Date of Award

4-2021

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Departmental Honors

Department

Wildland Resources

First Advisor

Mariya Shcheglovitova

Abstract

We aim to contribute to research on environmental racism by asking how relationships between race and hazard exposure change over time. We analyze American Community Survey (ACS) demographic data from 2010 and 2019 to determine whether census tracts with high densities of EPA environmental hazard sites have a growing, shrinking, or unchanging proportion of Latinx residents. We argue that racist planning practices effectively weave environmental racism into the fabric of cities and that cities with growing communities of color must consider how existing spatial patterns of segregation may perpetuate exposure to environmental harms.

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Honors Thesis:

https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/honors/699/

SLC HOLC Pollution Map:

https://rpubs.com/mshcheg/SLC-holc-pollution-map/

Poster presented at:

Jones E. N. and Shcheglovitova M. (2021). Environmental racism in a growing city: Investigating demographic shifts in Salt Lake City’s polluted neighborhoods. CAIR Conference on Inequality and Social Justice. Virtual. April 24 (Virtual Poster).

Jones E. N. and Shcheglovitova M. (2021). Environmental racism in a growing city: Investigating demographic shifts in Salt Lake City’s polluted neighborhoods. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Virtual. April 7-11 (Virtual Poster).

Related Blog Post:

https://community.utah.gov/redlining-housing-segregation-and-environmental-pollution-in-the-pioneer-park-neighborhood-and-beyond/

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