Hot spots regulation and environmental justice

Selecting Data Analytic and Modeling Methods to Support Air Pollution and Environmental Justice Investigations: A Critical Review and Guidance Framework

“…Environmental justice studies can differ from other air quality research in many ways. Two of the most prominent ways may be the level of community interest and the diverse set of stakeholders that are concerned with the process and outcome of EJ studies. ,− As a result, EJ research often demands an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspective, which can strengthen the scholarship while also potentially leading to challenges such as misunderstandings due to language differences between disciplines and partners. − EJ researchers frequently identify the policy implications of their work, as demand for science-based policy has become more prevalent. , Interpretability, in this case the ability to distinguish what influences concentration estimates, can be more heavily emphasized in some EJ studies. − This highlights the complex relationship between the existence of environmental hazards, exposure, difficult to quantify environmental impacts, and socioeconomic dimensions within EJ scholarship. The need to identify vulnerable communities can seem to be in tension with taking care to avoid misrecognition or labeling a place as harmful or degraded, which may lead to the stigmatization of communities or unfair blaming of community residents .…”

“…70−73 EJ researchers frequently identify the policy implications of their work, as demand for science-based policy has become more prevalent. 58,74 Interpretability, in this case the ability to distinguish what influences concentration estimates, can be more heavily emphasized in some EJ studies. 75−78 This highlights the complex relationship between the existence of environmental hazards, exposure, difficult to quantify environmental impacts, and socioeconomic dimensions within EJ scholarship.…”

Taking the High Ground:FEMATrailer Siting after Hurricane Katrina

“…In North America, for example, scholars have regularly argued that minority populations, including African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans, are more likely than their white counterparts to receive a disproportionate burden of unwanted projects (Bullard ). The fields of environmental racism and environmental justice combine scholarly studies of siting procedures and outcomes with social activism on these issues (Turaga, Noonan, and Bostrom ; Walker and Burningham ). Previous research on trailer siting after Katrina has argued that race played a significant role in decision making, so that at zip‐code‐level African American communities were more likely to receive trailers than similar white areas (Davis and Bali ).…”