nmm 22 4500 ICPSR01260 MiAaI m f a u cr mn mmmmuuuu 130619s2002 miu f a eng d (MiAaI)ICPSR01260 MiAaI MiAaI Few and Far Between? [electronic resource] An Environmental Equity Analysis of the Geographic Distribution of Hazardous Waste Generation Mark Atlas 2002-08-13 Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 2002 ICPSR 1260 Numeric Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2013-06-19. AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public. Also available as downloadable files. This article examines whether the generation of hazardous waste is concentrated in communities that are disproportionately minority or low-income. While much environmental equity research has focused on commercial facilities managing hazardous waste, facilities that generate and manage their own wastes -- which account for over 98 percent of hazardous waste volume -- have been ignored. The demographic characteristics were determined of people in geographic concentric rings around hazardous waste generators accounting for most of the country's 1997 hazardous waste volume. The author's analyses indicate no tendency for disproportionately minority communities to be near these facilities. In fact, relatively few people are near the locations where most hazardous waste is generated. While a few of these facilities have large numbers of minority people around them, most are in areas with higher than average white populations. There was, however, a tendency for low-income communities to be near these facilities. To the extent that there are potential risks from the presence of hazardous waste at facilities, most of this risk is in relatively unpopulated areas. The presence of hazardous waste is not concentrated in areas that are disproportionately minority or low-income. Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01260.v1 communities icpsr environmental hazards icpsr geographic distribution icpsr hazardous waste icpsr ICPSR XVIII. ICPSR Publication-Related Archive Atlas, Mark Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR (Series) 1260 Access restricted ; authentication may be required: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01260.v1