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HEALTH & PLACE
Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 257-262Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.10.007
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Deprivation; Environmental equality; Environmental justice; Foreign-born; Polluting industries; Spatial analysis
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Recent studies have suggested that minority or deprived groups are subject to the additional burden of a polluted living environment. Our goal is to determine whether such environmental inequalities occur in France's leading industrial region, using detailed socio-economic data and advanced Bayesian methods. Associations between proximity to hazardous facilities (i.e., within a 2 km radius) and the socio-economic characteristics of populations are analyzed at fine geographical scales. Noxious facilities are disproportionately located in higher foreign-born communities after controlling for deprivation (Townsend score), population density and rural/urban status. High deprivation also appears as a predictive factor, although less strongly and less consistently. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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