Under one canopy? Assessing the distributional environmental justice implications of street tree benefits in Barcelona.

ABSTRACT: Street trees are an important component of green infrastructure in cities, providing multiple ecosystem services (ES) and hence contributing to urban resilience, sustainability and livability. Still, access to these benefits may display an uneven distribution across the urban fabric, potentially leading to socio-environmental inequalities. Some studies have analyzed the distributional justice implications of street tree spatial patterns, but generally without quantifying the associated ES provision. This research estimated the amount of air purification, runoff mitigation and temperature regulation provided by circa 200,000 street trees in Barcelona, Spain, using the i-Tree Eco tool. Results were aggregated at neighborhood (n = 73) and census tract (n = 1068) levels to detect associations

SUBMITTER: Baro F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6855261 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature