Mitchell, G orcid.org/0000-0003-0093-4519 and Norman, PD orcid.org/0000-0002-6211-1625 (2012) Longitudinal environmental justice analysis: Co-evolution of environmental quality and deprivation in England, 1960–2007. Geoforum, 43 (1). pp. 44-57. ISSN 0016-7185
Abstract
We describe contemporaneous changes in environmental quality and social deprivation in English local authority districts over four decades, using secondary source GIS modelled data on environmentally intrusive development. The distribution of this development is described with respect to the Townsend material deprivation score, corroborated against the Breadline Britain index. Spatial patterns of environmental intrusion and material deprivation change markedly over the period, although a clear environmental inequality remains throughout. However, it is not the most deprived who experience the greatest decline in their environmental quality, as most of the increase in environmental intrusion occurs in those districts whose population were amongst the most affluent in the early 1960s. We note that the environmental justice implications of these observations are dependent upon conceptions of justice held, and reflect on the challenge of testing, through empirical longitudinal analysis, the notion that environmental sustainability and social justice are incompatible.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Environmental justice; Environmental equity; Social deprivation; Longitudinal analysis; Time-series; Landscape intrusion |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > Centre for Spatial Analysis & Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Mar 2019 14:52 |
Last Modified: | 07 Mar 2019 14:52 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.08.005 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:100225 |