No Safe Place: Environmental Hazards &amp; Injustice along Mexico's Northern Border

Grineski, Sara E.; Collins, Timothy W.; Aguilar, María de Lourdes Romo; Aldouri, Raed

doi:10.1353/sof.2010.0036

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“…Mean education was used as the SES indicator as mean income was not available. It has been used in previous environmental justice studies in Juárez (Grineski et al 2010; McDonald and Grineski 2011) and other studies have demonstrated a strong relationship between income and education (Tejedo-Balzaretti 2008). …”

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Double exposure and the climate gap: changing demographics and extreme heat in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

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Scholars have recognized a climate gap, wherein poor communities face disproportionate impacts of climate change. Others have noted that climate change and economic globalization may mutually affect a region or social group, leading to double exposure. This paper investigates how current and changing patterns of neighborhood demographics are associated with extreme heat in the border city of Juárez, Mexico. Many Juárez neighborhoods are at-risk to triple exposures, in which residents suffer due to the conjoined effects of the global recession, drug war violence, and extreme heat. Due to impacts of the recession on maquiladora employment and the explosion of drug violence (since 2008), over 75% of neighborhoods experienced decreasing population density between 2000 and 2010 and the average neighborhood saw a 40% increase in the proportion of older adults. Neighborhoods with greater drops in population density and increases in the proportion of older residents over the decade are at significantly higher risk to extreme heat, as are neighborhoods with lower population density and lower levels of education. In this context, triple exposures are associated with a climate gap that most endangers lower socioeconomic status and increasingly older aged populations remaining in neighborhoods from which high proportions of residents have departed.

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“…Of most relevance to this case is Grineski et al (2010), who found that patterns of environmental injustice in Juárez are related in part to the connectedness of the specific hazard type to the global economy. Because maquiladoras operate on a transnational scale and are supported by foreign capital, they have a high degree of choice in terms of where to locate; local industries, not operating with as much capital, are more constrained in terms of where they can locate within the urban space economy.…”

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“…Several quantitative environmental justice studies have addressed patterns of environmental injustice along Mexico's northern border (Kopinak and Barajas 2002, Grineski and Collins 2008, Lara-Valencia et al 2009, Grineski et al 2010. Of most relevance to this case is Grineski et al (2010), who found that patterns of environmental injustice in Juárez are related in part to the connectedness of the specific hazard type to the global economy.…”

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“…Because maquiladoras operate on a transnational scale and are supported by foreign capital, they have a high degree of choice in terms of where to locate; local industries, not operating with as much capital, are more constrained in terms of where they can locate within the urban space economy. Grineski et al (2010) drew attention to the way that transnational economic actors like maquiladoras shape urban space. This paper builds off that focus on location and space by examining how a powerful maquiladora can manipulate labour, regulatory agencies, and local people to achieve its aims while enacting a form of violence on others.…”

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Structural violence and environmental injustice: the case of a US–Mexico border chemical plant

Morales¹,

Grineski²,

Collins³

2012

Local Environment

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“…647). A este respecto, es importante mencionar que en la vasta literatura conocida como "justicia medioambiental", se analiza la carga ambiental que deben soportar los pobres y los grupos minoritarios (Brulle y Pellow, 2006;Shriver y Webb, 2009, Grineski y otros, 2010. Estos grupos parecen desarrollar preocupación y conciencia ambiental en virtud de la desproporcionada carga de problemas ambientales que sufren en sus barrios (Mohai y Bryant, 1998) ante la ausencia de orientaciones de valor posmaterialista o vinculadas a la prosperidad.…”

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Percepción y preocupación ambiental en distintas regiones metropolitanas del Brasil: eslabones perdidos y evidencia adicional

Guedes¹,

Nawrotzki²,

Carmo³

2014

Notas De Población

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La revista Notas de Población es una publicación del Centro Latinoamericano y Caribeño deDemografía (CELADE)-División de Población de la CEPAL, cuyo propósito principal es la difusión de investigaciones y estudios de población sobre América Latina y el Caribe, aun cuando recibe con particular interés artículos de especialistas de fuera de la región y, en algunos casos, contribuciones que se refieren a otras regiones del mundo. Se publica dos veces al año, con una orientación interdisciplinaria, por lo que acoge tanto artículos sobre demografía propiamente tal como otros que aborden las relaciones entre las tendencias demográficas y los fenómenos económicos, sociales y biológicos. Las opiniones expresadas en esta revista son responsabilidad de los autores y pueden no coincidir con las del Centro Latinoamericano y Caribeño de Demografía (CELADE)-División de Población de la CEPAL. La revista Notas de Población está indizada en Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (CLASE) y en el Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal (LATINDEX). La autorización para reproducir total o parcialmente esta obra debe solicitarse al Secretario de la Junta de Publicaciones, Sede de las Naciones Unidas, Nueva York 10017, E+stados Unidos. Los Estados miembros y sus instituciones gubernamentales pueden reproducir esta obra sin autorización previa. Solo se les solicita que mencionen la fuente e informen a las Naciones Unidas de tal reproduccción. Consejo editorialEste número contó con el apoyo financiero parcial del Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas (UNFPA). ResumenEn este artículo se revisan los patrones de percepción y preocupación ambiental en distintas regiones metropolitanas del Brasil y la forma en que estos se ven influenciado por el nivel socioeconómico y las condiciones ambientales objetivas. En virtud de los resultados previos de Nawrotzki, Guedes y Carmo (2014), nos preguntamos si en la relación entre el nivel socioeconómico, las condiciones ambientales objetivas

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No Safe Place: Environmental Hazards & Injustice along Mexico's Northern Border

Cited by 25 publications

References 62 publications

Double exposure and the climate gap: changing demographics and extreme heat in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

Double exposure and the climate gap: changing demographics and extreme heat in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

Structural violence and environmental injustice: the case of a US–Mexico border chemical plant

Percepción y preocupación ambiental en distintas regiones metropolitanas del Brasil: eslabones perdidos y evidencia adicional

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