Linking ‘toxic outliers’ to environmental justice communities
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Linking ‘toxic outliers’ to environmental justice communities
Several key studies have found that a smallminority of producers, polluting at levels far exceeding group averages, generate themajority of overall exposure to industrial toxics. Frequently, such patterns go unnoticed and are understudied outside of the academic community. To our knowledge, no research to date has systematically described the scope and extent of extreme variations in industrial...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Research Letters
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1748-9326
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/1/015004