Toxic Waste and Race in Twenty-First Century America

IF 3.1 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environment and Society-Advances in Research Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI:10.3167/ares.2021.120107

Michael Mascarenhas, Ryken Grattet, Kathleen Mege

引用次数: 13

Abstract

In 1987, the United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice released its groundbreaking study, Toxic Waste and Race in the United States. The report found race to be the most significant predictor of where hazardous waste facilities were located in the United States. We review this and other studies of environmental racism in an effort to explain the relationship between race and the proximity to hazardous waste facilities. More recent research provides some evidence that the effect is causal, where polluting industries follow the path of least resistance. To date, the published work using Census data ends in 2000, which neglects the period when economic and political changes may have worsened the relationship between race and toxic exposure. Thus, we replicate findings using data from 2010 to show that racial disparities remain persistent in 2010. We conclude with a call for further research on how race and siting have changed during the 2010s.

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21世纪美国的有毒废物和种族问题

1987年，美国基督教联合教会种族正义委员会发布了开创性的研究报告《美国的有毒废物和种族》。该报告发现，种族是美国危险废物设施所在地最重要的预测因素。我们回顾了这一研究和其他关于环境种族主义的研究，试图解释种族与接近危险废物设施之间的关系。最近的一些研究提供了一些证据，证明这种影响是因果关系，因为污染工业走的是阻力最小的道路。迄今为止，使用人口普查数据的出版工作截止到2000年，忽略了经济和政治变化可能恶化种族与有毒物质暴露之间关系的时期。因此，我们使用2010年的数据来重复研究结果，表明种族差异在2010年仍然存在。最后，我们呼吁进一步研究种族和选址在2010年代是如何变化的。

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Environment and Society-Advances in Research ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

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2.30

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审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Environment and Society: Advances in Research is an annual review journal, publishing articles that have been commissioned in response to specific published calls.The field of research on environment and society is growing rapidly and becoming of ever-greater importance not only in academia but also in policy circles and for the public at large. This growth reflects the urgency of debate and the pace and scale of change with respect to the water crisis, deforestation, biodiversity loss, the looming energy crisis, nascent resource wars, environmental refugees, climate change, and environmental justice, which are just some of the many compelling challenges facing society today and in the future. It also reflects the richness and insights of scholarship exploring diverse cultural forms, social phenomena, and political-economic formations in which society and nature are intricately intertwined, if not indistinguishable. As a forum to address these issues, we are delighted to present an important peer-reviewed annual: Environment and Society: Advances in Research. Through this journal we hope to stimulate advanced research and action on these and other critical issues and encourage international communication and exchange among all relevant disciplines. Environment and Society publishes critical reviews of the latest research literature on environmental studies, including subjects of theoretical, methodological, substantive, and applied significance. Articles also survey the literature regionally and thematically and reflect the work of anthropologists, geographers, environmental scientists, and human ecologists from all parts of the world in order to internationalize the conversations within environmental anthropology, environmental geography, and other environmentally oriented social sciences. The publication will appeal to academic, research, and policy-making audiences alike.