Examining the Association between Hazardous Waste Facilities and Rural "Brain Drain"

Autor/inn/en	Hunter, Lori M.; Sutton, Jeannette
Titel	Examining the Association between Hazardous Waste Facilities and Rural "Brain Drain"
Quelle	In: Rural Sociology, 69 (2004) 2, S.197-212 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-0112
Schlagwörter	Taxes; Rural Areas; Human Capital; Counties; Brain Drain; Hazardous Materials; Wastes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abgabe; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Humankapital; Hazardous substance; Gefahrstoff; Gargabe; Abfall
Abstract	Rural communities are increasingly being faced with the prospect of accepting facilities characterized as "opportunity-threat," such as facilities that generate, treat, store, or otherwise dispose of hazardous wastes. Such facilities may offer economic gains through jobs and tax revenue, although they may also act as environmental "disamenities." This analysis examines the possibility that the presence of such facilities equates with lower loss of rural human capital, a question as yet unexamined on a national scale within the academic literature. Making use of secondary data from several different sources, we examine the association between age- and education-specific outmigration and:(1) the number of hazardous waste facilities; (2) the number of large quantity hazardous waste generators; and (3) the number of hazardous waste landfills and incinerators across rural counties within the 48 contiguous states. Our findings suggest that the presence of hazardous waste facilities does not clearly equate with reductions in rural "brain drain." (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10