Sustainability in Social Housing: housing design to mitigate disparities in greenspace access in London

该项目旨在研究水耕垂直森林在社会住房设计中的应用，以增加城市生物多样性，减少污染，并减少伦敦住房的收入健康差距，从而解决当前ESRC在气候变化和住房方面的优先事项。它将汇集一个全面的多维数据集，以提高城市社会住房环境中垂直森林的经济可行性和更广泛的效益——环境可持续性、解决社会和经济不平等问题、改善心理健康和福祉。它将结合人文地理学、批判环境社会科学和以城市生态为重点的环境科学的理论和方法方法。利用生物多样性采样、地理信息系统、访谈和焦点小组等创新的混合方法，该研究将促进对城市中获得绿色空间与生物多样性、生态系统服务、健康、排斥和不平等之间复杂关系的理解。此外，通过与当地主要利益相关者合作，并让公民直接参与未来城市绿化倡议实施指南的共同制定，该项目将制定一份蓝图，以应对普遍存在的绿色高绅化趋势，在这种趋势中，基于自然的解决方案和城市中的其他环境举措经常会加剧不平等和促进社会排斥。奖学金获得者将与纽汉委员会、布伦特委员会、环境署和环境建筑师Stefano Boeri合作。Boeri， Dawn Butler议员，Newham委员会和公务员环境网络已经为这项研究写了支持和合作的信件。总体而言，该项目寻求不仅在社会和环境科学领域的学术知识方面做出重要贡献，而且赋予当地社区权力，以制定未来城市转型（尤其是城市绿化项目）的条件。

This project seeks to investigate the use of hydroponic vertical forests in social housing design to increase urban biodiversity, decrease pollution, and lessen the income health gap in housing in London, speaking to current ESRC priorities on climate change and housing. It will assemble a comprehensive, multi-dimensional dataset for enhancing the economic feasibility and wider benefits - for environmental sustainability, tackling social and economic inequalities, and improving mental health and wellbeing - of vertical forests in urban social housing contexts. It will combine theoretical and methodological approaches from human geography, critical environmental social science, and environmental science focused on urban ecologies. Drawing on an innovative mixed-methods approach including biodiversity sampling, GIS, interviews and focus groups, the research will advance understandings of the complex relationships between access to greenspace and biodiversity, ecosystem services, health, exclusion and inequality in cities. Moreover, by working with key local stakeholders and engaging citizens directly in the co-production of guidelines for the implementation of future urban greening initiatives, the project will develop a blueprint for counteracting prevalent dynamics of green gentrification, in which nature-based solutions and other environmental initiatives in cities frequently act to reinforce inequalities and promote social exclusion. The studentship holder will work in collaboration with Newham Council, Brent Council, the Environment Agency, and environmental architect Stefano Boeri. Boeri, Dawn Butler MP, Newham Council, and the Civil Service Environment Network have written letters of support and collaboration for this research. Overall, the project seeks to make important contributions not simply to academic knowledge across the social and environmental sciences, but also to empower local communities to shape the terms on which future urban transformations-especially urban greening projects-are enacted.