INVESTIGATING THE SCALES OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE THROUGH
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS FOR
AIR TOXICS IN WEST OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA (Fisher et al, 2006)
The paper under analysis characterizes the spatial point pattern of air toxics in the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designated Environmental Justice area of West Oak-land,
California. Integrating a GIS framework and an interdisciplinary statistical technique called Ripley’s
K-function, Fisher et al. verify the neighborhood as an environmental justice site across multiple
spatial scales, and by means of an air dispersion model, identify the number of people potentially
affected by a particular facility, and engage the problem of non-point sources of diesel emissions
with an analysis of the street network (Fisher, 2003; Fisher et al, 2006).
DATA SOURCES
The data used in this study was mainly obtained from two different sources:
1. US Census Bureau’s......
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