A Case Study on Assessment of Environmental Justice using GIS in Franklin County, Ohio, USA

Environmental justice is a growing concern in the United States. This study an attempt to assess if fairness exists when it comes population of Franklin County concerning location industries based on environmental laws. Industries are taken into consideration and areas surrounding using tools geographic information systems (GIS). concentrates as one most populated counties Ohio 2019. Eleven major cities industrial facilities selected County. A 4-mile buffer zone considered around each city ArcGIS find number them. Pollution gauged with count zones. assumes that directly proportional pollution. Minority low-income data extracted from US Census Bureau. The minorities populations found ArcMap. income brackets compared extent same zone. Statistical analysis performed samples correlation between Justice. Another created 14-mile radius (with centroid center) EJSCREEN version 2019 compare indicators demographic NAAQs standard pollutants. comparative evaluate results. results indicate there no significant minority approach can apply any small such counties, zip codes, census tracts justice.