The present diploma thesis deals with an important and interesting socioenvironmental issue called environmental justice or environmental equity. This issue has been widely studied in the USA and other economically developed countries, but seldom in postcommunist countries in transition. Many studies pointed out uneven distribution of pollution among people with different social status. In this diploma thesis, the relationship between concentrations of three main air-pollutants (NO2, SO2, PM10) and thirteen social, safety and health variables in selected towns in the Czech Republic is described. Factor and cluster analyses were used as the main statistical tools. The results of correlation and factor analysis show, that high concentrations of pollutants from transport (represented by NO2 levels) are typical for citizens with high salary, higher degree of education and for individuals living in big towns. On the other hand, towns with higher concentrations of solid fuels combustion by-products (SO2, PM10) are inhabited by people with lower degree of education and low salary. These towns have usually high emigration rate and high unemployment. The cluster analysis points out, that high traffic-related pollutant concentrations are characteristic mainly for regional centres, in contrary, high levels of...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:330264 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Linhartová, Martina |
| Contributors | Braniš, Martin, Kryl, Martin |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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