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"Every Breath You Take... ": The Demographics of Toxic Air Releases in Southern California

James L. Sadd

Occidental College

Manuel Pastor, Jr.

University of California, Santa Cruz

J. Thomas Boer

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Lori D. Snyder

Abt Associates

In this article, the authors investigate the relationship between ethnicity and potential environmental hazards in the metropolitan Los Angeles area. Using a variety of techniques, including geographic information systems (GIS) mapping, univariate comparisons, and logit, ordered logit, and tobit regression analysis, the authors find that, even controlling for other factors such as income and the extent of manufacturing employment and land use, minority residents tend to be disproportionately located in neighborhoods surrounding toxic air emissions. The results generally support the propositions of the proponents of "environmental justice"; in the conclusion, they consider what this might mean for urban land use and environmental policy.

Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 2, 107-123 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/089124249901300201
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