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Latin American cities with higher socioeconomic status are greening from a lower baseline: evidence from the SALURBAL project
Environmental research letters, v 16(10), 104052
01 Oct 2021
PMID: 34691242
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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.
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- Title
- Latin American cities with higher socioeconomic status are greening from a lower baseline: evidence from the SALURBAL project
- Creators
- Yang Ju - University of California, BerkeleyMika Moran - University of California, BerkeleyXize Wang - National University of SingaporeIone Avila-Palencia - Drexel UniversityAndrea Cortinez-O'Ryan - University of La FronteraKari Moore - Drexel UniversityAnne Dorothee Slovic - Universidade de São PauloOlga L. Sarmiento - Universidad de Los AndesNelson Gouveia - Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo , São Paulo, Brazil.Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa - Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisGuilherme Aguilar - Univ Fed Minas Gerais, Sch Med, Observ Urban Hlth Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, MG, BrazilDenise Marques Sales - Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisMaria De Fatima Rodrigues Pereira de Pina - Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz ICICT FIOCRUZ, Inst Comunicacao & Informacao Cient & Tecnol Saud, Rio De Janeiro, BrazilDebora Moraes Coelho - Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisIryna Dronova - University of California, Berkeley
- Publication Details
- Environmental research letters, v 16(10), 104052
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing Ltd
- Number of pages
- 10
- Grant note
- 205177/Z/16/Z / Wellcome Trust; European Commission
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000708653600001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85118608863
- Other Identifier
- 991019168363904721
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