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Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Industrial Waste Management Facilities and Illegal Dumping Sites in the Kanto region
Takashi Akiyama*, Masahiro Osako**, Yasuhiro Matsui** and Sachihiko Harashina*
* Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology
** Research Center for Material Cycles and Waste Management, National Institute for Environmental Studies
õ Correspondence should be addressed to Takashi Akiyama:
Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology
i4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-8503 Japanj
Abstract
Conflicts have frequently arisen in the process of facility siting for industrial waste management facilitiesiIWMFsjwhich are undesirable to residents who are living nearby. Since, from the viewpoint of environmental justice, it would not be appropriate for these sites to have disproportionate spatial distribution, their spatial distributions were examined quantitatively. In addition to the IWMFs, the spatial distribution of illegal industrial waste dumping sites, also causing social problems, was also analyzed. This paper concerns landfill sites, intermediate processing facilitiesiincineration facilities, shredding/crushing facilities, dewatering facilitiesj, and illegal dumping sites for nine prefectures in the Kanto region, which were counted by municipality units, and investigates trends for each locality using the Geographical Information SystemiGISj. Our results showed that through a statistical analysis for positive spatial autocorrelation, the significant level of 1 existed in the distribution which therefore indicates that there are spatially uneven distributions. In addition, a similarity between the spatial distribution of landfill and illegal dumping sites was observed at a significant level of 1. This finding makes it clear that similar factors could possibly exist, and result in uneven siting for both of these types of facilities.
Key words: industrial waste management facilities, illegal dumping, environmental
justice, spatial distribution, GIS