| Chapter 1: | Spatial and Environmental Justice in the Metropolis |
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Figure 1.1. Location of the Tampa Bay Metropolitan Area, Florida.
United States. Of Florida's 67 counties, Tampa Bay's Pinellas and Hillsborough counties rank first and fifth, respectively, in terms of population density in the state. Despite this actual and ardently desired progress towards becoming “one of the most dynamic super-regions in the US” (Tampa Bay Partnership, 2008), Tampa Bay is still virtually a terra incognita in the social science research literature.
With regard to the focus of this book, only a few prior studies have documented the existence of racial and economic inequities in the distribution of noxious facilities or toxic pollutants within counties of Tampa Bay (Chakraborty, 2001, 2009; Stretesky & Lynch, 1999). There is, therefore, an urgent and growing need to provide more empirically focused analyses of environmental