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Notes

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    For the rest of the chapter we will primarily use the term ‘green infrastructure’ (GI), noting that Urban Forests are a key component of this and some of the surveys we draw on are of forested areas.

  2. 2.

    The English Index of Multiple Deprivation measures relative deprivation and is based on indicators that cover key areas such as income, education, health, housing, environment, employment and crime (Department for Communities and Local Government <CitationRef CitationID="CR27" >2015</Citation Ref>).

  3. 3.

    Social housing is let at low rents for those on low incomes.

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    Guerilla gardening refers to gardening on land the gardeners do not have legal rights of access to, e.g. an abandoned site, private land etc.

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We would like to acknowledge EU Cost Action FP1204: ‘Green Infrastructure approach: linking environmental with social aspects in studying and managing urban forests’ and all the participants of the Action that assisted with providing information and data gathering for this chapter. Thanks to Nathan Siter for reviewing the work.

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  3. Forest Faculty, Bartın University, Bartın, Turkey

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O’Brien, L. et al. (2017). Social and Environmental Justice: Diversity in Access to and Benefits from Urban Green Infrastructure – Examples from Europe. In: Pearlmutter, D., et al. The Urban Forest. Future City, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50280-9_15

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