Environmental injustices in transnational context: Urbanization and industrial hazards in El Paso/Ciudad juárez

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1308-1327

  Grineski, Sara E ^a   Collins, Timothy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MARGINALIZATION; METROPOLITAN AREA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION;

CHIHUAHUA; EL PASO; JUAREZ; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956087082     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a42392     Document Type: Article

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