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Title: Cumulative Impact: Organizing Risk and the New Urban-Environmental Crisis in Stockton, California

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: Underneath Stockton, Californias popular depiction as a dangerously violent metropolis is a new urban-environmental crisis involving the spatial concentration of low-income, racialized, and foreign-born populations, as well as heightened risk of exposure to food insecurity, air-toxic contamination, climate-related sea-level rise and flooding, and home foreclosure in its risky neighborhoods. This dissertation seeks to answer two primary research questions: To what extent does the Stockton case represent the dynamics of a new urban-environmental crisis unfolding throughout the continental United States? What historical processes and events contribute to patterns of demographic stability and change in Stockton's risky neighborhoods? This study uses a quantitative spatial analysis of secondary data to characterize variation in segregation levels of risky neighborhoods in Stockton, 34 comparable crisis metropolitan areas, and other non-crisis areas in the continental United States.

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Authors: Lievanos, Raoul S.

Institution: University of California, Davis

Department: Sociology

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Degree: Doctor of Philosophy

Publisher Location: Davis, California

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Topics: Health, Housing and Segregation, Migration and Immigration, Other, Poverty and Welfare, Race and Ethnicity

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