This chapter develops the concept of white privilege. It reviews how racism and space have
been conceptualized in the literature and the geography of urban environmental racism. The …

Destacando as relações entre os Estados nacionais e a produção dos mapas, Barbara
Lynch1 afirma que, como “discurso político a serviço do Estado”, os mapas foram …

Authoritative and comprehensive, this is the leading text and professional resource on using
geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze and address public health problems. Basic …

In this paper I explore the potential of using geographical information systems (GIS) in
qualitative research by disentangling the seemingly rigid association of the field of …

Over the last decade, a new research program has emerged at the interface between
geographic information science and geographical social theory, now called critical GIS. In …

Objective. Methodological issues associated with the conventional statistical approach to
environmental justice research, such as scale of analysis, continue to make assessments of …

Despite its relatively weak quantitative functionality, GIS is primarily associated with
statistical and quantitative spatial analysis. This creates a particular representation of GIS as …

Background Published studies of geocoding accuracy often focus on a single geographic
area, address source or vendor, do not adjust accuracy measures for address …

This paper examines the spatial point pattern of industrial toxic substances and the
associated environmental justice implications in the San Francisco Bay Area, California …

Using a national survey of facilities governed by the Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act (RCRA), we examine the sociospatial distribution of a much larger group of hazardous …