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

该项目旨在调查水培垂直森林在社会住房设计中的使用，以增加城市生物多样性，减少污染，并缩小伦敦住房收入健康差距，谈到ESRC目前在气候变化和住房方面的优先事项。它将汇集一个全面的、多维的数据集，以增强城市社会住房背景下垂直森林的经济可行性和更广泛的好处--环境可持续性，解决社会和经济不平等，以及改善心理健康和福祉。它将结合人文地理学、批判性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。利用包括生物多样性抽样、地理信息系统、访谈和焦点小组在内的创新混合方法，这项研究将促进对获得绿地与生物多样性、生态系统服务、健康、排斥和城市不平等之间复杂关系的理解。此外，通过与当地主要利益攸关方合作，并让公民直接参与共同制定未来城市绿化倡议的执行指南，该项目将制定一份蓝图，以对抗普遍存在的绿色中产阶级化的动态，在这种动态中，基于自然的解决办法和城市中的其他环境倡议往往会加剧不平等并促进社会排斥。这位学生将与纽汉市议会、布伦特议会、环境局和环境建筑师斯特凡诺·博埃里合作。博埃里、道恩·巴特勒议员、纽汉市议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。总体而言，该项目不仅寻求为社会科学和环境科学的学术知识做出重要贡献，而且还旨在增强当地社区的能力，以制定未来城市变革--特别是城市绿化项目--的实施条件。

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.