Measuring environmental inequality
| Autor: | James K. Boyce, Klara Zwickl, Michael Ash |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Economics and Econometrics
education.field_of_study Equity (economics) 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Horizontal and vertical Inequality business.industry Welfare economics media_common.quotation_subject Population Distribution (economics) 010501 environmental sciences Affect (psychology) 01 natural sciences Weighting Range (statistics) Economics Econometrics education business 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Ecological Economics. 124:114-123 |
| ISSN: | 0921-8009 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.01.014 |
| Popis: | This study presents alternative measures of environmental inequality in the 50 U.S. states for exposure to industrial air pollution. We examine three methodological issues. First, to what extent are environmental inequality measures sensitive to spatial scale and population weighting? Second, how do sensitivities to different segments of the overall distribution affect rankings by these measures? Third, how do vertical and horizontal (inter-group) inequality measures relate to each other? We find substantive differences in rankings by different measures and conclude that no single indicator is sufficient for addressing the entire range of equity concerns that are relevant to environmental policy; instead multiple measures are needed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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