Abstract

Environmental Policy for Low-income People in Urban Areas Ⅱ

The purpose of this study is to identify environmental inequity in the distribution of environmental damages, responsibilities, and benefits among different income groups with a focus on low-income residents living in urban areas (Seoul metropolitan area) and to propose an integrated environmental policy to protect the low-income population through considerations to the environment and the socioeconomic characteristics of the population and area.

To investigate environmental inequity in micro-geographical terms of exposure and the related health effects of environmental risk, we incorporated environmental factors, socioeconomic factors, and environmentally related disease and found spatial intersections in socioeconomic status and environmental risk.

We investigated the concentration profile of airborne hazardous agents at elementary schools and households located in Ansansi, Siheungsi and Seonganmsi. At the elementary schools, indoor and outdoor concentrations of the hazardous agents (PM10, heavy metal (particularly, lead), formaldehyde, TVOCs (Total Volatile Organic Compounds), microbes (bacteria, fungi), nitrogen dioxide) showed no significance on the income levels based upon the Carstairs index and monthl