Environmental Justice AnalysisTheories, Methods, and Practice - Chapter 14 (end) pdf

... the Population, Chapter C, General Social and Economic Characteristics, Part 1, United States Summary, PC8 0-1 -C1; Connecticut, PC8 0-1 -C8; New Jersey, PC8 0-1 -C32; New York, PC8 0-1 -C34; Pennsylvania, PC8 0-1 -C40. Bureau ... Retrieval and Analysis System (GIRAS) land use and land cover, and other features. This appli- cation is particularly useful for conducting site...

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... parts: theories, methods, and practice. Chapter 2 covers relevant theories, Chapters 3 through 9 cover methods, and Chapters 10 through 14 cover practice and case studies. As argued in Chapter 2, theories ... Environ- mental justice advocates have also attacked current policies and practice in risk assessment, “discriminatory zoning and land use practices,” and “e...

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... perspectives on the environmental justice movement, which the reader can easily find in the current environmental justice literature. 2.1 THEORIES OF JUSTICE AND EQUITY Theories of justice and equity ... residences in the commu- nities with the lowest environmental quality and the most serious environmental risks. This association between population distribution and...

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... in subsequent chapters and provides a bird’s eye view of environmental justice analysis. 3.1 INQUIRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ANALYSIS 3.1.1 P O SITIVISM AND P ARTICIPATORY ... both. Research methods depend on the purpose of environmental justice and equity analysis. Analysts at both the macro- and micro-levels should confront major methodolog- ical issu...

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... exposure and health risk Micro -environmental concentrations • Micro -environmental monitoring • Micro -environmental modeling Time-activity patterns Good human exposure indicators Difficult and ... construction, on-line, and on-going operation. The pre-rumor stage is before any mention of the possibility of a noxious facility and reflects a pre- treatment equilibrium between s...

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... availability of developable land or land capacity, land use plan, and local development and land use policies. Local analysts rely heavily on local land use plans and regulations and are often influenced ... minority and low-income populations. These two subpopulations are also the subjects in most environmental justice and equity analy- ses. Greenberg (1993) argues that envir...

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... Chapter 4, environmental modeling and monitoring have pro- vided us with some data, methods, and models for delineating plume trajectory of pollutants and thus the impact boundary of single environmental ... the entire land and inland water area of a census tract. BG boundaries should follow visible and identifiable features, such as roads, rivers, canals, railroads, and ab...

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... the Wilcoxon signed-rank test has a clear advantage over the z-test and t-test. Outliers and extreme values will not affect the Wilcoxon signed-rank test, unlike the z-test and t-test. However, ... rank-order correlation (Hollander and Wolfe 1973). This is a distribution-free test statistic, which requires only random samples and is applicable to ordinal and higher scales of measu...

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... environmental justice advocates; 2. There was a significant association between TSDF location and manufac- turing employment and industrial land use, as suggested by critics of environmental justice; 3. ... between the loca- tion of hazardous waste landfills and the racial and economic status of the surround- ing communities” (GAO 1983:1). The GAO studied offsite landfills in the...

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... gravity-type accessibility measures and fine-grained units of analysis. Sanchez (1999) used gravity-type acces- sibility measures for access to job and a two-stage least-square regression for esti- mating ... (dust and odor), aesthetic character, compatibility with community characteristics Land-use impacts Farmland, induced development, consistency and compatibility with land-use p...

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