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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"environmental equity"”.
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Inner-City Children and Environmental Equity: Evidence from Philadelphia
… to lessen this gap and provide incentives for environmental education programs, but poorer schools lack the funding to expand curriculum and improve or maintain playgrounds. Philadelphia's parks and recreation programs have tried to provide child playscapes to disadvantaged children and schools …
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Hazardous waste facilities and environmental equity : a proposed siting model
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1994.
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The Massachusetts lead poisoning prevention law : the environmental equity paradoxes
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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Environmental equity in southeast Louisiana: oil, people, policy, and the geography of industrial hazards
… petrochemical complex as they relate to environmental equity and industrial development’s deleterious consequences. Cumulative hazards models examine the distribution of technological hazards associated with petroleum extraction and processing and explores how this varies among different …
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Environmental Equity: Gradient Measures of Race and Social Class in the Areas Surrounding Pennsylvania Superfund Sites
… nearby. The results of the study suggest that environmental inequities are not prevalent in the areas surrounding Pennsylvania Superfund sites. Rather, the areas between 1.667 and 3.333 miles away from the sites were found to be significantly more affluent than all other areas in Pennsylvania. …
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A geographic information system (GIS) assisted approach for assessing environmental equity in the EPA RCRA program's site inspection selection process
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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Air pollution and health: distribution and determinants of exposure in Montreal, Quebec with a focus on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon assessment
… three thesis objectives: 1) to critically review environmental inequity research in Canada and methods used in previous studies; 2) to determine associations between socio-demographic factors and residential traffic exposure; and, 3) to assess correlations between two PAH biomarkers and their …
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Derelict to Dynamic: Examining Socioecological Productivity of Underutilized/Abandoned Industrial Infrastructure, and Application in Baltimore, Maryland
… Alert” Blue Water Baltimore, 2017). Impending environmental threats in the “Anthropocene” (Crutzen, 2004) and increased attention to societal injustices warrant heightened inclusivity of social and natural urban functions. Socioecological inequities are often highly conspicuous in declining …
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An environmental justice assessment of the light rail expansion in Denton County, Texas.
… approach was used to investigate potential environmental justice (EJ) consequences from the expansion of the transportation corridor. This study used empirical and historical evidence to identify and prioritize sites for potential EJ concerns. Citizen participation in the decision making …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
… I explore three important topics in environmental, urban, and labor economics. In Chapter 1, I quantify the long-term consequences of oil and gas extraction. Pennsylvania has a long history of oil and gas extraction. When the production period ends, many wells are left behind and some …