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  The Professional GeographerVolume 56 Issue 4, Pages 574 - 586 Published Online: 8 Nov 2004 © Copyright 2007 by Association of American Geographers
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 290K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Spatial Scale and Population Assignment Choices in Environmental Justice Analyses Copyright © Copyright 2004 by Association of American Geographers. KEYWORDS airport noise • environmental equity • environmental justice • geographic information systems • transportation externalities ABSTRACTEnvironmental justice laws protect certain populations against discriminatory actions that may result from a myriad of enterprises, including transportation activities. Previous environmental equity studies examining the effects of transportation-engendered externalities have been criticized on several points, including (1) that the choice of a reference population for comparison to the criterion variable may influence the outcome of research results and (2) that the selection and use of inappropriate methodologies intended to identify and characterize populations may foreordain research outcomes. This article examines the potentially confounding effects of selected spatial scale and population assignment strategies as applied to a study of excessive noise levels at a large Midwestern airport, finding that reported outcomes can vary significantly as a function of methodological choices. Initial submission, December 2002; revised submission, July 2003; final acceptance, January 2004 |  |
