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1 Current Res. J. Soc. Sci. & Human. 1 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/crjssh1 and id is 1 raw text is: Vol. 01, No. (1) 2018, Pg.01-12 Current Research Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Journal Website: journalofsocialsciences.org Spatial Environmental Inequality in Lubbock, Texas JASON M. POST', PERRY L. CARTER2* and CYNTHIA L. SORRENSEN' 'Department of Geographic Information Technology, Navajo Technical University. 2Department of Geography, Texas Tech University. 3Independent Scholar. Abstract Environmental inequality assumes a near proximity of environmental health hazards, hazardous waste processing and releasing facilities to minority and low-income communities. Research in environmental inequality and environment justice over the past twenty years suggests that hazardous waste facilities are often located near minority and low-income neighborhoods. We conducted a study evaluating and quantifying environmental inequality in Lubbock County Texas. Our study analyzed both spatial and statistical relationships between population demographics and spatial proximity to hazardous waste releasing facilities. Hazardous waste facility data used in the study were collected from the Environmental Protection Agency's Toxic Release Inventory (TRI). Population statistics from the U.S. Census comprise the demographic data for this analysis. Spatial regression models were estimated to evaluate the relationship between distance from TRI sites and neighborhood/census block group demographics. A statistically significant relationship with proximity to hazardous waste facilities was found in communities having significant minority populations. Introduction The issue of environmental inequality has sparked a high volume of research since the late 1980s. Factories, waste sites, intermodal rail yards and chemical processing plants are examples of facilities that pose a health risk to local residents due to the hazardous materials processed and stored Article History Received: 2 August 2018 Accepted: 27 September 2018 Keywords Environment, Ethnicity, Hazard, Inequality, Race, Toxic. there. Many such facilities have historically been located in industrial zones adjacent to or occupied by low-income communities.1,2 When low-income and high minority concentrations overlap with exposure to hazardous waste this situation has been termed environmental inequality.3,4,5 CONTACT Perry L. Carter * perry.carter@ttu.edu 9 MS 1053, Science Building 125, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1053, USA. @ 2018 The Author(s). Published by Enviro Research Publishers. This is an 6 Open Access article licensed under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY). Doi: http://dx.doi.org/l0.12944/CRJSSH.1.1.01

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