title: Environmental justice in a French industrial region: are polluting industrial facilities equally distributed?
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: CNRS No. 6249 Chrono-Environment, Besançon, France. jean-francois.viel@univ-fcomte.fr
authors.forename: Jean-François
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Viel
authors.forename: Mathieu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hägi
authors.forename: Erika
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Upegui
authors.forename: Lucie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Laurian
mesh_terms: D000397:Air Pollution / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D015386:Hazardous Substances / Q000009:adverse effects; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011156:Population Density; D012935:Social Justice / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014876:Water Pollution / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
chemical_list: D015386:Hazardous Substances