Backyards Are a Way to Promote Environmental Justice and Biodiversity Conservation in Brazilian Cities
Brazilian cities feature quite unequal neighborhoods. Middle-class neighborhoods have better infrastructure than those inhabited by low-income families. These inequalities are not limited to social and economic scopes; they also reach the environmental one. Tree cover in these neighborhoods is often...
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| author | Gedeone Ferreira Lima Jeater Waldemar Maciel Correa Santos Ricardo Massulo Albertin Beatriz Martínez-Miranzo Franco L. Souza Fabio Angeoletto |
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| description | Brazilian cities feature quite unequal neighborhoods. Middle-class neighborhoods have better infrastructure than those inhabited by low-income families. These inequalities are not limited to social and economic scopes; they also reach the environmental one. Tree cover in these neighborhoods is often correlated to residents’ socioeconomic status. Injustice in access to trees deprives Brazilians of their ecosystem services. Furthermore, the scarcity of tree cover in the poorest neighborhoods means less support for biodiversity. Thus, backyards can be planned to form vegetation patches capable of providing urban populations with access to green areas, as well as working as wildlife habitats. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-561b6df594fe41bca948fa9172620cae2023-11-18T18:59:35ZengMDPI AGDiversity1424-28182023-06-0115781510.3390/d15070815Backyards Are a Way to Promote Environmental Justice and Biodiversity Conservation in Brazilian CitiesGedeone Ferreira Lima0Jeater Waldemar Maciel Correa Santos1Ricardo Massulo Albertin2Beatriz Martínez-Miranzo3Franco L. Souza4Fabio Angeoletto5Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografía, Universidade Federal de Rondonópolis, Rondonópolis 78736-900, BrazilPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Geografía, Universidade Federal de Rondonópolis, Rondonópolis 78736-900, BrazilPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Geografía, Universidade Federal de Rondonópolis, Rondonópolis 78736-900, BrazilDepartment of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Jose Antonio Novais, 12, 28040 Madrid, SpainUniversidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande 79070-900, BrazilPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Geografía, Universidade Federal de Rondonópolis, Rondonópolis 78736-900, BrazilBrazilian cities feature quite unequal neighborhoods. Middle-class neighborhoods have better infrastructure than those inhabited by low-income families. These inequalities are not limited to social and economic scopes; they also reach the environmental one. Tree cover in these neighborhoods is often correlated to residents’ socioeconomic status. Injustice in access to trees deprives Brazilians of their ecosystem services. Furthermore, the scarcity of tree cover in the poorest neighborhoods means less support for biodiversity. Thus, backyards can be planned to form vegetation patches capable of providing urban populations with access to green areas, as well as working as wildlife habitats.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/7/815backyardsurban biodiversityenvironmental injusticeurban ecological corridorsurban ecologyBrazilian cities |
| spellingShingle | Gedeone Ferreira Lima Jeater Waldemar Maciel Correa Santos Ricardo Massulo Albertin Beatriz Martínez-Miranzo Franco L. Souza Fabio Angeoletto Backyards Are a Way to Promote Environmental Justice and Biodiversity Conservation in Brazilian Cities Diversity backyards urban biodiversity environmental injustice urban ecological corridors urban ecology Brazilian cities |
| title | Backyards Are a Way to Promote Environmental Justice and Biodiversity Conservation in Brazilian Cities |
| title_full | Backyards Are a Way to Promote Environmental Justice and Biodiversity Conservation in Brazilian Cities |
| title_fullStr | Backyards Are a Way to Promote Environmental Justice and Biodiversity Conservation in Brazilian Cities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Backyards Are a Way to Promote Environmental Justice and Biodiversity Conservation in Brazilian Cities |
| title_short | Backyards Are a Way to Promote Environmental Justice and Biodiversity Conservation in Brazilian Cities |
| title_sort | backyards are a way to promote environmental justice and biodiversity conservation in brazilian cities |
| topic | backyards urban biodiversity environmental injustice urban ecological corridors urban ecology Brazilian cities |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/7/815 |
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