Environmental equity: Reducing risk for all communities. Volume 2. Supporting document
In targeting its protection efforts to reduce the most serious risks, the Agency has begun to examine how the patterns of environmental problems converge on different places, how the people who live in those places are affected, and how environmental programs should be refined to address identified differences. A community surrounded by Multiple sources of air pollution, ringed by waste treatment facilities and landfills, and whose residences contain lead-based paint clearly faces higher than average potential environmental risks. It is in this context that concerns have been raised about the relative risk burden borne by low-income and racial minority communities. Examination of these differences in risk burden and how government agencies respond is known as environmental equity. Although there are many types of equity, this report focuses on racial and socioeconomic equity.
- Research Organization:
- Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (United States). Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation
- OSTI ID:
- 71174
- Report Number(s):
- PB-95-213146/XAB; EPA-230/R-92/008A; TRN: 51702300
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: DN: See also PB--91-155234 and Volume 1, PB--95-182556; PBD: Jun 1992
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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