Reexamining Environmental Justice: A Statistical Analysis of Historical Hazardous Waste Landfill Siting Patterns in Metropolitan Texas

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1996, Pages

  Yandle, Tracy ^a   Burton, Dudley ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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