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

Abstract

Although a large body of quantitative environmental justice research exists, only a handful of studies have examined the processes by which racial and socioeconomic disparities in the location of polluting industrial facilities can occur. These studies have had mixed results, we contend, principally because of methodological differences, that is, the use of the unit-hazard coincidence method as compared to distance-based methods. This study is the first national-level environmental justice study to conduct longitudinal analyses using distance-based methods. Our purposes are to: (1) determine w

Abstract by Paul Mohai; Robin Saha, Environmental Research Letters (2015) — licensed CC BY 4.0.

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