Not in whose backyard? : minority population concentrations and noxious facility sites.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1992Description: 13 pSubject: The NIMBY syndrome has become the nemesis of facility siting efforts in the U.S.A. Given people's reluctance to live near noxious facilities, in whose backyard are such facilities located? This study employs U.S. county-level data to examine relative concentrations of minorities living near noxious facilities. Facility types analysed include electric generating plants, manufacturing plants, Superfund sites, and radioactive waste disposal sites. While this study does not address which came first, the minority population concentration or the noxious facilities, it documents their current degree of association
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The NIMBY syndrome has become the nemesis of facility siting efforts in the U.S.A. Given people's reluctance to live near noxious facilities, in whose backyard are such facilities located? This study employs U.S. county-level data to examine relative concentrations of minorities living near noxious facilities. Facility types analysed include electric generating plants, manufacturing plants, Superfund sites, and radioactive waste disposal sites. While this study does not address which came first, the minority population concentration or the noxious facilities, it documents their current degree of association
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