International Journal of Physical and Social Sciences
Year : 2014, Volume : 4, Issue : 4
First page : ( 483) Last page : ( 495)
Online ISSN : 2249-5894.

Environmental analysis with response to Air

Dr. Joshi Dina Krishna

Post Doctoral Scholar, Gayatrinagar, New Bus Stand, Junagarh, Kalahandi, Odisha, 766 014

Online published on 5 June, 2014.

Abstract

This paper presents the analysis and the study of air and its implications of the distribution in terms of potential environmental injustice. We consider the recent history of the environmental justice debate in the global level and in the light of this, how one aspect of air pollution, nitrogen dioxide levels, affects different population groups differentially across the world. We also estimate the extent to which people living in each territory contribute towards this pollution, with the aid of information on the characteristics of the vehicles they own. Pollution is most concentrated in areas where young children and their parents are more likely to live and least concentrated in areas to which the elderly tend to migrate. Those communities that are most polluted and which also emit the least pollution tend to be amongst the poorest in different regions. There is therefore evidence of environmental injustice in the distribution and production of poor air quality in different parts. However, the spatial distributions of those who produce and receive most of that pollution have to be considered simultaneously to see this injustice clearly.

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Keywords

Environmental injustice, Air quality, Global level.

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