RT Journal Article
T1 Backyards Are a Way to Promote Environmental Justice and Biodiversity Conservation in Brazilian Cities
A1 Lima, Gedeone Ferreira
A1 Correa Santos, Jeater Waldemar Maciel
A1 Albertin, Ricardo Massulo
A1 Martínez Miranzo, Beatriz
A1 Souza, Franco L.
A1 Angeoletto, Fabio
AB 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.
PB MDPI
SN 1424-2818
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/121720
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/121720
LA eng
NO Lima, G.F.; Correa Santos, J.W.M.; Albertin, R.M.; Martínez-Miranzo, B.; Souza, F.L.; Angeoletto, F. Backyards Are a Way to Promote Environmental Justice and Biodiversity Conservation in Brazilian Cities. Diversity 2023, 15, 815. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/d15070815
NO This research was funded by Maria Zambrano UCM contract, financed by the Ministry of Universities with Next Generation funds from the European (B.M.M.); Brazilian National Council Research (CNPq), grant number 307599/2021-3 (F.L.S.) and Fundação de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento do Ensino, Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul (FUNDECT), grant number 71/011.029/2022 (F.A.). The APC was funded by Fabio Angeoletto.
NO Universidad Complutense de Madrid
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
NO European Commission
NO Conselho nacional de desenvolvimento cientifico e technologico (Brasil)
NO Fundação de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento do Ensino, Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul
DS Docta Complutense
RD 26 feb 2026