Environmental justice implications of industrial hazardous waste generation in India: a national scale analysis
While rising air and water pollution have become issues of widespread public concern in India, the relationship between spatial distribution of environmental pollution and social disadvantage has received less attention. This lack of attention becomes particularly relevant in the context of industri...
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| description | While rising air and water pollution have become issues of widespread public concern in India, the relationship between spatial distribution of environmental pollution and social disadvantage has received less attention. This lack of attention becomes particularly relevant in the context of industrial pollution, as India continues to pursue industrial development policies without sufficient regard to its adverse social impacts. This letter examines industrial pollution in India from an environmental justice (EJ) perspective by presenting a national scale study of social inequities in the distribution of industrial hazardous waste generation. Our analysis connects district-level data from the 2009 National Inventory of Hazardous Waste Generating Industries with variables representing urbanization, social disadvantage, and socioeconomic status from the 2011 Census of India. Our results indicate that more urbanized and densely populated districts with a higher proportion of socially and economically disadvantaged residents are significantly more likely to generate hazardous waste. The quantity of hazardous waste generated is significantly higher in more urbanized but sparsely populated districts with a higher proportion of economically disadvantaged households, after accounting for other relevant explanatory factors such as literacy and social disadvantage. These findings underscore the growing need to incorporate EJ considerations in future industrial development and waste management in India. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ac7dd537c8e34d85966bf85e16fd5a182023-08-09T14:15:31ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262016-01-01111212500110.1088/1748-9326/11/12/125001Environmental justice implications of industrial hazardous waste generation in India: a national scale analysisPratyusha Basu0Jayajit Chakraborty1Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Texas at El Paso , TX, USADepartment of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Texas at El Paso , TX, USAWhile rising air and water pollution have become issues of widespread public concern in India, the relationship between spatial distribution of environmental pollution and social disadvantage has received less attention. This lack of attention becomes particularly relevant in the context of industrial pollution, as India continues to pursue industrial development policies without sufficient regard to its adverse social impacts. This letter examines industrial pollution in India from an environmental justice (EJ) perspective by presenting a national scale study of social inequities in the distribution of industrial hazardous waste generation. Our analysis connects district-level data from the 2009 National Inventory of Hazardous Waste Generating Industries with variables representing urbanization, social disadvantage, and socioeconomic status from the 2011 Census of India. Our results indicate that more urbanized and densely populated districts with a higher proportion of socially and economically disadvantaged residents are significantly more likely to generate hazardous waste. The quantity of hazardous waste generated is significantly higher in more urbanized but sparsely populated districts with a higher proportion of economically disadvantaged households, after accounting for other relevant explanatory factors such as literacy and social disadvantage. These findings underscore the growing need to incorporate EJ considerations in future industrial development and waste management in India.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/12/125001environmental justiceindustrial pollutionhazardous waste managementeconomic developmentquantitativeIndia |
| spellingShingle | Pratyusha Basu Jayajit Chakraborty Environmental justice implications of industrial hazardous waste generation in India: a national scale analysis Environmental Research Letters environmental justice industrial pollution hazardous waste management economic development quantitative India |
| title | Environmental justice implications of industrial hazardous waste generation in India: a national scale analysis |
| title_full | Environmental justice implications of industrial hazardous waste generation in India: a national scale analysis |
| title_fullStr | Environmental justice implications of industrial hazardous waste generation in India: a national scale analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Environmental justice implications of industrial hazardous waste generation in India: a national scale analysis |
| title_short | Environmental justice implications of industrial hazardous waste generation in India: a national scale analysis |
| title_sort | environmental justice implications of industrial hazardous waste generation in india a national scale analysis |
| topic | environmental justice industrial pollution hazardous waste management economic development quantitative India |
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