Not in whose backyard Minority population concentrations and noxious facility sites

Conference · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:5779484

Nieves, L A

The NIMBY (not in may backyard) syndrome has become the nemesis of facility siting efforts in the USA. Given people's reluctance to live near noxious facilities, in whose backyard are such facilities located This study employs US county-level data to examine relative concentrations of minorities living near noxious facilities. Facility types analyzed include electric generating plants, manufacturing plants, Superfund sites, and radioactive waste disposal sites. While this study does not address which cam first, the minority population concentration or the noxious facilities, it documents their current degree of association.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 5779484
• Report Number(s): ANL/CP-75482; CONF-920260-2; ON: DE92009711
• Resource Relation: Conference: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting, Chicago, IL (United States), 7-11 Feb 1992
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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