The locality of waste sites within the city of Chicago: A demographic, social, and economic analysis

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-1-2002

Abstract

In 1987, the United Church of Christ (UCC) released Toxic Waste and Race in the United States: A National Report on the Racial and Socio-economic Characteristics of Communities with Hazardous Waste Sites (1987) which stimulated substantial research and activism concerning the disproportionate exposure of minorities to environmental hazards. The current study responds to many of the deficiencies of previous research by integrating the demographic history with an empirical analysis of the distribution of hazardous waste in major American industrial city. Two hypothesis are tested: (1) contemporaneous disproportionate exposure, and (2) discriminatory intent in waste siting decisions. Interestingly, there is evidence that Hispanics are disproportionately exposed, but there is not evidence of disproportionate exposure to the most dangerous hazards for African American either currently or historically. © 2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.

Identifier

0036474664 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Resource and Energy Economics

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0928-7655(01)00060-4

ISSN

09287655

First Page

53

Last Page

93

Issue

1-2

Volume

24

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