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Policy Alternatives in Adaptive Communities: Simulating the Environmental Justice Consequences of Hazardous Site Remediation Strategies Policy Alternatives in Adaptive Communities: Simulating the Environmental Justice Consequences of Hazardous Site Remediation Strategies
- Source :
- Review of Policy Research; May2013, Vol. 30 Issue 3, p281-301, 21p, 1 Black and White Photograph, 1 Diagram, 6 Charts, 2 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Many governments have implemented environmental justice mandates requiring agencies to consider the implications of cleanup decisions for poor and/or minority populations. To the extent that this mandate alters decisions, it usually does so by considering the composition of a community in the present without adjusting for potential demographic changes that may occur over time. However, communities change and these changes are likely to affect how well an agency meets its environmental justice mandate over the long term. In this research, an agent-based model is introduced to simulate how alternative environmental remediation scenarios may affect environmental justice outcomes in a dynamic residential environment with two demographic classes with preferences for living in proximity to neighbors similar to themselves. Under these circumstances, there is unlikely to be one best strategy to achieve both environmental improvement and environmental equity, and a focus on valuable land is the least effective over the long run. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1541132X
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Review of Policy Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 87709607
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12024