Environmental equity in Urban Texas: Race, income, and patterns of acute and Chronic Toxic Air releases in Metropolitan Counties

Urban Geography

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 516-533

  Tiefenbacher, John P ^a   Hagelman, Ronald R ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ETHNIC MINORITY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RACIAL DISPARITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN AREA;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033360876     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.20.6.516     Document Type: Article

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