Environmental Justice: Do Poor and Minority Populations Face More Hazards?
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- Gray, Wayne B. & Shabegian, Ronald J. & Wolverton, Ann, 2010. "Environmental Justice: Do Poor and Minority Populations Face More Hazards?," National Center for Environmental Economics-NCEE Working Papers 280891, United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Keywords
environmental justice; regulatory activity; enforcement; political; poor; minority;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
- Q52 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects
- Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2010-10-09 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2010-10-09 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-REG-2010-10-09 (Regulation)
- NEP-URE-2010-10-09 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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