Post-siting market dynamics cannot explain current disproportionate siting patterns

Evidence

The preceding assessment of post-siting market dynamics is still an incomplete causal account of environmental injustice in communities such as Chester. Post-siting market dynamics may explain how communities like Chester became predominantly poor and/or of color after the influx of older industrial and waste facilities. Post-siting market dynamics does not, however, explain the current siting pattern in Chester, nor the wave of environmental disputes arising in many communities across the country. Empirical studies continue to document that new waste facilities are disproportionately sited in low-income communities of color. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 352

Categorization

• XREF: Closes the causal question left open in ch7: market dynamics explain inherited patterns but not the ongoing siting wave. — connects to: Market-dynamics siting outcomes remain racist once housing discrimination is factored in — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 336; Toxic waste siting disparities trace to different eras for Black versus Latino neighborhoods — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 303; Companies target hazardous waste expansions by low political activity, not race — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 801 (+2 more)