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Whose Green City?

Contested Urban Green Spaces and Environmental Justice in Northern Europe

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Editors:
  1. Bianka Plüschke-Altof

    1. School of Nat Sciences and Health, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

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  2. Helen Sooväli-Sepping

    1. School of Nat Sciences and Health, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

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  • Provides a comprehensive overview of empirical green space studies from the perspective of critical urban geography
  • Focuses on mixed method case study material and thereby goes beyond dominant quantitative approaches
  • Takes a strong user-centered perspective emphasizing the contextual boundedness of green space use

Part of the book series: Sustainable Development Goals Series (SDGS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Contested Urban Green Spaces and Environmental Justice in Northern Europe

    • Bianka Plüschke-Altof, Helen Sooväli-Sepping
    Pages 1-16Open Access

  3. Urban Green Spaces and the Question of Environmental Justice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. A Nearby Park or Forest Can Become Mount Everest. Access to Urban Green Areas by People in Wheelchair from an Environmental Justice Perspective: A Stockholm Case

      • Annika Dahlberg, Sara Borgström, Max Rautenberg, Nienke Sluimer
      Pages 19-40

    3. Not My Green Space? White Attitudes Towards Black Presence in UK Green Spaces. An Auto-ethnography

      • Beth Collier
      Pages 41-58

    4. Environmental Justice in the Post-socialist City. The Case of Riga, Latvia

      • Guido Sechi, Māris Bērziņš, Zaiga Krišjāne
      Pages 59-79

  4. Contested Urban Green Spaces

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Private Events in a Public Park: Contested Music Festivals and Environmental Justice in Finsbury Park, London

      • Andrew Smith, Guy Osborn, Goran Vodicka
      Pages 83-102Open Access

    3. Contested Urban Green Space Development: Rolling Back the Frontiers of Sustainability in Trondheim, Norway

      • Bradley Loewen, Stig Larssæther, Savis Gohari-Krangsås, Heidi Vinge, Alenka Temeljotov-Salaj
      Pages 103-123Open Access

    4. Same, Same but Different? The ‘Right’ Kind of Gardening and the Negotiation of Neoliberal Urban Governance in the Post-socialist City

      • Lilian Pungas, Bianka Plüschke-Altof, Anni Müüripeal, Helen Sooväli-Sepping
      Pages 125-144

    5. Science, Art and Other Ways of Knowing: A Proposal from a Struggle Over a Helsinki Green Space

      • Eeva Berglund
      Pages 145-162

    6. Contingent Urban Nature and Interactional Justice: The Evolving Coastal Spaces of the City of Tallinn

      • Tarmo Pikner
      Pages 163-182
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About this book

Against the backdrop of an accelerating global urbanization and related ecological, climatic or social challenges to urban sustainability, this book focuses on the access to “safe, inclusive and accessible green and public space” as outlined in United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal No. 11. Looking through the lens of environmental justice and contested urban spaces, it raises the question who ultimately benefits from a green city development, and – even more importantly – who does not. While green space benefits are well-documented, green space provision is faced by multiple challenges in an era of urban neoliberalism. With their interdisciplinary and multi-method approach, the chapters in this book carefully study the different dimensions of green space access with particular focus on vulnerable groups, critically evaluate cases of procedural injustice and, in the case of Northern Europe that is often seen as forerunner of urban sustainability, provide in-depth studies on the contexts of injustices in urban greening.

Chapters 1, 5, and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.



Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Nat Sciences and Health, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Bianka Plüschke-Altof, Helen Sooväli-Sepping

About the editors

Bianka Plüschke-Altof is Researcher in Environmental Sociology at the School of Natural Sciences and Health at Tallinn University and Lecturer in Qualitative Research at the University of Tartu. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Tartu and an undergraduate in Social Sciences from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research concentrates on questions of socio-spatial and environmental justice, with specific focus on Central-Eastern Europe. As part of the research group on “Human-nature interactions in the city” at Tallinn University she investigates urban (green space) planning for sustainability, the governance of urban gardening, and environmental activism.

Helen Sooväli-Sepping is a Professor in Environmental Management at Tallinn University and Vice-Rector at Tallinn University of Technology, with specific focus on the organization’s green transition. She holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Tartu in Estonia. Her research lies in the field of environmental studies in urban space (participatory planning, urban green commons, sustainable mobility), and cultural geography (especially heritage culture, cultural sustainability, landscape imaginary). She leads the research group on “Human-nature interactions in the city” at Tallinn University


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