Linking socio-economic status, adverse health outcome, and environmental pollution information to develop a set of environmental justice indicators with three case study applications

Environmental Justice

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 171-177

  Barzyk, Timothy M ^a   White, Brandi M ^b   Millard, Margaret ^c   Martin, Marilou ^c   Perlmutt, Lars D ^b   Harris, Francene ^c   Nguyen, Phuong ^c   Walts, Alan ^c   Geller, Andrew ^d  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b US EPA Office of Research and Development   (United States)

^c US EPA Region 5   (United States)

^d NERL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; HEALTH STATUS; INFORMATICS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN AREA; URBAN POLLUTION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 80053080643     PISSN: 19394071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/env.2010.0047     Document Type: Article

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