| Autor: |
Miller, Elias B.1 (AUTHOR), Seyfried, Ashley P.2 (AUTHOR), Pender, Sarah E.3 (AUTHOR), Heard, Kevin4 (AUTHOR), Meindl, George A.5 (AUTHOR) gmeindl@binghamton.edu |
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Environmental Justice (19394071). Aug2022, Vol. 15 Issue 4, p246-256. 11p. |
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Green spaces are integral components of urban environments, as they provide numerous health benefits to people. However, urban green spaces are often inequitably distributed. Understanding the relationship between green space access and socioeconomic status is critical for identifying and eliminating environmental injustices. This study utilized Geographic Information Systems to examine the relationship between green space accessibility and racial groups in Binghamton, New York, a small city with known socioeconomic disparities and public health concerns. Using network analysis to measure distances of census blocks from green spaces, we found that most neighborhoods, regardless of overall minority composition, have equitable access to green spaces when considering all green spaces. However, when increasing the minimum threshold to 5000 m green spaces, the standard used by the World Health Organization to define high-quality green space, we found that low-Asian census blocks have significantly less access to green spaces, whereas high-Hispanic blocks have relatively greater access to green space. This underscores the importance of considering each racial category separately rather than lumping people of color into a single category, which is common practice in studies of social inequity. Our results highlight disparities between access to green space across different racial groups in a small-sized American city and can be used by urban planners to inform future initiatives that value social equity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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GreenFILE |
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