Doctoral Dissertation Research: Environmental Outcomes in Multiple Spatial Scales

博士论文研究：多空间尺度的环境成果

• 批准号: 1434022
• 负责人: John Logan
• 金额: $ 1.19万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1434022&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Environmental; Outcomes

SES-1434022John LoganJuyoung LeeBrown UniversityThis dissertation investigates how a spatialized political economy shapes the distribution of environmental hazards across neighborhoods. Specifically, it examines toxic chemicals released by chemical manufacturing facilities. Previous quantitative studies have focused on the racial and socioeconomic characteristics of neighborhoods to understand environmental inequality. However, one cannot fully understand neighborhood-level variation in environmental hazards without also taking into account social processes and decisions at the city, state, and national levels. This dissertation will analyze information for 2000-2010 from the Toxic Release Inventory Program, U.S. Census, and other data sources, and it will examine how corporations, governments, and environmental movement groups influenced local environmental outcomes in this period. This dissertation will contribute to understanding environmental inequality, and it will enhance the literatures on neighborhood effects, social movements, and organizational behavior. Broader ImpactEnvironmental inequalities reflect underlying social inequities that are typically tied to race and class. At the same time, environmental inequalities generate other types of inequality, such as health disparities, and in this way they reinforce preexisting racial and class differences. The multilevel perspective taken by this dissertation will identify the conditions under which disadvantaged neighborhoods are likely to suffer from environmental hazards. It will have policy implications for governments, environmental organizations, and corporations at the local, regional and national scale, with the goal of improving the quality of life of marginalized social groups in the United States.

SES-1434022 John Logan Juyoung LeeBrown University本论文研究了空间化政治经济如何影响社区环境危害的分布。具体来说，它检查了化学制造设施释放的有毒化学物质。以前的定量研究主要集中在社区的种族和社会经济特征，以了解环境不平等。然而，如果不考虑城市、州和国家层面的社会进程和决策，人们就无法完全理解环境危害的邻里水平变化。本文将分析2000-2010年的有毒物质排放清单计划，美国人口普查和其他数据来源的信息，并将研究企业，政府和环保运动团体如何影响当地的环境结果在此期间。本论文将有助于理解环境不平等，并将丰富邻里效应，社会运动和组织行为的文献。更广泛的影响环境不平等反映了潜在的社会不平等，通常与种族和阶级有关。与此同时，环境不平等也产生了其他类型的不平等，如健康方面的差异，从而强化了先前存在的种族和阶级差异。本论文所采取的多层次视角将确定弱势社区可能遭受环境危害的条件。它将在地方、区域和国家范围内对政府、环境组织和公司产生政策影响，目标是改善美国边缘化社会群体的生活质量。