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HazMatMapper: an online and interactive geographic visualization tool for exploring transnational flows of hazardous waste and environmental justice

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  • Eric Nost
  • Heather Rosenfeld
  • Kristen Vincent
  • Sarah A. Moore
  • Robert E. Roth

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HazMatMapper is an online and interactive geographic visualization tool designed to facilitate exploration of transnational flows of hazardous waste in North America (http://geography.wisc.edu/hazardouswaste/map/). While conventional narratives suggest that wealthier countries such as Canada and the United States (US) export waste to poorer countries like Mexico, little is known about how waste trading may affect specific sites within any of the three countries. To move beyond anecdotal discussions and national aggregates, we assembled a novel geographic dataset describing transnational hazardous waste shipments from 2007 to 2012 through two Freedom of Information Act requests for documents held by the US Environmental Protection Agency. While not yet detailing all of the transnational hazardous waste trade in North America, HazMatMapper supports multiscale and site-specific visual exploration of US imports of hazardous waste from Canada and Mexico. It thus enables academic researchers, waste regulators, and the general public to generate hypotheses on regional clustering, transnational corporate structuring, and environmental justice concerns, as well as to understand the limitations of existing regulatory data collection itself. Here, we discuss the dataset and design process behind HazMatMapper and demonstrate its utility for understanding the transnational hazardous waste trade.

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  • Eric Nost & Heather Rosenfeld & Kristen Vincent & Sarah A. Moore & Robert E. Roth, 2017. "HazMatMapper: an online and interactive geographic visualization tool for exploring transnational flows of hazardous waste and environmental justice," Journal of Maps, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(1), pages 14-23, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tjomxx:v:13:y:2017:i:1:p:14-23
    DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2017.1282384
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    1. Kristen Vincent & Robert E Roth & Sarah A Moore & Qunying Huang & Nick Lally & Carl M Sack & Eric Nost & Heather Rosenfeld, 2019. "Improving spatial decision making using interactive maps: An empirical study on interface complexity and decision complexity in the North American hazardous waste trade," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 46(9), pages 1706-1723, November.
    2. Sarah A Moore & Heather Rosenfeld & Eric Nost & Kristen Vincent & Robert E Roth, 2018. "Undermining methodological nationalism: Cosmopolitan analysis and visualization of the North American hazardous waste trade," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 50(8), pages 1558-1579, November.

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