| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
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SAGE Research Methods. Cases |
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SAGE Research Methods. Cases
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| Summary |
In the spring of 2015, California was entering the fourth year of a historic drought. In response, California's Governor Jerry Brown issued an executive order that required mandatory reductions in water usage. At the same time, the state of California had created the CalEnviroScreen database, which assessed each of California's Census tracts on measures of environmental and social burden to create an index of vulnerability. We set out to analyze if the mandatory water reductions were fair or if they disproportionately affected vulnerable communities or minority communities. Over decades, significant research has indicated that racial and ethnic minorities are disproportionately affected by environmental bads; would this be the case here? The analysis required the use of Geographic Information Systems methods to match water-district geographies to Census tracts, and spatial econometric methods to better estimate the effects of the independent variables on the dependent variable of allowed water use. As part of this analysis, we had to decide between a spatial error model, which incorporates the spatial dependence into the error term, and a spatial autoregressive model, which utilizes spatial lags of the dependent variable, but our diagnostic statistics didn't match the textbook cases, making the decision more difficult. In the end we chose spatial error model, which better fit our goals for the analysis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on XML content |
| Subject |
Environmental ethics -- Research.
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Environmental justice -- Research -- California.
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Water utilities -- Research -- California.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wikstrom, Kristoffer E., author
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| ISBN |
1526475537 |
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9781526475534 (ebook) |
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