Environmental justice and regional inequality in southern California: implications for future research.
Environmental justice and regional inequality in southern California: implications for future research.
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DOI：
10.1289/ehp.02110s2149
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发表时间：
2002-04
影响因子：
10.4
通讯作者：
Sadd J
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文献类型：
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作者：
Morello-Frosch R;Pastor M Jr;Porras C;Sadd J
环境正义为研究人员提供了关于社会不平等和公共卫生之间关系的新见解，并为有关歧视对美国不同社区环境健康的影响的政策讨论提供了框架。然而，将潜在危险设施或环境污染的存在与不利健康影响联系起来是很困难的，特别是在不同人群接触复杂化学混合物的情况下。南加州的一个社区学术研究合作机构试图通过利用空气排放清单和空气暴露建模数据的最新进展进行环境正义研究来解决其中一些方法论挑战。我们的几项研究结果表明，有色人种社区在处理、储存和处置设施以及有毒物质排放清单设施的位置上承受着不成比例的负担。纵向分析进一步表明，造成这些差异的原因是设施选址在有色人种社区，而不是基于市场的“少数族裔迁入”。该合作组织还调查了移动和固定来源的室外空气有毒物质暴露对健康风险的影响，发现种族在预测该地区人群癌症风险分布方面发挥着解释作用，即使在控制其他社会经济和人口指标后也是如此。尽管尚不清楚南加州的研究结果是否可以有意义地推广到美国其他地区，但它们确实对环境正义领域的未来研究具有影响。作者提出了一个政治经济学和社会不平等框架来指导未来的研究，更好地阐明环境不平等的根源及其持续存在的原因。
Environmental justice offers researchers new insights into the juncture of social inequality and public health and provides a framework for policy discussions on the impact of discrimination on the environmental health of diverse communities in the United States. Yet, causally linking the presence of potentially hazardous facilities or environmental pollution with adverse health effects is difficult, particularly in situations in which diverse populations are exposed to complex chemical mixtures. A community-academic research collaborative in southern California sought to address some of these methodological challenges by conducting environmental justice research that makes use of recent advances in air emissions inventories and air exposure modeling data. Results from several of our studies indicate that communities of color bear a disproportionate burden in the location of treatment, storage, and disposal facilities and Toxic Release Inventory facilities. Longitudinal analysis further suggests that facility siting in communities of color, not market-based "minority move-in," accounts for these disparities. The collaborative also investigated the health risk implications of outdoor air toxics exposures from mobile and stationary sources and found that race plays an explanatory role in predicting cancer risk distributions among populations in the region, even after controlling for other socioeconomic and demographic indicators. Although it is unclear whether study results from southern California can be meaningfully generalized to other regions in the United States, they do have implications for approaching future research in the realm of environmental justice. The authors propose a political economy and social inequality framework to guide future research that could better elucidate the origins of environmental inequality and reasons for its persistence.
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影响因子：
3.4
作者：
KRIEGER, N;FEE, E
通讯作者：
FEE, E
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8306.1995.tb01818.x
发表时间：
1995-12-01
期刊：
ANNALS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS
影响因子：
--
作者：
Bowen, WM;Salling, MJ;Cyran, EJ
通讯作者：
Cyran, EJ
影响因子：
5
作者：
HAAN, M;KAPLAN, GA;CAMACHO, T
通讯作者：
CAMACHO, T
影响因子：
1.9
作者：
BULLARD, RD
通讯作者：
BULLARD, RD
影响因子：
5.4
作者：
Ecob, R;Smith, GD
通讯作者：
Smith, GD