Are green cities healthy and equitable? Unpacking the relationship between health, green space and gentrification
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- dc.contributor.author Cole, Helenca
- dc.contributor.author Garcia Lamarca, Melisaca
- dc.contributor.author Connolly, Jamesca
- dc.contributor.author Anguelovski, Isabelleca
- dc.date.accessioned 2018-06-13T07:25:22Z
- dc.date.available 2018-06-13T07:25:22Z
- dc.date.issued 2017
- dc.description.abstract While access and exposure to green spaces has been shown to be beneficial for the health of urban residents, interventions focused on augmenting such access may also catalyse gentrification processes, also known as green gentrification. Drawing from the fields of public health, urban planning and environmental justice, we argue that public health and epidemiology researchers should rely on a more dynamic model of community that accounts for the potential unintended social consequences of upstream health interventions. In our example of green gentrification, the health benefits of greening can only be fully understood relative to the social and political environments in which inequities persist. We point to two key questions regarding the health benefits of newly added green space: Who benefits in the short and long term from greening interventions in lower income or minority neighbourhoods undergoing processes of revitalisation? And, can green cities be both healthy and just? We propose the Green Gentrification and Health Equity model which provides a framework for understanding and testing whether gentrification associated with green space may modify the effect of exposure to green space on health.
- dc.description.sponsorship This paper was supported by funding from ERC Grant Agreement 678034
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- dc.identifier.citation Cole HVS, Garcia Lamarca M, Connolly JJT, Anguelovski I. Are green cities healthy and equitable? Unpacking the relationship between health, green space and gentrification. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2017 Nov;71(11):1118-1121. DOI: 10.1136/jech-2017-209201
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2017-209201
- dc.identifier.issn 0143-005X
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/34890
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher BMJ Publishing Groupca
- dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2017 Nov;71(11):1118-21
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/678034
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- dc.subject.keyword Environmental health
- dc.subject.keyword Health inequalities
- dc.subject.keyword Health promotion
- dc.subject.other Medi ambient
- dc.subject.other Ecologia
- dc.title Are green cities healthy and equitable? Unpacking the relationship between health, green space and gentrificationca
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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