|
EconStor >
University of Massachusetts (UMass Amherst) >
Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts >
Working Papers, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts >
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/64231
|
| | |
| Title: | | Measuring corporate environmental justice performance  |
| Authors: | | Ash, Michael Boyce, James K. |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working Paper, University of Massachusetts, Department of Economics 2008-16 |
| Abstract: | | Measures of corporate environmental justice performance can be a valuable tool in efforts to promote corporate social responsibility and to document systematic patterns of environmental injustice. This paper develops such a measure based on the extent to which toxic air emissions from industrial facilities disproportionately impact racial and ethnic minorities and low-income people. Applying the measure to 100 major corporate air polluters in the United States, we find wide variation in the extent of disproportional exposures. In a number of cases, minorities bear more than half of the total human health impacts from the firm's industrial air pollution. |
| Subjects: | | corporate social responsibility corporate environmental performance environmental justice air pollution |
| JEL: | | M14 Q52 Q56 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Papers, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts
|
| Files in This Item:
| |
|
| No. of Downloads:
| |
| last Month |
last 3 Month |
total |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| | |
Download bibliographical data as:
BibTeX
|
| |
Share on:http://hdl.handle.net/10419/64231
|
Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
|