-31.
6. Glickman, D. 1994. Measuring environmental equity with GIS. Renewable resources Journal 12(3): 17-21.
7. Heiman, Michael. 1997. Science by people: Grassroots environmental monitoring and the debate over scientific expertise. Journal of Planning Education and Research 16(4): 291-302.
8. Institute on Race and Poverty. 1996. Examining the relationship between housing, education, and persistent segregation. Minneapolis: Institute on Race and Poverty.
9. Johnson, James H., and Donald J. Zeigler. 1986. Evacuation planning for technological hazards: An emergency imperative. Cities 3: 148-56.
10. McMaster, Robert B. 1990. Modeling community vulnerability to hazardous materials using geographic information systems. In: D. Peuquet, and D. Marble (eds). Introductory Readings in GIS. London: Taylor and Francis, pp. 183-194.
11. Moore, T. J. 1993. Assessing the risk from air toxics. Geo Info Systems 3(1): 42-50.
12. Pratt, Gregory C, Paul E. Gerbec, Sherryl K. Livingston, Fardin Oliaei, George L. Bollweg, Sally Paterson, and Donald Mackay. 1993. An indexing system for comparing toxic air pollutants based on their potential environmental impacts. Chemopshere 27(8): 1359-79.
13. Sheppard, Eric. 1995. GIS and society: Towards a research agenda. Cartography and Geographical Information Systems 22(1): 5-16.
14. Sui, Daniel Z., and John R. Giardino. 1995. Applications of GIS in environmental equity analysis: A multi-scale and multi-zoning scheme study for the City of Houston, Texas, USA. Proceeding GIS/LIS'95, pp. 950-959.
15. United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice. 1987. Toxic wastes and race in the United States: A national report on the racial and socio-economic characteristics of communities with hazardous waste sites. United Church of Christ, New York.