While urban disamenities and pollution sources have received considerable attention in environmental justice research, few studies examined sociospatial inequities associated with the distribution of desirable land uses. In this paper we focus on addressing limitation by investigating equity implications street trees—an important publicly financed amenity that provides several direct indirect benefits to residents. The specific objective was determine if spatial public right-of-way trees is...

Developing an effective evacuation strategy for hurricane zones presents challenges to emergency planners because of spatial differences in geophysical risk and social vulnerability. This study examines variability assistance needs as related the hazard. Two quantitative indicators are developed: a index, based on National Hurricane Center Flood Insurance Program data, vulnerability census information. These indices combined determine patterns Hillsborough County, Florida. Four dimensions...

Abstract Though circular buffer zones are commonly used in environmental equity assessment, the results obtained may not be entirely accurate because physical processes rarely operate a perfectly symmetrical manner. An integrated approach, known as geographic plume analysis, accounts for directional biases distribution of hazards by using chemical dispersion model to identify areas that likely exposed toxic releases. In this paper we implement, evaluate, and compare plume-based approaches...

To assess the environmental justice implications of flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Greater Houston, Texas, we analyzed whether areal extent was distributed inequitably with respect to race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, after controlling for relevant explanatory factors.Our study integrated cartographic information Harvey's Inundation Footprint, developed by US Federal Emergency Management Agency, sociodemographic data 2012-2016 American Community Survey. Statistical analyses were...

Although environmental justice (EJ) research in the United States has traditionally focused on technological hazards such as air pollution or hazardous waste, adverse and unequal impacts of Hurricane Katrina have prompted researchers to examine EJ implications natural events hurricanes floods. This paper contributes this emerging literature social vulnerability by analyzing racial/ethnic socioeconomic inequities distribution flood risk exposure Miami Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA),...

Heat waves are the most significant cause of mortality in US compared to other natural hazards. Prior studies have found increased heat exposure for individuals lower socioeconomic status several cities, but few comparative analyses social distribution urban been conducted. To address this gap, our paper examines and compares environmental justice consequences risk three largest cities: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago. Risk is estimated on basis characteristics thermal landscape: land...

Few environmental justice studies of air pollution have examined the adverse health implications exposure to transportation-related emissions or used statistical techniques that are appropriate for spatial data. This article addresses these gaps by examining distribution cancer and respiratory risks from inhalation vehicular hazardous pollutants in Tampa Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area, Florida. study advances quantitative research (a) focusing on mobile source instead major point sources;...

A combination of the urban heat island effect and a rising temperature baseline resulting from global climate change inequitably impacts socially vulnerable populations residing in areas. This article examines racial/ethnic socioeconomic inequities spatial distribution exposure to context justice residential segregation U.S. An risk index (UHRI) is calculated measures land surface temperature, structural density, vegetation abundance, acquired summer 2010 remote sensing imagery. Twenty...

Abstract This article demonstrates how the Lorenz Curve and Gini coefficient can be used to measure inequalities in home personal computer (PC) ownership United States at national, regional, state levels. Our empirical investigation, based on supplemental data from Current Population Survey of U.S. Census, indicates that income are substantially smaller within white households owning a PC than African American households, all geographic scales. While among owners (households) have decreased...

This paper reports findings from a study of maternal mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh during the 1976-85 period. The employed multiple-step procedure to identify maternity-related deaths all reproductive-aged women within area this A total 387 were identified, resulting an overall ratio 5.5 per 1,000 live births. introduction family planning program half Matlab led moderate but significant reduction rates, relative comparison area. appears have been primarily due number pregnancies treatment...

This paper addresses the environmental justice implications of children's health by exploring racial/ethnic disparities in potential exposure to air pollution, based on both school and home locations children three different types pollution sources, Orange County, Florida, USA.Using geocoded residence 151 709 enrolled public system, distribution functions proximity nearest source are generated for each type order compare white, Hispanic, black children. Discrete buffer distances utilised...

Recent environmental justice (EJ) research has emphasized the need to analyze social inequities in distribution of natural hazards such as hurricanes and floods, examine intra-ethnic diversity patterns EJ. This study contributes emerging EJ scholarship on exposure flooding ethnic heterogeneity by analyzing racial/ethnic socioeconomic characteristics population residing within coastal inland flood risk zones Miami Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), Florida—one most ethnically diverse MSAs...

Environmental justice (EJ) research has relied on ecological analyses of coarse-scale areal units to determine whether particular populations are disproportionately burdened by toxic risks. This article advances quantitative EJ (1) examining statistical associations found for geographic translate relationships at the household level; (2) testing competing explanations distributional injustices never before investigated; (3) adverse health implications hazardous air pollutant (HAP) exposures;...

The combined effects of two global trends, urbanization and climate change, have generated considerable concern regarding their adverse disproportionate impacts on the health urban populations. This study contributes to climate‐justice research by determining whether elevated levels heat, indicated land surface temperature (), are distributed inequitably with respect race/ethnicity, age, socioeconomic status in Pinellas County, Florida. Our utilizes 2010 Landsat medium‐resolution, remotely...

Although numerous studies have been conducted on the vulnerability of marginalized groups in environmental justice (EJ) and hazards fields, analysts tended to lump people together broad racial/ethnic categories without regard for substantial within-group heterogeneity. This paper addresses that limitation by examining whether Hispanic immigrants are disproportionately exposed risks from flood relative other (including US-born Hispanics), adjusting relevant covariates. Survey data were...

While environmental justice (EJ) research in the United States has focused primarily on social distribution of chronic pollution risks, previous empirical studies have not analyzed disparities exposure to both (long‐term) and acute (short‐term) same study area. Our article addresses this limitation though a case that compares inequities risks Greater Houston Metropolitan Statistical Area, Texas. The integrates estimates cancer risk associated with ambient hazardous air pollutants from...