Environmental Hazards as Disamenities: Selective Migration and Income Change in the United States from 2000-2010

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 280-291

  Shumway, J Matthew ^a   Otterstrom, Samuel ^a   Glavac, Sonya ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

environmental hazards; in migration; outmigration

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INCOME; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; VULNERABILITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84895923565     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.873322     Document Type: Article

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