Impervious cover change as an indicator of environmental equity.

ABSTRACT: Pattern-focused environmental equity research has been underpinned by high-resolution remotely sensed data to uncover spatial relationships between environmental amenities (e.g., urban tree cover) and socio-economic status (SES). A constraint imposed by reliance on high-resolution data is the inability to examine temporal patterns, primarily because of the cost of data production and the nascent state of high-resolution land cover mapping. The lack of temporal monitoring is a clear gap in pattern-focused environmental equity research. We examined temporal (2001 - 2019) relationships between a disamenity, impervious cover (IC), and demographic attributes for the entirety of the conterminous United States. Our main finding was 2001 - 2019 increases in IC were more pervasive in minority commu

SUBMITTER: Culler M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11684521 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature