TY - JOUR
T1 - Linking socio-economic status, adverse health outcome, and environmental pollution information to develop a set of environmental justice indicators with three case study applications
AU - Barzyk, Timothy M.
AU - White, Brandi M.
AU - Millard, Margaret
AU - Martin, Marilou
AU - Perlmutt, Lars D.
AU - Harris, Francene
AU - Nguyen, Phuong
AU - Walts, Alan
AU - Geller, Andrew
PY - 2011/9/1
Y1 - 2011/9/1
N2 - Environmental justice (EJ) indicators, including a number of parameters ranging from pollutant concentrations to socio-economic status, were compiled for three case study locations that have a documented history of EJ issues. Instead of consolidating the 14 EJ indicators into a single metric, they are displayed separately to facilitate comparisons at four different spatial scales to allow characterization of local, city, county, and state environmental conditions. This methodology provides a broader assessment of EJ, conveyed more as a neighborhood story than as an associative relationship. Information and measurements for these EJ indicators were downloaded from national and local sources of publicly available, Web-based information. There are different motivations for conducting EJ assessments, but this approach provides an overview of the conditions for a given community so that a range of options can be considered to inform and support the EJ decision-making process.
AB - Environmental justice (EJ) indicators, including a number of parameters ranging from pollutant concentrations to socio-economic status, were compiled for three case study locations that have a documented history of EJ issues. Instead of consolidating the 14 EJ indicators into a single metric, they are displayed separately to facilitate comparisons at four different spatial scales to allow characterization of local, city, county, and state environmental conditions. This methodology provides a broader assessment of EJ, conveyed more as a neighborhood story than as an associative relationship. Information and measurements for these EJ indicators were downloaded from national and local sources of publicly available, Web-based information. There are different motivations for conducting EJ assessments, but this approach provides an overview of the conditions for a given community so that a range of options can be considered to inform and support the EJ decision-making process.
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U2 - 10.1089/env.2010.0047
DO - 10.1089/env.2010.0047
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80053080643
VL - 4
SP - 171
EP - 177
IS - 3
ER -