Transboundary air pollution and environmental justice: Vancouver and Seattle compared

GeoJournal

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 595-608

  Su, Jason G ^a   Larson, Timothy ^b   Gould, Timothy ^b   Cohen, Martin ^b   Buzzelli, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Environmental justice; Generalized additive model; Lagrange multiplier; Land use regression; Spatial dependency; Transboundary

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; LAGRANGE; LAND USE REGRESSION; SPATIAL DEPENDENCY; TRANS-BOUNDARY;

AIR QUALITY; COERCIVE FORCE; ECONOMICS; FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LAND USE; NITROGEN OXIDES; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

POLLUTION;

AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CENSUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; IMMIGRANT; LAND USE CHANGE; NEIGHBORHOOD; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC EMISSION; TRANSBOUNDARY POLLUTION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; SEATTLE; UNITED STATES; VANCOUVER; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 78449289738     PISSN: 03432521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10708-009-9269-6     Document Type: Article

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