Investigating Linkages Between Public Policy Decisions and Environmental Equity Concerns

调查公共政策决策与环境公平问题之间的联系

• 批准号: 9511979
• 负责人: Evan Ringquist
• 金额: $ 5.9万
• 依托单位: Florida State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-08-15 至 1998-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9511979&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Investigating; Linkages; Between; Public; Policy

Evidence that poor and minority neighborhoods suffer disproportionate levels of exposure to environmental hazards has mobilized citizen groups, and these groups have pressured governmental officials for action to alleviate the problems. The unknown source(s) of environmental inequities raises additional questions. Are government actions directly responsible for inequitable risks from environmental pollution? To date, the contribution of public policy to environmental inequity has been viewed as a problem to be remedied rather than a hypothesis to be tested. This research will evaluate the distributional consequences of policy decisions in environmental protection. The research will establish whether policy decisions produce unequal risks. If so, the processes that generate these policy outcomes will be examined. A model of environmental policymaking will be offered and tested. The model will provide insight into the consequences of market incentives on pollution control as well as the ways in which government policy can increase or alleviate environmental inequities.

有证据表明，穷人和少数民族社区遭受不成比例的环境危害，动员了公民团体，这些团体向政府官员施压，要求采取行动缓解问题。 环境不公平的未知来源引起了更多的问题。 政府行为是否对环境污染造成的不公平风险负有直接责任？ 迄今为止，公共政策对环境不平等的贡献一直被视为一个需要解决的问题，而不是一个需要检验的假设。 这项研究将评估环境保护政策决定的分配后果。这项研究将确定政策决定是否会产生不平等的风险。 如果是，将审查产生这些政策结果的过程。 将提供和测试一个环境决策模式。 该模型将提供洞察市场激励对污染控制的后果以及政府政策可以增加或减轻环境不公平的方式。