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A Comparative Analysis of Socioeconomic Characteristics of Chemical Substance Emissions: From the Viewpoint of Environmental Justice

  • Crisisonomy
  • Abbr : KRCEM
  • 2018, 14(9), pp.133-144
  • DOI : 10.14251/crisisonomy.2018.14.9.133
  • Publisher : Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy > Public Policy in general
  • Received : August 23, 2018
  • Accepted : September 27, 2018
  • Published : September 30, 2018

LEE SEUNG HOON 1,  Ban, Yong-un 1,  Jong In Baek 1,  KO， JUNGKEUN 2,  Su Eun Sim 3

1충북대학교
2인하대학교
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ABSTRACT

This study intended to identify the actual status of environmental injustice in Korea through finding a geographic distribution of chemical substance emissions and comparing socio-economic characteristics of the local governments exposed to chemical substance emissions with those without being exposed to the emissions. It employed ‘one-way ANOVA’ and ‘Scheffe’s method’ to find out the difference between their mean values of socio-economic indicators. The following results are found: (1) among 229 governments, about 70% of total amount of chemical emissions had been disproportionately accumulated in only 23 local governments mainly located in Seoul and Chungcheong regions; 2) there is a statistically significant difference in socio-economic indicators between the groups of local governments with and without exposure of chemical substances. These results confirmed that chemical substance emissions have been disproportionately concentrated on particular regions in Korea, implying environmental injustice between the regions with high and low exposure of chemical substances.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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