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DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/ab7393 |
Characterizing disproportionality in facility-level toxic releases in US manufacturing, 1998-2012 | |
Collins, M.1; Pulver, S.2; Hill, D.1; Manski, B.3 | |
2020-06-01 | |
发表期刊 | ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS |
ISSN | 1748-9326 |
出版年 | 2020 |
卷号 | 15期号:6 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
英文摘要 | The relationship between economic activity and environmental pollution is a topic of extensive research. Although a proportional relationship between the two is often the default assumption, emerging scholarship suggests that polluting releases are disproportionally distributed across units of production. This paper examines if proportionality or disproportionality best characterizes the production of toxic pollution in US manufacturing from 1998 to 2012. Examining US Environmental Protection Agency Toxics Release Inventory data from over 25 000 facilities in 322 industries, we find consistently high levels of disproportionality across facility-level toxic releases within industries, even when controlling for facility size. Moreover, high levels of within industry disproportionality are remarkably stable over the fifteen-year study period. In other words, year by year a small handful of egregiously polluting facilities account for the vast majority of toxic releases within a given industry. Our findings suggest that disproportionality should be understood as the default pattern of pollution generation rather than an exceptional case and that policymakers should seek to reduce pollution via carefully considered targeting strategies rather than broad-stroke decision making. |
英文关键词 | disproportionality US manufacturing industrial pollution |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000536102600001 |
WOS关键词 | POLLUTION ; POPULATION ; INEQUALITY ; RESOURCES ; EMISSIONS |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/279351 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.SUNY Coll Environm Sci & Forestry, Dept Environm Studies, Syracuse, NY 13210 USA; 2.Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Environm Studies Program, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA; 3.Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Sociol, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Collins, M.,Pulver, S.,Hill, D.,et al. Characterizing disproportionality in facility-level toxic releases in US manufacturing, 1998-2012[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2020,15(6). |
APA | Collins, M.,Pulver, S.,Hill, D.,&Manski, B..(2020).Characterizing disproportionality in facility-level toxic releases in US manufacturing, 1998-2012.ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,15(6). |
MLA | Collins, M.,et al."Characterizing disproportionality in facility-level toxic releases in US manufacturing, 1998-2012".ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS 15.6(2020). |
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