- Title
- Green Apartheid: Urban green infrastructure remains unequally distributed across income and race geographies in South Africa
- Creator
- Venter, Zander S, Shackleton, Charlie M, Van Staden, Francini, Selomane, Odirilwe, Masterson, Vanessa A
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160323
- Identifier
- vital:40435
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.103889
- Identifier
- https://researchdata.ru.ac.za/search?q=:keyword: "Environmental justice"
- Description
- Urban green infrastructure provides ecosystem services that are essential to human wellbeing. A dearth of national-scale assessments in the Global South has precluded the ability to explore how political regimes, such as the forced racial segregation in South Africa during and after Apartheid, have influenced the extent of and access to green infrastructure over time. We investigate whether there are disparities in green infrastructure distributions across race and income geographies in urban South Africa. Using open-source satellite imagery and geographic information, along with national census statistics, we find that public and private green infrastructure is more abundant, accessible, greener and more treed in high-income relative to low-income areas, and in areas where previously advantaged racial groups (i.e. White citizens) reside.
- Format
- 13 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Landscape and Urban Planning, Venter, Z.S., Shackleton, C.M., Van Staden, F., Selomane, O. and Masterson, V.A., 2020. Green Apartheid: Urban green infrastructure remains unequally distributed across income and race geographies in South Africa. Landscape and Urban Planning, 203, p.103889, Landscape and Urban Planning volume 203 number p103889 November 2020 0169-2046
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RU DST/NRF SARChI for Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods
RU Department of Environmental Science
Shackleton, Charles Michael (Distinguished Prof)
SDG 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 10. Reduced Inequalities
SDG 15. Life On Land
SDG 03. Good Health and Well-Being
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