International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | |
Toxic Releases and Risk Disparity: A Spatiotemporal Model of Industrial Ecology and Social Empowerment | |
Hannah Aoyagi1  Oladele A. Ogunseitan1  | |
[1] School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA; E-Mail: | |
关键词: disparity; empowerment; environment; exposure; health; industry; model; pollution; spatial analysis; toxic chemicals; | |
DOI : 10.3390/ijerph120606300 | |
来源: mdpi | |
【 摘 要 】
Information-based regulations (IBRs) are founded on the theoretical premise that public participation in accomplishing policy goals is empowered by open access to information. Since its inception in 1988, the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) has provided the framework and regulatory impetus for the compilation and distribution of data on toxic releases associated with industrial development, following the tenets of IBR. As TRI emissions are reputed to disproportionately affect low-income communities, we investigated how demographic characteristics are related to
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