Linking socio-economic status, adverse health outcome, and environmental pollution information to develop a set of environmental justice indicators with three case study applications

Timothy M. Barzyk, Brandi M. White, Margaret Millard, Marilou Martin, Lars D. Perlmutt, Francene Harris, Phuong Nguyen, Alan Walts, Andrew Geller

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)171-177
Number of pages7
JournalEnvironmental Justice
Volume4
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 1 2011

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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