Urban Green Spaces by Viniece Jennings & Matthew H. E. M. Browning & Alessandro Rigolon

Author:Viniece Jennings & Matthew H. E. M. Browning & Alessandro Rigolon
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030104696
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

4.2 Research Highlights from Environmental Justice Studies on Urban Green Space

A fundamental question in social justice research involves if the inequalities are a result of race, economic standing, or a combination of both variables (Gerrish and Watkins 2018). Similar questions are often raised in academic studies that investigate access to urban green space. As studies characterize the vegetation that makes up green spaces in a variety of ways (e.g., canopy cover, street trees, parks, green infrastructure, urban forests, and gardens) (Jennings et al. 2017b; Hartig et al. 2014; Landry and Chakraborty 2009), some projects measure socioeconomic status through median income or poverty rate along with indirect proxies for wealth such as education, property value, or percent renter (Gerrish and Watkins 2018). The vast majority of environmental justice studies on urban green space have focused on distributional justice issues; that is, the degree to which low-income people and people of color experience spatial inequities in the provision of green space. In this section, we first review this vast literature on distributional injustice that focuses on tree cover and on urban parks, and we then move to a discussion of procedural justice to uncover the complex mechanisms that contributed to the inequities we observe today.

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