The Legacy Effect: Understanding How Segregation and Environmental Injustice Unfold over Time in Baltimore

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 524-537

  Grove, Morgan ^a   Ogden, Laura ^b   Pickett, Steward ^c   Boone, Chris ^d   Buckley, Geoff ^e   Locke, Dexter H ^f   Lord, Charlie ^g   Hall, Billy ^f  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^c CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g Renew Energy Partners   (United States)

Author keywords

Baltimore; distributive justice; environmental justice; procedural justice; segregation

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; LANDSCAPE; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; URBAN AREA; URBAN SOCIETY;

BALTIMORE; MARYLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85031497684     PISSN: 24694452     EISSN: 24694460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2017.1365585     Document Type: Article

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