Comparing Distributions of Environmental Outcomes for Regulatory Environmental Justice Analysis

Comparing Distributions of Environmental Outcomes for Regulatory Environmental Justice Analysis

Economists have long been interested in measuring distributional impacts of policy interventions. As environmental justice (EJ) emerged as an ethical issue in the 1970s, the academic literature has provided statistical analyses of the incidence and causes of various environmental outcomes as they relate to race, income, and other demographic variables. In the context of regulatory impacts, howe...

A Framework for Integrating Environmental Justice in Regulatory Analysis

With increased interest in integrating environmental justice into the process for developing environmental regulations in the United States, analysts and decision makers are confronted with the question of what methods and data can be used to assess disproportionate environmental health impacts. However, as a first step to identifying data and methods, it is important that analysts understand w...

"Environmental Justice"

Environmental Justice

Nature is reacting to the activities of modern society in unique and largely unexpected ways. The spread of acidified rain to every continent, a worldwide decline of forested lands, and the ubiquitous presence of persistent organic pollutants due to industrial experiments in biochemistry suggest that the contemporary naturesociety relation includes phenomena unlike any that were previously know...

Strategic elements for environmental justice.

Damage arising from putative environmental sources has been found in the DNA of the gastric and colorectal mucosae of patients presenting with gastrointestinal disorders from the South Manchester area. 06-Methylguanine (06-MeG) in the range 0.010->0.300timolesmole-' adenine was heterogeneously distributed both between and within individuals. The pattern of alkylation of tissue DNA appears to di...