African American Exposure to Prescribed Fire Smoke in Georgia, USA

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Study examining exposure to air pollution from prescribed burning affecting predominantly African American communities in rural Georgia. Discusses conservation-based prescribed burning practices in Georgia and land ownership dynamics, offering a census tract analysis of African American, Hispanic American, and White residence in relation to burn areas. Provides maps indicating spatial distribution of burn permits for conservation lands, government lands, commercial lands, and private landowner lands with approximate percentages of African American population for each census tract.

Cassandra Johnson Gaither, Sadia Afrin, Fernando Garcia-Menendez, et al.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(17), 3079

08/2019

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Black or African American · Environmental health · Policy · Statistics and data · Georgia