eprintid: 3740
rev_number: 5
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datestamp: 2021-11-03 12:47:42
lastmod: 2021-11-03 12:47:42
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type: thesis
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sword_depositor: 1
creators_name: Hoekstra, Martijn
creators_id: S3775542
creators_email: M.hoekstra.35@student.rug.nl
title: Urban Green Space Accessibility: An Environmental Justice based Research
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
abstract: The importance of urban green spaces has become ever more clear during the Covid-19 pandemic. 
In times during which there is not much which can be done, urban green spaces have been a 
solution to relieve stress and offer the possibility of meeting up with other people. 
It is not self-evident, however, that everyone experiences the same accessibility to such important 
spaces. The present study seeks to explain how urban green space accessibility is perceived from 
an environmental justice perspective. 
By utilizing a case-study and qualitative statistical means, an inquiry has been made in order to 
find out if relevant socio-demographic groups have equal opportunity to access urban green 
spaces.
Results show no significant differences among socio-demographic groups regarding their 
accessibility to urban green spaces. Therefore, the urban green space accessibility can be regarded 
as just
date: 2021
pages: 40
thesis_type: bachelor
degree_programme: TP
tutors_name: Saleh, M.M.I.M.
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Planologie
tutors_email: Mohamed.Saleh@rug.nl
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keywords_local: environment
keywords_local: justice
keywords_local: case-study
language_iso: en
agreed_repository: yes
date_issued: 2021-10-30
citation:   Hoekstra, Martijn  (2021) Urban Green Space Accessibility: An Environmental Justice based Research.  Bachelor thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3740/1/Martijn%20Hoekstra%2C%20s3775542%2C%20Final%20thesis.pdf