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作者

Magdalena Biernacka;Edyta Łaszkiewicz;Jakub Kronenberg

来源

URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING,Vol.73,Issue1,Article 127585

语言

英文

关键字

Urban parks;Barriers;Socioeconomic segregation;Environmental justice;Quality of life

作者单位

University of Lodz, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, Department of Regional Economics and Environment, Social-Ecological Systems Analysis Lab, POW 3/5 Street, 90-255 Lodz, Poland;University of Lodz, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, Department of Regional Economics and Environment, Social-Ecological Systems Analysis Lab, POW 3/5 Street, 90-255 Lodz, Poland

摘要

With this paper, we enrich the environmental justice debate by investigating differences in the provision of parks in Lodz, Poland, at three levels: availability, accessibility, and attractiveness. A park is ‘available’ when it exists within a suitable distance from where we live; it is ‘accessible’ when we feel that we are welcome there, and we can freely reach and safely use this park; it is ‘attractive’ when we willingly want to use it and spend time there. Our research hypothesis is that the most vulnerable groups of inhabitants concentrate around parks whose provision is affected by the largest number of barriers at each of the three levels, while the least vulnerable benefit from the vicinity of parks that are the least affected. Apart from the statistical analysis – the correlation between the indicators that represent the three levels of park provision and those that represent the most and least economically vulnerable using Pearson’s coefficient – we scrutinize three case study parks. The results confirm that there are inequalities at the level of attractiveness for the most vulnerable groups; meanwhile, no statistically significant results were recorded for the least vulnerable groups. The differences would probably be more explicit had socioeconomic segregation been higher in Lodz. The results may also be influenced by the unique postsocialist and postindustrial legacy of our city. The ongoing revitalization of the city center and the increased activity of developers may exclude the most vulnerable inhabitants and deepen segregation.