Year: 1995
Type: article
Abstract: Environmental equity refers to the equal distribution of environmental risks across population groups.Conversely, environmental inequity exists when risks are disproportionately borne by particular population groups.Hazardous waste facility sites can be seen as indicators of environmental risk, at least to the extent that they pose actual, potential, and perceived risks.'Such risks can be economic, negatively affecting surrounding property values, or health-related, exposing populations to cancer-causing agents.Thus, demographic trends around facility locations are a measure of how environmental risks are distributed across population groups.A number of published reports have called attention to inequitable siting of hazardous waste facilities in the United States.Recently, however, these findings have been challenged.In the April 1994 issue of Evaluation Review, the article, "Hazardous Waste Facilities 'Environmental Equity' Issues in Metropolitan Areas" (Evaluation Review Report) reaches a different conclusion.While previous studies have noted that hazardous waste facilities are more likely to be found in areas occupied by poor and minority populations, 2 the Evaluation Review Report claims t M.C.
Source: Chicana/o Latina/o Law Review
DOI: 10.5070/c7161021054
Author: Rodolfo Mata
Institution: Princeton University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2610286174