HazMatMapper: an online and interactive geographic visualization tool for exploring transnational flows of hazardous waste and environmental justice
| Autor: | Robert E. Roth, Sarah A. Moore, Kristen Vincent, Heather Rosenfeld, Eric Nost |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Freedom of information
Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 02 engineering and technology scale Hazardous waste Environmental protection transnational flows lcsh:G3180-9980 Agency (sociology) Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) web mapping environmental justice Environmental planning Environmental justice lcsh:Maps 05 social sciences 021107 urban & regional planning 16. Peace & justice interactive cartography Geography Scale (social sciences) Geovisualization Web mapping 050703 geography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Maps, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 14-23 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 1744-5647 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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