Environmental Justice and Green Infrastructure in the Ruhr. From Distributive to Institutional Conceptions of Justice

Over the last 50 years, the Ruhr region experienced a remarkable transformation from an industrial to a post-industrial region. With regard to the rehabilitation of the environmental damages of more than 100 years of coal mining and steel production, investment in green infrastructure, and the creat...

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Autores principales:	Karsten Zimmermann, Dahae Lee
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	green infrastructure post-industrial region Ruhr region governance environmental justice Science (General) Q1-390 Social sciences (General) H1-99
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/30445109d5ec4d16b73515ce590487a5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:30445109d5ec4d16b73515ce590487a52021-11-18T17:27:23ZEnvironmental Justice and Green Infrastructure in the Ruhr. From Distributive to Institutional Conceptions of Justice2624-963410.3389/frsc.2021.670190https://doaj.org/article/30445109d5ec4d16b73515ce590487a52021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2021.670190/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/2624-9634Over the last 50 years, the Ruhr region experienced a remarkable transformation from an industrial to a post-industrial region. With regard to the rehabilitation of the environmental damages of more than 100 years of coal mining and steel production, investment in green infrastructure, and the creation of regional landscape parks constituted one of the main pillars of the economic and physical transformation of the region. However, little is known about the social effects of this green transformation. Many observers state that the Ruhr area is sharply divided by an east–west line (the A40 Highway) and in fact the Emscher zone was hit most by environmental degradation. We argue that environmental justice is a question of scale. While on the regional scale, the investments made in the Emscher zone can be seen as a trial to balance and repair a long-standing unequal provision with environmental qualities (not least parks), on a smaller scale (i.e., cities and neighbourhoods) we can demonstrate that in the cities of the Emscher zone environmental inequality is still observable. Some neighbourhoods benefit stronger from investment in regional parks and green infrastructure than others. The paper will describe the Emscher green regeneration programme and will give detailed insights into two cities of the Ruhr (including maps and data analysis).Karsten ZimmermannDahae LeeFrontiers Media S.A.articlegreen infrastructurepost-industrial regionRuhr regiongovernanceenvironmental justiceScience (General)Q1-390Social sciences (General)H1-99ENFrontiers in Sustainable Cities, Vol 3 (2021)
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description	Over the last 50 years, the Ruhr region experienced a remarkable transformation from an industrial to a post-industrial region. With regard to the rehabilitation of the environmental damages of more than 100 years of coal mining and steel production, investment in green infrastructure, and the creation of regional landscape parks constituted one of the main pillars of the economic and physical transformation of the region. However, little is known about the social effects of this green transformation. Many observers state that the Ruhr area is sharply divided by an east–west line (the A40 Highway) and in fact the Emscher zone was hit most by environmental degradation. We argue that environmental justice is a question of scale. While on the regional scale, the investments made in the Emscher zone can be seen as a trial to balance and repair a long-standing unequal provision with environmental qualities (not least parks), on a smaller scale (i.e., cities and neighbourhoods) we can demonstrate that in the cities of the Emscher zone environmental inequality is still observable. Some neighbourhoods benefit stronger from investment in regional parks and green infrastructure than others. The paper will describe the Emscher green regeneration programme and will give detailed insights into two cities of the Ruhr (including maps and data analysis).
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title	Environmental Justice and Green Infrastructure in the Ruhr. From Distributive to Institutional Conceptions of Justice
title_short	Environmental Justice and Green Infrastructure in the Ruhr. From Distributive to Institutional Conceptions of Justice
title_full	Environmental Justice and Green Infrastructure in the Ruhr. From Distributive to Institutional Conceptions of Justice
title_fullStr	Environmental Justice and Green Infrastructure in the Ruhr. From Distributive to Institutional Conceptions of Justice
title_full_unstemmed	Environmental Justice and Green Infrastructure in the Ruhr. From Distributive to Institutional Conceptions of Justice
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Environmental Justice and Green Infrastructure in the Ruhr. From Distributive to Institutional Conceptions of Justice

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