Journal article
Environmental justice in a French industrial region: Are polluting industrial facilities equally distributed?
Health & place, Vol.17(1), pp.257-262
01/01/2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.10.007
PMID: 21075035
Abstract
Recent studies have suggested that minority or deprived groups are subject to the additional burden of a polluted living environment. Our goal is to determine whether such environmental inequalities occur in France's leading industrial region, using detailed socio-economic data and advanced Bayesian methods. Associations between proximity to hazardous facilities (i.e., within a 2 km radius) and the socio-economic characteristics of populations are analyzed at fine geographical scales. Noxious facilities are disproportionately located in higher foreign-born communities after controlling for deprivation (Townsend score), population density and rural/urban status. High deprivation also appears as a predictive factor, although less strongly and less consistently. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Environmental justice in a French industrial region: Are polluting industrial facilities equally distributed?
- Creators
- Jean-Francois Viel - Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueMathieu Haegi - CNRS 6249 Chronoenvironm, Besancon, FranceErika Upegui - Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueLucie Laurian - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Health & place, Vol.17(1), pp.257-262
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.10.007
- PMID
- 21075035
- NLM abbreviation
- Health Place
- ISSN
- 1353-8292
- eISSN
- 1873-2054
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2011
- Academic Unit
- Public Policy Center (Archive); School of Planning and Public Affairs
- Record Identifier
- 9984270198302771
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