Associations between land cover categories, soil concentrations of arsenic, lead and barium, and population race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 490, Issue , 2014, Pages 1051-1056

  Davis, Harley T ^a   Aelion, C Marjorie ^a,b   Lawson, Andrew B ^c   Cai, Bo ^a   McDermott, Suzanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anderson land cover use; GIS; Human health; Metals; Residential soils

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; LEAD; METALS; SOILS;

HUMAN HEALTH; LAND COVER/USE; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; RESIDENTIAL SOIL; SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS; SOIL CONCENTRATIONS; SOIL METAL CONCENTRATIONS; URBAN LOCATIONS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ARSENIC; BARIUM; LEAD; HEAVY METAL; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ARSENIC; BARIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GIS; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; LAND COVER; LEAD; SATELLITE DATA;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ETHNICITY; GEOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL AREA; LAND USE; POPULATION DENSITY; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; POLLUTION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

UNITED STATES;

ARSENIC; BARIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HUMANS; LEAD; METALS, HEAVY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84901999798     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.05.076     Document Type: Article

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