Which came first, people or pollution? Assessing the disparate siting and post-siting demographic change hypotheses of environmental injustice
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Which came first, people or pollution? A review of theory and evidence from longitudinal environmental justice studies
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Research Letters
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1748-9326
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/11/115008