SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Brownfield Land
28 May 2019
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They found support for the sitting hypothesis disproportional exposure of minorities better than the move-in hypothesis. Areas undergoing racial transition are more vulnerable. Environmental policy or practice that disproportionality affects minorities. Disproportional exposure of minority communities to degraded environment, environmental hazards. Areas w/higher pct of minorities have higher concentration of hazardous air pollution. Minorities are more likely to live in areas with abandoned toxic waste sites. Most brownfields are located in or near minority communities. Minorities are more likely to live in environment // People of color are exposed to more air pollution than whites. Demographics of communities within 2. 5 miles of polluting refineries and factories. Blacks are explosed to 1. 54 more fine particulate matter. Hispanic us residents are exposed to 1. 2 times more fine particulate matter. In some states people of color were exposed to more than twice as much particulate pollutants as white ppl. Unequal exposure is a racial, not an economic issue.
