Authors
Kelley E Langhans, Alejandra Echeverri, S Caroline Daws, Sydney N Moss, Christopher B Anderson, Rebecca Chaplin‐Kramer, J Nicholas Hendershot, Lingling Liu, Lisa Mandle, Oliver Nguyen, Suzanne X Ou, Roy P Remme, Rafael JP Schmitt, Adrian Vogl, Gretchen C Daily
Publication date
2023/6
Source
People and Nature
Volume
5
Issue
3
Pages
897-910
Description
- As humanity has become increasingly urban, a growing number of people have been deprived of access to nature and the benefits it provides. This is especially true for marginalized groups, who often live in neighbourhoods where nature has been so diminished and degraded that it provides fewer types, and much lower levels of benefits.
- We review the literatures on human–nature relationships, urban sustainability and justice to create an actionable definition of ‘access to nature’ that people can use to advocate for and guide investments that improve access to nature in urban contexts.
- We show how the interplay of three dimensions of justice—recognitional, procedural and distributional—determines access to nature in cities, and how these dimensions are core to increasing access to urban nature.
- We present a design thinking framework that centres justice in creating interventions for access to nature …
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