Which came first, people or pollution? Assessing the disparate siting and post-siting demographic change hypotheses of environmental injustice

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Mohai, Paul ^a   Saha, Robin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

environmental disparities; environmental justice; environmental justice evidence; environmental justice theory; environmental racism; longitudinal studies; racial disparities

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH;

ENVIRONMENTAL DISPARITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; RACIAL DISPARITIES;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

DATABASE; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LOW INCOME POPULATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; RACIAL DISPARITY; RACISM; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84949239048     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/11/115008     Document Type: Article

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