Environmental Justice and Urban Parks. A Case Study Applied to Tarragona (Spain)
| Autor: | Edgar Bustamante Picón, Yolanda Pérez-Albert, Joan Alberich, José Ignacio Muro Morales |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Environmental justice
education.field_of_study Index (economics) Inequality business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Population accounting urban parks Social Sciences Ecosystem services Renting Geography Tarragona Geography. Anthropology. Recreation Quality (business) Human Development Index environmental justice ecosystem services business education Environmental planning media_common |
| Zdroj: | Urban Science, Vol 5, Iss 62, p 62 (2021) Urban Science Volume 5 Issue 3 |
| DOI: | 10.20944/preprints202106.0554.v1 |
| Popis: | There is consensus regarding the fact that urban green areas contribute to the quality of life of their inhabitants. Therefore, efficient city management must assess whether the population has access to green areas and the areas’ quality in relation to, for example, vegetation, facilities or furnishings. Therefore, the objective is to establish environmental justice of urban parks in Tarragona (Spain) by developing a Park Quality Index (PQI) and the sociodemographic characteristics (level of studies, Human Development Index –HDI–, home sale and rental prices) of the population living within 300 m of a park. To prepare this, a GIS-integrated Multi-Criteria Evaluation (MCE) was produced. The results show that the green areas have low accessibility and availability and that most parks obtain an average-low PQI, with the best-valued aspect being the vegetation and the worst being the facilities. Regarding the degree of environmental justice, a causal relationship between the PQI and the indicators used emerges. The average value of the home sale prices is the one that shows the greatest correlation. These results can be used together with participatory procedures as a basis for identifying places with greater inequality, and for selecting the more effective actions that enable increasing environmental justice with respect to green areas. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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