ABSTRACT

This paper takes an urban planning perspective on environmental justice by separately analysing vulnerable socioeconomic groups for multiple environmental burden (EB) at the neighbourhood level in Berlin. We selected five socioeconomic groups: i) beneficiaries of social welfare, ii) inhabitants with migration background, iii) old-age poverty, iv) child poverty, and v) single-parent households. Four ecological indicators, i) air pollution, ii) noise pollution, iii) bioclimate (heat stress), and iv) lack of urban green spaces were merged to assess multiple EB at the Planning Area Level. Combining environmental and socioeconomic maps we identified hotspots of environmental injustice (EIJ) and demonstrate that selected vulnerable socioeconomic groups are disproportionately more affected by multiple EB than population not belonging to these groups. Some of the identified hotspots overlap, except for single-parent households. Finally, multi-purpose planning measures that mitigate the EBs considering the needs of the socioeconomic groups are recommended.

摘要

本文从城市规划的角度看待环境正义，通过分别分析柏林社区层面的多重环境负担 (EB) 的弱势社会经济群体。我们选择了五个社会经济群体：i) 社会福利受益人，ii) 有移民背景的居民，iii) 老年贫困，iv) 儿童贫困，以及v) 单亲家庭。四个生态指标，i) 空气污染，ii) 噪音污染，iii) 生物气候（热应激），以及iv) 缺乏城市绿地合并以在规划区域级别评估多个 EB。结合环境和社会经济地图，我们确定了环境不公正 (EIJ) 的热点，并表明与不属于这些群体的人群相比，选定的弱势社会经济群体受多重 EB 的影响更大。除了单亲家庭外，一些已确定的热点重叠。最后，考虑到社会经济群体的需求，建议采取多用途规划措施来减轻 EB。