Overview
- Provides a comprehensive overview of empirical green space studies from the perspective of critical urban geography
- Focuses on mixed method case study material and thereby goes beyond dominant quantitative approaches
- Takes a strong user-centered perspective emphasizing the contextual boundedness of green space use
Part of the book series: Sustainable Development Goals Series (SDGS)
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Against the backdrop of an accelerating global urbanization and related ecological, climatic or social challenges to urban sustainability, this book focuses on the access to “safe, inclusive and accessible green and public space” as outlined in United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal No. 11. Looking through the lens of environmental justice and contested urban spaces, it raises the question who ultimately benefits from a green city development, and – even more importantly – who does not. While green space benefits are well-documented, green space provision is faced by multiple challenges in an era of urban neoliberalism. With their interdisciplinary and multi-method approach, the chapters in this book carefully study the different dimensions of green space access with particular focus on vulnerable groups, critically evaluate cases of procedural injustice and, in the case of Northern Europe that is often seen as forerunner of urban sustainability, provide in-depth studies on the contexts of injustices in urban greening.
Chapters 1, 5, and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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Keywords
- Urban green spaces
- Sustainability in the Nordic-Baltic cities
- Green space use and non-use
- Environmental justice
- Green space planning
- Sustainable development
- Green space benefits
- Public space
- Public parks
- Urban gardening
- Socio-spatial justice
- Green space provision
- Green commons
- Right to the city
- Urban neoliberalism
- Green infrastructure
- SDG 11
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Urbanization and Urban Planning
- Urban Geography and Urbanism
Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Urban Green Spaces and the Question of Environmental Justice
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Contested Urban Green Spaces
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bianka Plüschke-Altof is Researcher in Environmental Sociology at the School of Natural Sciences and Health at Tallinn University and Lecturer in Qualitative Research at the University of Tartu. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Tartu and an undergraduate in Social Sciences from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research concentrates on questions of socio-spatial and environmental justice, with specific focus on Central-Eastern Europe. As part of the research group on “Human-nature interactions in the city” at Tallinn University she investigates urban (green space) planning for sustainability, the governance of urban gardening, and environmental activism.
Helen Sooväli-Sepping is a Professor in Environmental Management at Tallinn University and Vice-Rector at Tallinn University of Technology, with specific focus on the organization’s green transition. She holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Tartu in Estonia. Her research lies in the field of environmental studies in urban space (participatory planning, urban green commons, sustainable mobility), and cultural geography (especially heritage culture, cultural sustainability, landscape imaginary). She leads the research group on “Human-nature interactions in the city” at Tallinn University
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Whose Green City?
Book Subtitle: Contested Urban Green Spaces and Environmental Justice in Northern Europe
Editors: Bianka Plüschke-Altof, Helen Sooväli-Sepping
Series Title: Sustainable Development Goals Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04636-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04635-3Published: 01 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04638-4Published: 02 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-04636-0Published: 31 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-3084
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3092
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 182
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Environmental Management, Cities, Countries, Regions, Landscape Architecture