Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities 'just green enough'
Abstract
Urban green space promotes physical activity and public health. Many US minority communities lack green space access, an environmental injustice. US and Chinese cities have developed innovative ways to create new green space. Urban greening can, however, create paradoxical effects such as gentrification. Urban green space projects need more integrative sustainability policies to protect communities.
- Publication:
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Landscape and Urban Planning
- Pub Date:
- May 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.01.017
- Bibcode:
- 2014LUrbP.125..234W
- Keywords:
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- Urban green spaces;
- Ecosystem services;
- Human health;
- Environmental justice;
- Planning strategies;
- Gentrification