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Linking Environmental Justice And Pollution Prevention: Livable Communities And Cleaner Production, Robert Gottlieb
Linking Environmental Justice And Pollution Prevention: Livable Communities And Cleaner Production, Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb
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Regulatory Impact Analyses Of Environmental Justice Effects, Spencer Banzhaf
Regulatory Impact Analyses Of Environmental Justice Effects, Spencer Banzhaf
ECON Publications
Recently, the US EPA has pledged to incorporate environmental justice considerations "into the fabric" of its rulemaking procedures. But finding an appropriate way to incorporate environmental justice considerations into policy-making has been a procedural challenge since President Clinton issued Executive Order 12898 over 15 years ago. In particular, environmental justice concerns tend to be overshadowed by efficiency considerations as embodied in benefit-cost analysis. Yet at the same time, both Presidents Obama and Clinton have issued orders to incorporate distributional and equity considerations into benefit-cost analysis, as well as the standard efficiency considerations.
This article argues that the environmental justice and …
Park Access And Distributional Inequities In Pinellas County, Florida, Kyle Ray Hirvela
Park Access And Distributional Inequities In Pinellas County, Florida, Kyle Ray Hirvela
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Although environmental justice research has traditionally focused on environmental disamenities and health hazards, recent studies have begun to examine social inequities in the distribution of urban amenities such as street trees and parks that provide several direct and indirect health benefits to local residents. This thesis adds to this knowledge by evaluating distributional inequities in both distribution and access to parks in Pinellas County, the most densely populated and one of the most racially segregated counties in Florida. An important objective was to determine if neighborhoods with lower levels of park access are more likely to contain a significantly higher …