Measuring Corporate Environmental Justice Performance
Measuring Corporate Environmental Justice Performance
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DOI：
10.1002/csr.238
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发表时间：
2011-03-01
影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
Boyce, James K.
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作者：
Ash, Michael;Boyce, James K.
衡量公司环境公正的业绩可以是一个宝贵的工具，有助于促进公司的社会责任和记录环境不公正的系统模式。本文根据工业设施的有毒空气排放对种族和少数民族以及低收入人群的影响程度制定了这样一种衡量标准。将该措施应用于美国100家主要的企业空气污染者，我们发现不成比例的暴露程度存在很大差异。在54个案例中，占美国人口31.8%的少数民族承担了额外的负担;在其中15个案例中，少数民族的份额超过了公司工业空气污染对人类健康总影响的一半。在66个案例中，占美国人口12.8%的贫困人口承担了超额负担。版权所有c 2010约翰威利父子有限公司和ERP环境。
Measures of corporate environmental justice performance can be a valuable tool in efforts to promote corporate social responsibility and to document systematic patterns of environmental injustice. This paper develops such a measure based on the extent to which toxic air emissions from industrial facilities disproportionately impact racial and ethnic minorities and those on low incomes. Applying the measure to 100 major corporate air polluters in the United States, we find wide variation in the extent of disproportional exposures. In 54 cases, minorities, who represent 31.8% of the US population, bear excess burden; in 15 of these cases, the minority share exceeds half of the total human health impacts from the firm's industrial air pollution. In 66 cases, poor people, who represent 12.8% of the US population, bear excess burden. Copyright c 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.