Environmental Equity: Statistical Issues - Report of A Forum (1994)

Preface:

On December 6, 1993, the National Institute of Statistical Sciences held a forum on "En­vironmental Equity: Statistical Issues" at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Environmental equity, or environmental justice, is concerned with questions raised by ev­idence that environmental hazards are faced disproportionately by low-income and racial minority communities. The Forum featured presentations by four prominent participants in the current national discourse on environmental justice. The talks covered the background and evidence for the concerns, the scientific issues involved, the legal questions posed and the role of statistical reasoning and information.