Urban Green Infrastructure Accessibility: Investigating Environmental Justice in a European and Global Green Capital
dc.contributor.author | Ruiz Apilánez, Borja | |
dc.contributor.author | Ormaetxea, Estitxu | |
dc.contributor.author | Aguado Moralejo, Itziar | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-29T12:05:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-08-29T12:05:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-08-02 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Land 12(8) : (2023) // Article ID 1534 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 2073-445X | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/62271 | |
dc.description.abstract | Access to green spaces offers numerous benefits to citizens and is key to achieving environmental justice. This article explores accessibility to green infrastructure (GI) in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, the European and Global Green Capital in 2012 and 2019. Vitoria-Gasteiz was selected as a case study because it combines actions aimed at promoting green infrastructure in the city along with an urban model that in recent years has favored more expansive urbanism. Manhattan distance and configurational analysis is used to investigate accessibility to the most relevant elements of the GI system and their integration in the urban tissue. Considering the actual pedestrian mobility network, configurational accessibility is examined globally and locally with 1 km and 300 m radii. The analysis reveals great differences both in global and local configurational accessibility across fifty components of the GI system that are greater than 0.5 ha and open for public use. It also shows that, while almost all inhabitants (97.9%) reside within 1 km from these green areas, 27.7% of the population live more than 300 m away. The investigation demonstrates the need to improve the city’s GI to provide universal accessibility to green spaces. It offers useful methods that planning professionals and local administrations can use to assess residents’ access to green areas and guide future GI transformation and development towards environmental justice. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | This research was funded by the Basque Government (Built Heritage Research Group; Grant: IT1617-22), the Spanish Government’s State Program for Research, Development and Innovation aimed at the challenges of society (SUDIAP; Grant: PID2019-108120RB-C32), and the Spanish Government and ERDF—A way of making Europe (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033; Grant: PID2021-123686OB-I00). | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | MDPI | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN/PID2019-108120RB-C32 | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN/PID2021-123686OB-I00 | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | urban green infrastructure | es_ES |
dc.subject | space syntax | es_ES |
dc.subject | environmental justice | es_ES |
dc.subject | accessibility | es_ES |
dc.subject | 3-30-300 rule | es_ES |
dc.subject | spatial configuration | es_ES |
dc.title | Urban Green Infrastructure Accessibility: Investigating Environmental Justice in a European and Global Green Capital | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.date.updated | 2023-08-28T09:32:37Z | |
dc.rights.holder | © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). | es_ES |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/8/1534 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/land12081534 | |
dc.departamentoes | Geografía, prehistoria y arqueología | |
dc.departamentoeu | Geografia,historiaurrea eta arkeologia |
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