Green Apartheid: Urban green infrastructure remains unequally distributed across income and race geographies in South Africa

Venter, Zander S; Shackleton, Charlie M; Van Staden, Francini; Selomane, Odirilwe; Masterson, Vanessa A

Title: Green Apartheid: Urban green infrastructure remains unequally distributed across income and race geographies in South Africa
Creator: Venter, Zander S
Creator: Shackleton, Charlie M
Creator: Van Staden, Francini
Creator: Selomane, Odirilwe
Creator: Masterson, Vanessa A
Date Issued: 2020
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
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Landscape and Urban Planning
Relation: 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
Relation: Landscape and Urban Planning volume 203 number p103889 November 2020 0169-2046
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