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Norton, Jennifer M.

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Environmental injustice, public health and solid waste facilities in North Carolina.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Environmental injustice, public health and solid waste facilities in North Carolina./
Author:	Norton, Jennifer M.
Description:	134 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Steve Wing.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-10B.
Subject:	Engineering, Civil. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3239186
ISBN:	9780542939457

Environmental injustice, public health and solid waste facilities in North Carolina.
Norton, Jennifer M.

Environmental injustice, public health and solid waste facilities in North Carolina. - 134 p.

Adviser: Steve Wing.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.

Community groups in North Carolina are concerned that solid waste facilities may be disproportionately located in non-white and low-wealth communities, that this represents an environmental injustice, and that solid waste facilities negatively impact the health of host communities. However, the relationship between environmental injustice and health has not been fully evaluated. A conceptual model was developed as a basis for exploring the relationships between environmental injustice, solid waste, and health. While this model includes health impacts associated with direct exposures to toxicants, the emphasis is on the indirect effects of solid waste facilities on health through their impacts on the built environment. This model was used to inform analyses that evaluated the prevalence and occurrence of solid waste facilities in non-white communities compared to white communities and low-wealth communities compared to high-wealth communities in North Carolina. Communities were defined as census block groups in order to obtain information on racial and economic characteristics. Information on solid waste facilities was obtained through a review of solid waste facility records maintained by the North Carolina Division of Waste Management. The results of these analyses suggest that on average in North Carolina, the prevalence of solid waste facilities in 2003 was greater in non-white communities (50 to 100% non-white) compared to white communities (<10% non-white) (adjusted prevalence odds ratio [adjPOR]: 2.8; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.9, 4.1); and low-wealth communities (median house values <

ISBN: 9780542939457Subjects--Topical Terms:

783781
Engineering, Civil.

Environmental injustice, public health and solid waste facilities in North Carolina.
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