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Environmental Quality and Poverty in Montevideo: A Spatial Approach to Exploring Environmental Injustices

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    Identifier:  imarina:9452278
    Authors:  Lorenzo, SC; Albert, YP; González, JA
    Abstract:
    The distributive environmental justice approach focuses on analysing the spatial patterns of environmental effects and identifying situations of inequality between different social groups. These inequalities may be related to specific impacts or be the result of accumulated benefits or harms to certain populations, the latter aspect being less investigated globally and, in particular, in Latin America. This work aims to analyse the existence of environmental injustices in the city of Montevideo (Uruguay). For this purpose, an environmental quality index (EQI) composed of five subindices is proposed: pollution, exposure to risks, health impacts, habitat quality and availability of green spaces, and their relationship with the level of poverty is evaluated through descriptive analyses and spatial regression models. The results reveal an inverse relationship between the cumulative environmental quality and poverty level, this being especially marked in the subindices of environmental pollution and habitat quality. In contrast, the availability of green spaces presents a more favourable situation for the poorest groups of the population. This study highlights the importance of analysing environmental injustices through multiple indicator-based approaches and highlights the need to incorporate these perspectives into the study of cities with high levels of segregation.
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    Link to the original source: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/14/3/150
    APA: Lorenzo, SC; Albert, YP; González, JA (2025). Environmental Quality and Poverty in Montevideo: A Spatial Approach to Exploring Environmental Injustices. Social Sciences, 14(3), 150-. DOI: 10.3390/socsci14030150
    Paper original source: Social Sciences. 14 (3): 150-
    Article's DOI: 10.3390/socsci14030150
    Journal publication year: 2025-02-28
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Paper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Record's date: 2026-02-13
    URV's Author/s: Alberich González, Joan / Perez Albert, Maria Yolanda
    Department: Geografia
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Publication Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
    Author, as appears in the article.: Lorenzo, SC; Albert, YP; González, JA
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Thematic Areas: Anthropology, Ciencias humanas, Ciencias sociales, Cultural studies, Economics, Engenharias iii, Gender studies, General o multidisciplinar, General social sciences, History, History & philosophy of science, Human geography and urban studies, Interdisciplinar, Interdisciplinary research in the social sciences, Law, Linguística e literatura, Linguistics, Media studies and communication, Political sciences and international relations, Psicología, Psychology, Social sciences (all), Social sciences (miscellaneous), Social sciences, interdisciplinary, Social statistics and informatics, Sociology
    Author's mail: joan.alberich@urv.cat, myolanda.perez@urv.cat
  • Keywords:

    Air-pollution
    Cumulative impacts
    Disparities
    Ecolog
    Environmental equity
    Environmental justice
    Impacts
    Indicator
    Indicators
    Inequalities
    Inequity
    Justice
    Montreal
    Santiago
    Spatial analysis
    Social Sciences (Miscellaneous)
    Social Sciences
    Interdisciplinary
    Anthropology
    Ciencias humanas
    Ciencias sociales
    Cultural studies
    Economics
    Engenharias iii
    Gender studies
    General o multidisciplinar
    General social sciences
    History
    History & philosophy of science
    Human geography and urban studies
    Interdisciplinar
    Interdisciplinary research in the social sciences
    Law
    Linguística e literatura
    Linguistics
    Media studies and communication
    Political sciences and international relations
    Psicología
    Psychology
    Social sciences (all)
    Social statistics and informatics
    Sociology
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