From Yardstick to Gyroscope -
Interdisciplinary Methods for the Long-Term Study of Social-Ecological Systems
Environment Justice & Historical Geography: Demography, cartography, legal records, and spatial modeling
Instructor - Christopher Boone
Date - January 14, 2007

Boone, C. G. (2002). "An assessment and explanation of environmental inequity in Baltimore." Urban Geography 23(6): 581-595. Publication

In Baltimore, census tracts made up of White, working-class people are more likely to contain a Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facility than primarily Black census tracts. Differences in race characteristics decrease with larger units of analysis and with the use of half-mile buffers around TRI sites. At the census-tract level, race is the most significant population characteristic, followed by income and education. A long history of residential and occupational segregation may explain the proximity of toxic-release sites to working-class White neighborhoods.


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