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DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/aad295 |
Environmental justice analyses may hide inequalities in Indigenous people's exposure to lead in Mount Isa, Queensland | |
Cooper, Nathan1,2,4; Green, Donna1,2,4; Sullivan, Marianne3; Cohen, David4 | |
2018-08-01 | |
发表期刊 | ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
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ISSN | 1748-9326 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 13期号:8 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Australia; USA |
英文摘要 | Distributive environmental justice studies frequently identify how ethnicminorities and communities of low socio-economic status (SES) are disproportionately likely to live in areas with an elevated risk of exposure to pollution. Few distributive justice studies have been conducted in Australia to explore whether this relationship is relevant to rural mining communities. In the remote mining city of Mount Isa, studies have found higher geometric mean blood lead levels (BLLs) among Indigenous children compared to non-Indigenous children. However, there is a lack of recent BLL data to determine conclusively if Indigenous children in Mount Isa are disproportionately exposed to lead pollution. We employed a common distributive environmental justice analysis approach to determine if Indigenous residents are disproportionately likely to live in areas with elevated soil lead concentrations. We analysed soil samples from 49 of 51 census areas at the Statistical Area 1 (SA1) level and measured the statistical correlation between soil lead concentration and the percentage of residents living in each SA1 who were of Indigenous status using Kendall's tau and linear regression. We found little evidence of an association between soil lead concentration and either Indigenous status or SES, indicating that Indigenous and low-SES residents are not disproportionately likely to live in areas with elevated concentrations of soil lead. The results of this study, along with prior research on mining emissions and housing quality in Mount Isa, indicate that elevated BLLs among Indigenous children may be due to low-SES increasing the risk of exposure as a result of lower quality housing. Actions by governing and mining bodies to address children's elevated BLLs in Mount Isa should give greater attention to risk factors related to SES. Furthermore, distributive environmental justice research must account for disparities in exposure which are not the result of disproportionate proximity to polluting sources. |
英文关键词 | environmental justice Australia Mount Isa lead Indigenous soil analysis GIS |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000439654700002 |
WOS关键词 | BLOOD LEAD ; SOIL LEAD ; NEW-ORLEANS ; METAL CONCENTRATION ; PUBLIC-HEALTH ; PARTICLE-SIZE ; CHILDREN ; COMMUNITY ; AUSTRALIA ; DUST |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/35418 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ New South Wales, Climate Change Res Ctr, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia; 2.Univ New South Wales, ARC Ctr Excellence Climate Extremes, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia; 3.William Paterson Univ, Dept Publ Hlth, Wayne, NJ 07470 USA; 4.Univ New South Wales, Sch Biol Earth & Environm Sci, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Cooper, Nathan,Green, Donna,Sullivan, Marianne,et al. Environmental justice analyses may hide inequalities in Indigenous people's exposure to lead in Mount Isa, Queensland[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2018,13(8). |
APA | Cooper, Nathan,Green, Donna,Sullivan, Marianne,&Cohen, David.(2018).Environmental justice analyses may hide inequalities in Indigenous people's exposure to lead in Mount Isa, Queensland.ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,13(8). |
MLA | Cooper, Nathan,et al."Environmental justice analyses may hide inequalities in Indigenous people's exposure to lead in Mount Isa, Queensland".ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS 13.8(2018). |
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