Explaining environmental justice through interactional justice in the context of green space

Yildirim, Seyda 2024. Explaining environmental justice through interactional justice in the context of green space. Presented at: 28th International Conference Association People-Environment Studies (IAPS 2024), Barcelona, Spain, 2-5 July 2024. Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

Environmental justice has become a critical discourse by environmental justice specialists in recent years due to the new injustices revealed by the strategies implemented in green spaces. These resulting inequities generally lead to distributional injustice by physically displacing socioeconomically vulnerable individuals and causing them to relocate to less healthy areas. However, focusing only on distributive justice means overlooking the processes that reproduce these injustices. At this point, this study asks the following question: How is the sustainability of environmental justice possible? Therefore, this research aims to explain the causal dimensions of environmental injustice in cities beyond distributional injustice and to point out interactional justice. To achieve this, the concept of Environmental Justice in the context of Green Spaces through the lens of interactional justice is discussed. In this way, a comprehensive literature review is conducted from secondary sources. Qualitative data obtained from academic literature and policy literature are used for this study. The main results of this research demonstrate how inter-community power relations play a crucial role in producing environmental injustices. Additionally, green space planning should be inclusive procedural justice can be achieved and this might result in recognitional justice. Moreover, procedural injustices are a result of interactional injustice, particularly of immigrants and other minority residents. Otherwise, interactional justice can prevent people living in a particular area from being excluded because of their negative experiences in green spaces.This research can be considered as a guide to policy makers for just and sustainable city planning, emphasizing the need to shift power to communities.The research is significant in terms of strengthening underserved communities in cities by explaining the causal dimension of environmental injustices by combining environmental and economic data. It differs from previous studies in that it explains this with interactional justice, one of the environmental justice discourses. Keywords: environmental justice, interactional justice, green spaces, underserved communities

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	Schools > Architecture
Last Modified:	22 Jul 2025 19:51
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/179514

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