Download or read book Two Case Studies of the Spatial Relationship Between Environmental Risks and Population Groups in Seattle written by Seattle (Wash.). Planning Department and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Risks in Seattle written by Seattle Environmental Priorities Project. Technical Advisory Committee and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Examining the Spatial Distribution of Park Access and Trajectories of Gentrification in Seattle Washington 1990 2010 written by Candice Michelle Weems and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the spatial distribution of park access by type in relation to trajectories of gentrification in Seattle from 1990 to 2010. The dissertation includes 5 Chapters. The first chapter provides an overview of the literature that motivated this research. The second, third and fourth chapters are research papers that seek to address the overall question: What is the relationship between park access and trajectories of gentrification? Chapter 5 is an overall conclusion. This study tests how the urban parks, shape the communities around them and focuses on three main objectives: (1) To gain a better understanding of socioeconomic and racial factors that are associated with gentrification in Seattle, Washington, (2) To develop a transferrable approach for assessing trajectories of gentrification in urban areas, and (3) To determine how the spatial distribution of different park types and community investment in parks are associated with gentrification. The research is motivated by the environmental justice literature and seeks to explore issues as they affect where people live and how they interact with parks in a large urban area. Little is known about how environmental amenities such as parks interact with socio-economic and racial characteristics of neighborhoods over time. Chapter 2 , examined the relationships among park system development over time, park typologies, and socio-economic and racial patterns, in order to understand how park system evolution is related to environmental justice. The results suggest that park access differed among socio-economic groups, and by park type. Significantly greater proportions of African Americans and Asians were found in census block groups with below-median levels of education, income, and home value, which in turn had access to significantly larger numbers and more area of recreation parks. In contrast, census block groups with above-median income, home value and education, which had significantly fewer minorities, had access to greater numbers and more area of natural passive and multiuse natural parks. The patterns did not change much over the study period suggesting that park development had the effect of maintaining differences in park access. This work raises the question of whether investments in park improvements led or followed the changes in educational attainment, home value, and income, suggesting that further work is needed to test hypotheses of environmental gentrification in Seattle. Chapter 3, used available digital spatial data including census data as well as spatially explicit mixed media coverage to map gentrification in order to test hypotheses about causes and consequences of the process. Gentrification was defined as change from below to above the median value for education, income, and home value in a census block group over the period 1990 to 2000 or 2000 to 2010. These patterns were compared to changes in proportions of minorities and perceptions of gentrification in the media over those time periods. Gentrification was clustered in central, north and west Seattle. In Central Seattle these changes were accompanied by large declines in the proportion of African Americans in the population. However, gentrification in terms of education, income, and home value also occurred in areas that did not have large proportions of minorities. Media perceptions of gentrification were reported in places that met the definition of gentrification, but also in areas experiencing changes in minorities, but which did not yet meet the definition of change in terms of education, home value, and income. The findings of this study suggest that gentrification is multifaceted, multidimensional and spatially contagious process that does not always lead to displacement of minorities. More work is needed to understand the causes of gentrification especially with regard to the role of urban parks. Chapter 4 examined the relationships between spatial patterns of change and investment in urban parks and processes of gentrification overtime. A spatial analysis was conducted using GIS to test relationships between changes in socioeconomic characteristics and changes in parks from 1990 to 2010. Changes in access to three different park types (recreation, natural passive, and multiuse natural) were compared to changes in socioeconomic characteristics from 1990 to 2000 and 2000 to 2010. Spatial data on community-initiated investment in parks were also compared to spatial patterns of change in park access and socioeconomic characteristics. The results suggest that gentrification was associated with locations where the number and acreage of recreational and natural passive parks increased from 1990 to 2000, and where high levels of park investment had occurred from 2000 to 2010. Therefore, changes in park access and investment influence the character of neighborhoods over time. The results also showed that moderate and low values of park investment were less associated with gentrification. The findings ultimately contribute to the understanding of resilience of a community and the capacity to absorb changes without being pushed into a gentrified regime. Lastly, Chapter 5 provides an overall conclusion to this dissertation and provides suggestions for future research.
Download or read book Environmental Risk in Seattle written by Seattle (Wash.). Planning Department and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
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Download or read book Introduction to Environmental Toxicology written by Wayne Landis and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After fifteen years and three editions, Introduction to Environmental Toxicology: Molecular Substructures to Ecological Landscapes has become a standard that defines the field of environmental toxicology, and the fourth edition is no exception. The authors take an integrated approach to environmental toxicology that emphasizes scale and context as important factors in understanding effects and management options. New in the Fourth Edition: New author, Dr. Ruth M. Sofield 8-page color insert New chapter on fate and transport of contaminants Emphasis on the use of all types of models in understanding how nature works Revised sections on synergy and atrazine toxicity Updated coverage of the analysis of impacts to populations, communities and ecosystems Enlarged risk assessment chapter with an in-depth description of a regional scale risk assessment This edition benefits from the insight of a new author, Dr. Ruth M. Sofield, who prepared the new chapter on the fate and transport of contaminants. The relationship between structure and toxicological properties has been a major theme of this book since its inception and this new chapter expands this fundamental concept to include fate and transport. In the early chapters the use of models in science is discussed and this theme carries throughout the rest of the book. So much has changed in the fifteen years since the publication of the first edition. The mid-1990s seem so long ago, when our understanding of environmental toxicology was very basic. Ecological risk assessment was in its very early stages and the consideration of the effects of toxicants on landscapes was only beginning. Computation was still hard, genes stayed put, and it was only becoming recognized that xenobiotics could have hormonal effects — developments that are taken for granted in this edition. Written by authors who teach this subject, a feature that is reflected in their straightforward style, the book provides a foundation for understanding environmental toxicology and its application.
Download or read book Environmental Health Perspectives written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Handbook of Spatial Epidemiology written by Andrew B. Lawson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Spatial Epidemiology explains how to model epidemiological problems and improve inference about disease etiology from a geographical perspective. Top epidemiologists, geographers, and statisticians share interdisciplinary viewpoints on analyzing spatial data and space-time variations in disease incidences. These analyses can provide imp
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Download or read book The Environmental Implications of Population Dynamics written by Lori M. Hunter and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report discusses the relationship between population and environmental change, the forces that mediate this relationship, and how population dynamics specifically affect climate change and land-use change.
Download or read book Comprehensive Remote Sensing written by Shunlin Liang and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 3183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive Remote Sensing, Nine Volume Set covers all aspects of the topic, with each volume edited by well-known scientists and contributed to by frontier researchers. It is a comprehensive resource that will benefit both students and researchers who want to further their understanding in this discipline. The field of remote sensing has quadrupled in size in the past two decades, and increasingly draws in individuals working in a diverse set of disciplines ranging from geographers, oceanographers, and meteorologists, to physicists and computer scientists. Researchers from a variety of backgrounds are now accessing remote sensing data, creating an urgent need for a one-stop reference work that can comprehensively document the development of remote sensing, from the basic principles, modeling and practical algorithms, to various applications. Fully comprehensive coverage of this rapidly growing discipline, giving readers a detailed overview of all aspects of Remote Sensing principles and applications Contains ‘Layered content’, with each article beginning with the basics and then moving on to more complex concepts Ideal for advanced undergraduates and academic researchers Includes case studies that illustrate the practical application of remote sensing principles, further enhancing understanding
Download or read book Handbook of Economic Geography written by Dr. Sanjay Kumar and published by K.K. Publications. This book was released on 2021-09-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic geography has taken a variety of approaches to many different subject matters, including but not limited to the location of industries, economies of agglomeration (also known as “linkages”), transportation, international trade, economic development, real estate, gentrification, ethnic economies, gendered economies, core-periphery theory, the economics of urban form, the relationship between the environment and the economy, and globalization. The subject matter investigated is strongly influenced by the researcher’s methodological approach. Neoclassical location theorists, following in the tradition of Alfred Weber, tend to focus on industrial location and use quantitative methods. Economists such as Paul Krugman and Jeffrey Sachs have also analyzed many traits related to economic geography. Krugman has gone so far as to call his application of spatial thinking to international trade theory the “new economic geography”, which directly competes with an approach within the discipline of geography that is also called “new economic geography”. The name geographical economics has been suggested as an alternative. Various factors, events, conditions, occurrences and constituents of geography have a tremendous bearing on the distribution of resources resulting in a wide disparity in the level of economic activity in the nation or region concerned. Such differences impact no production, manufacturing and resource utilisation capacity of the nations. Each and every such factor has been dealt with in the present book. Contents: • Introduction • Location of Economic Activities and Spatial Organization of Economies • Classification of Economies • Sectors of Economy: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and Quaternary • Natural Resources: Renewable and Non-renewable • Measurement of Agricultural Productivity and Efficiency • Crop Combination and Diversification • Von Thunen’s Model • Classification of Industries • Weber’s and Losch’s Approaches • Resource-Based and Footloose Industries • Models of Transportation and Transport Cost: Accessibility and Connectivity
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