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Title: Latin American cities with higher socioeconomic status are greening from a lower baseline: Evidence from the SALURBAL project
Authors: Ju, Yang
Moran, Mika
Wang, Xize 
Avila-Palencia, Ione
Cortinez-O'Ryan, Andrea
Moore, Kari
Slovic, Anne Dorothee
Sarmiento, Olga L.
Gouveia, Nelson
Caiaffa, Waleska Teixeira
Aguilar, Guilherme
Sales, Denise Marques
Pina, Maria De Fatima Rodrigues Pereira De
Coelho, Debora Moraes
Dronova, Iryna
Keywords: environmental justice
green space
Latin America
socioeconomic status
urban
Issue Date: 27-Sep-2021
Publisher: IOP Publishing Ltd
Citation: Ju, Yang, Moran, Mika, Wang, Xize, Avila-Palencia, Ione, Cortinez-O'Ryan, Andrea, Moore, Kari, Slovic, Anne Dorothee, Sarmiento, Olga L., Gouveia, Nelson, Caiaffa, Waleska Teixeira, Aguilar, Guilherme, Sales, Denise Marques, Pina, Maria De Fatima Rodrigues Pereira De, Coelho, Debora Moraes, Dronova, Iryna (2021-09-27). Latin American cities with higher socioeconomic status are greening from a lower baseline: Evidence from the SALURBAL project. Environmental Research Letters 16 (10) : 104052. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2a63
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
Abstract: The characteristics of urban green space have context-dependent associations with socioeconomic status (SES). Latin American cities provide a unique but understudied context to assess the green space-SES associations. We measured the quantity and quality of green space as greenness from satellite-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, and we modeled the relationship between greenness and SES in 371 major Latin American cities between 2000 and 2010. We found that SES was negatively associated with average greenness at city and sub-city scales, which could be explained by urbanization generally improving SES while reducing the provision of green space. About 82% of the cities and 64% of the sub-cities experienced greening or increases in greenness over time. Although with lower average greenness, cities with higher SES had greater greening; however, it was the opposite for sub-cities. We suggest that greening is more likely to take place in peripheral sub-cities where SES tends to be lower. The findings challenge the belief that places with higher SES have better access to environmental resources and amenities; instead, this relationship is context dependent. © 2021 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
Source Title: Environmental Research Letters
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/233115
ISSN: 1748-9318
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac2a63
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
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