Environmental justice and outdoor recreation opportunities: A spatially explicit assessment in Oslo metropolitan area, Norway

Urban and peri-urban green space provides multiple recreation opportunities with important benefits for physical and psychological well-being, but access to these benefits is often unequally distributed. Various methodologies to assess outdoor recreation opportunities exist, but they rarely take int...

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Autores: Suárez Casado, Marta, Barton, D.N., Cimburov, Zofie, Rusch, Graciela M., Gómez-Baggethun, E., Onaindia Olalde, Miren
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Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
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Palabra clave::environmental justice
outdoor recreation
spatial modelling
urban ecosystem services
urban green space
ecosystem services
health-benefits
demand
accessibility
framework
parks
directions
landscape
diversity
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spelling Environmental justice and outdoor recreation opportunities: A spatially explicit assessment in Oslo metropolitan area, NorwaySuárez Casado, MartaBarton, D.N.Cimburov, ZofieRusch, Graciela M.Gómez-Baggethun, E.Onaindia Olalde, Miren:environmental justiceoutdoor recreationspatial modellingurban ecosystem servicesurban green spaceecosystem serviceshealth-benefitsdemandaccessibilityframeworkparksdirectionslandscapediversityUrban and peri-urban green space provides multiple recreation opportunities with important benefits for physical and psychological well-being, but access to these benefits is often unequally distributed. Various methodologies to assess outdoor recreation opportunities exist, but they rarely take into consideration dimensions of environmental justice. The aim of this paper is to map and assess nature-based outdoor recreation opportunities with a focus on green space accessibility for different social groups, and discuss the results in light of of environmental justice. We use the Oslo metropolitan area, Norway, as a case study. We combine statistical analysis with spatial modelling to assess recreation preferences and distribution of nature-based recreation opportunities. We also analyse accessibility for different social groups, including children and the elderly, migrants and low-income households. Our results show that most people prefer large wooded green areas, high density of trees, and presence of water, although preferences differ depending on age and place of residence. Areas for daily recreation are accessible to the whole population in the study area, but they are unequally distributed, migrants and low-income households having relatively less access. Our methodology can also be applied in other cities and metropolitan areas to assess differences in accessibility to outdoor recreation opportunities. We discuss whether and to which extent these results illustrate a situation of environmental injustice. We conclude that the relation between access to green space and environmental justice can be complex, and that injustice may not automatically result from uneven access.Contributions by MSC, DNB and EGB were supported by the project ENABLE, funded through the 2015-2016 BiodivERsA COFUND call for research proposals, with the national funders The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences, and Spatial Planning, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, German Aeronautics and Space Research Centre, National Science Centre (Poland), The Research Council of Norway and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. The lead author was also partially supported by an ERASMUS+ Ikasle Praktikak 2017-2018 grant, operated by University of the Basque Country.Elsevier202120212020info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/51347reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoIngléshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S146290111930992X?via%3Dihubinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/).Atribución 3.0 Españaoai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/513472026-06-18T09:23:17Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Environmental justice and outdoor recreation opportunities: A spatially explicit assessment in Oslo metropolitan area, Norway
title Environmental justice and outdoor recreation opportunities: A spatially explicit assessment in Oslo metropolitan area, Norway
spellingShingle Environmental justice and outdoor recreation opportunities: A spatially explicit assessment in Oslo metropolitan area, Norway
Suárez Casado, Marta
:environmental justice
outdoor recreation
spatial modelling
urban ecosystem services
urban green space
ecosystem services
health-benefits
demand
accessibility
framework
parks
directions
landscape
diversity
title_short Environmental justice and outdoor recreation opportunities: A spatially explicit assessment in Oslo metropolitan area, Norway
title_full Environmental justice and outdoor recreation opportunities: A spatially explicit assessment in Oslo metropolitan area, Norway
title_fullStr Environmental justice and outdoor recreation opportunities: A spatially explicit assessment in Oslo metropolitan area, Norway
title_full_unstemmed Environmental justice and outdoor recreation opportunities: A spatially explicit assessment in Oslo metropolitan area, Norway
title_sort Environmental justice and outdoor recreation opportunities: A spatially explicit assessment in Oslo metropolitan area, Norway
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Suárez Casado, Marta
Barton, D.N.
Cimburov, Zofie
Rusch, Graciela M.
Gómez-Baggethun, E.
Onaindia Olalde, Miren
author Suárez Casado, Marta
author_facet Suárez Casado, Marta
Barton, D.N.
Cimburov, Zofie
Rusch, Graciela M.
Gómez-Baggethun, E.
Onaindia Olalde, Miren
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author2 Barton, D.N.
Cimburov, Zofie
Rusch, Graciela M.
Gómez-Baggethun, E.
Onaindia Olalde, Miren
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv :environmental justice
outdoor recreation
spatial modelling
urban ecosystem services
urban green space
ecosystem services
health-benefits
demand
accessibility
framework
parks
directions
landscape
diversity
topic :environmental justice
outdoor recreation
spatial modelling
urban ecosystem services
urban green space
ecosystem services
health-benefits
demand
accessibility
framework
parks
directions
landscape
diversity
description Urban and peri-urban green space provides multiple recreation opportunities with important benefits for physical and psychological well-being, but access to these benefits is often unequally distributed. Various methodologies to assess outdoor recreation opportunities exist, but they rarely take into consideration dimensions of environmental justice. The aim of this paper is to map and assess nature-based outdoor recreation opportunities with a focus on green space accessibility for different social groups, and discuss the results in light of of environmental justice. We use the Oslo metropolitan area, Norway, as a case study. We combine statistical analysis with spatial modelling to assess recreation preferences and distribution of nature-based recreation opportunities. We also analyse accessibility for different social groups, including children and the elderly, migrants and low-income households. Our results show that most people prefer large wooded green areas, high density of trees, and presence of water, although preferences differ depending on age and place of residence. Areas for daily recreation are accessible to the whole population in the study area, but they are unequally distributed, migrants and low-income households having relatively less access. Our methodology can also be applied in other cities and metropolitan areas to assess differences in accessibility to outdoor recreation opportunities. We discuss whether and to which extent these results illustrate a situation of environmental injustice. We conclude that the relation between access to green space and environmental justice can be complex, and that injustice may not automatically result from uneven access.
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