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Linking Industrial Hazards and Social Inequalities: Environmental Injustice in Gujarat, India
Industrial development in India has rarely been studied through the perspective of environmental justice (EJ) such that the association between industrial development and significant economic and social inequalities remains to be examined. Our article addresses this gap by focusing on Gujarat in wes...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6339083/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30585190 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16010042 |
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author | Chakraborty, Jayajit Basu, Pratyusha |
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description | Industrial development in India has rarely been studied through the perspective of environmental justice (EJ) such that the association between industrial development and significant economic and social inequalities remains to be examined. Our article addresses this gap by focusing on Gujarat in western India, a leading industrial state that exemplifies the designation of India as an “emerging economy.” We link the geographic concentration of industrial facilities classified as major accident hazard (MAH) units, further subdivided by size (large or medium/small) and ownership (public or private), to the socio-demographic composition of the population at the subdistrict (taluka) level. Generalized estimating equations (GEEs) are used to analyze statistical associations between MAH unit density and explanatory variables related to the economic and social status of the residential population at the subdistrict level. Our results indicate a significant relationship between presence of socially disadvantaged populations (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) and density of all types of MAH units, except those associated with the public sector. Higher urbanization and lower home ownership are also found to be strong predictors of MAH unit density. Overall, our article represents an important step towards understanding the complexities of environmental inequalities stemming from Gujarat’s industrial economy. |
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spelling | pubmed-63390832019-01-23 Linking Industrial Hazards and Social Inequalities: Environmental Injustice in Gujarat, India Chakraborty, Jayajit Basu, Pratyusha Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Industrial development in India has rarely been studied through the perspective of environmental justice (EJ) such that the association between industrial development and significant economic and social inequalities remains to be examined. Our article addresses this gap by focusing on Gujarat in western India, a leading industrial state that exemplifies the designation of India as an “emerging economy.” We link the geographic concentration of industrial facilities classified as major accident hazard (MAH) units, further subdivided by size (large or medium/small) and ownership (public or private), to the socio-demographic composition of the population at the subdistrict (taluka) level. Generalized estimating equations (GEEs) are used to analyze statistical associations between MAH unit density and explanatory variables related to the economic and social status of the residential population at the subdistrict level. Our results indicate a significant relationship between presence of socially disadvantaged populations (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) and density of all types of MAH units, except those associated with the public sector. Higher urbanization and lower home ownership are also found to be strong predictors of MAH unit density. Overall, our article represents an important step towards understanding the complexities of environmental inequalities stemming from Gujarat’s industrial economy. MDPI 2018-12-25 2019-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6339083/ /pubmed/30585190 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16010042 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Chakraborty, Jayajit Basu, Pratyusha Linking Industrial Hazards and Social Inequalities: Environmental Injustice in Gujarat, India |
title | Linking Industrial Hazards and Social Inequalities: Environmental Injustice in Gujarat, India |
title_full | Linking Industrial Hazards and Social Inequalities: Environmental Injustice in Gujarat, India |
title_fullStr | Linking Industrial Hazards and Social Inequalities: Environmental Injustice in Gujarat, India |
title_full_unstemmed | Linking Industrial Hazards and Social Inequalities: Environmental Injustice in Gujarat, India |
title_short | Linking Industrial Hazards and Social Inequalities: Environmental Injustice in Gujarat, India |
title_sort | linking industrial hazards and social inequalities: environmental injustice in gujarat, india |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6339083/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30585190 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16010042 |
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