Scales of environmental justice: combining GIS and spatial analysis for air toxics in West Oakland, California.
This paper examines the spatial point pattern of industrial toxic substances and the associated environmental justice implications in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA. Using a spatial analysis method called Ripley's K we assess environmental justice across multiple spatial scales, and we verify and quantify the West Oakland neighborhood as an environmental justice site as designated by the US Environmental Protection Agency. Further, we integrate the ISCST3 air dispersion model with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to identify the number of people potentially affected by a particular facility, and engage the problem of non-point sources of diesel emissions with an analysis of the street network.
Fisher
Joshua B
JB
Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California at Berkeley, 137 Mulford Hall, #3114, Berkeley, CA 94720-3114, USA. jfisher@nature.berleley.edu
Kelly
Maggi
M
Romm
Jeff
J
D000397:Air Pollution / Q000032:analysis*; D003710:Demography; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D012495:San Francisco; D012935:Social Justice