Measuring Corporate Environmental Justice Performance

Michael A. Ash () and James K. Boyce ()
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Michael A. Ash: University of Massachusetts Amherst
James K. Boyce: University of Massachusetts Amherst

UMASS Amherst Economics Working Papers from University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics

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.

Keywords: Corporate social responsibility; corporate environmental performance; environmental justice; air pollution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M14 Q52 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-11
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