Geospatial analysis of naturally occurring boundaries in road-transport emissions and children's respiratory health across a demographically diverse cityscape

Calvin Jephcote and Haibo Chen

Social Science & Medicine, 2013, vol. 82, issue C, 87-99

Abstract: The motor-vehicle is accountable for emitting a substantial concoction of air quality objective pollutants and carcinogenic hydrocarbons within close proximity to urbanised residential districts. The spatial extent of health impacts associated with road-transport pollutants have traditionally been explored through the examination of artificially created buffers, defined by subjective distances from specified major road links. Within this paper an alternative approach is presented using boundary statistics, which describe naturally occurring shifts of magnitude in socio-environmental and health outcomes across the wider urban area. In contrast, previous distance-threshold investigations have used arbitrarily sized buffers placed upon predetermined locations in response to environmental attributes, without considering the combined influence of additional social burdens. The demographically diverse City of Leicester, situated within the heart of the United Kingdom's major road-transport network, was selected to showcase such methods.

Keywords: Air pollution; Boundary analysis; Dose–distance response; Environmental Justice (EJ); Multilevel modelling; Respiratory health; Traffic emissions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.01.030

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