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Like Watching A Brother Die: Environmental Racism In Bahia, Brazil, Meredith Main
Like Watching A Brother Die: Environmental Racism In Bahia, Brazil, Meredith Main
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Until the 1970s, small black fishing communities primarily populated Bahia’s north coast. A recent demand for luxury coastal real estate has radically altered the region’s social and environmental landscape. While Bahia’s population is roughly 80% poor and black, the coast is now a space of exclusivity and whiteness. Sewage infrastructure does not meet the needs of the growing population. Domestic sewage flows directly into urban rivers. Poor black fishers, whose food security and livelihoods depend on access to healthy water resources, suffer most in this context. This dissertation explores two interlinking forms of environmental racism – water pollution and racial …
Assessing The Relationship Between Hotspots Of Lead And Hotspots Of Crime, Kimberly L. Barrett
Assessing The Relationship Between Hotspots Of Lead And Hotspots Of Crime, Kimberly L. Barrett
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Numerous medical and environmental toxicology studies have established a link between lead (Pb) exposure, crime, and delinquency. In human environments, lead pollution- like crime- is unequally distributed, creating lead hot spots. In spite of this, studies of crime hotspots have routinely focused on traditional sociological predictors of crime, leaving environmental predictors of crime like lead and other neurotoxins relatively unaddressed. This study attends to this gap in the literature by asking a very straightforward research question: Is there a relationship between hotspots of lead and hotspots of crime? Furthermore, what is the nature and extent of this relationship? Lastly, is …