Interneighborhood Migration, Race, and Environmental Hazards: Modeling Microlevel Processes of Environmental Inequality
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Interneighborhood migration, race, and environmental hazards: modeling microlevel processes of environmental inequality.
This study combines longitudinal individual-level data with neighborhood-level industrial hazard data to examine the extent and sources of environmental inequality. Results indicate that profound racial and ethnic differences in proximity to industrial pollution persist when differences in individual education, household income, and other microlevel characteristics are controlled. Examination o...
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This study contributes to our understanding of the association between internal migration patterns and environmentally hazardous facilities, with a focus upon racespecific outmigration at the county-level, nationwide. Among research suggesting inequalities with regard to the social distribution of environmental risk, selective migration is often implied to be a key dynamic leading to differenti...
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Losses due to natural hazards (e.g., earthquakes, hurricanes) and technological hazards (e.g., nuclear waste facilities, chemical spills) are both on the rise. One response to hazard-related losses is migration, with this paper offering a review of research examining the association between migration and environmental hazards. Using examples from both developed and developing regional contexts,...
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When we talk about environmental justice, we mean calling a halt to the poisoning of our poorest communities, from our rural areas to our inner cities. We don’t have a person to waste and pollution clearly wastes human lives and natural resources. When our children’s lives are no longer damaged by lead poisoning, we will stop wasting the energy and intelligence that could build a stronger and m...
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It would be highly surprising if the world of global environmental politics existed above, or somehow transgressed, the global politics of exclusion and inequality which characterize all other global social relations. It is my contention indeed that they do not, despite the lack of attention within the study of global environmental politics to these fundamental issues. The challenge, however, i...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Sociology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0002-9602,1537-5390
DOI: 10.1086/649576