Importance of mapping for planning green infrastructure in the context of environmental justice

Yildirim, Seyda 2024. Importance of mapping for planning green infrastructure in the context of environmental justice. Item availability restricted.

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In today's world, where rapid urbanization and climate change make cities and their inhabitants even more vulnerable, maps have become an important tool for securing environmental justice. Environmental threats and top-down urban projects that cannot respond to the changing profiles of cities cause the reproduction of environmental injustices. This situation creates the need for how environmental goods and bads are distributed and what the most unjust neighbourhoods are to supply the needs. In other words, mapping spatial inequalities provides significant information in the fight against environmental injustice. In this way, this research aims to demonstrate the importance of mapping in identifying injustices by analysing the most unjust neighbourhoods in London through the distributional, recognition and procedural dimension of environmental justice. Similarly, using the Geographic Information System (GIS) tool, a design and planning framework is determined by associating the issue of where and how the green infrastructure project priority should be with various maps. To achieve this, participatory map will be used together with environmental data (urban heat island, air pollution, noise pollution, flood risk and lack of green space) and socioeconomic data (deprivation map). Environmental and socioeconomic maps already obtained from the internet will be visualized and overlayed at the neighbourhood scale using ArcMap 10.8 software. As a result, hotspots of injustice will identify the most unjust neighbourhoods in London. Then, these identified neighbourhoods will be compared with the data on the participatory map in determining environmental injustice will be discussed. The research shares the expected findings that the mapping method is one of the effective tools in ensuring environmental injustice. In this project in particular, mapping provides significant data on distributional, recognition and procedural injustice, providing vital inputs for empowering vulnerable communities in achieving environmental justice. This research provides crucial clues about how green infrastructure projects should be planned by associating the spatial dimension of environmental injustice with different map data. At this stage, connecting environmental and socio-economic maps with participatory maps is significant to prevent disparities in cities. Furthermore, this project is noteworthy in that it draws attention to the importance of maps in ensuring environmental justice, particularly for policy makers.

Item Type:	Other
Schools:	Schools > Architecture
Last Modified:	11 Jul 2025 13:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/179516

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