Urban Inequality: Approaches and Narratives

Gyuris, Ferenc

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“…The ever-increasing social and income gap between the poor and rich is continuing to grow in the country as well as in the CEE region (Kolosi, Keller 2010;. Signi•cant territorial inequalities in which the urban-rural dichotomy plays a key role can be detected at the national and regional levels (Alpek B., Tésits 2020;Gyuris 2017;Máté, Pirisi, Trócsányi 2017;Pál et al 2021). Geographical location plays a primary role in other inequalities as well, such as health status (Uzzoli et al 2020), which a•ects the wellbeing of the people.…”

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Environmental Justice and its geographical aspects in Hungary

Nagy

2021

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In recent decades, environmental justice has become a defining concept in socio-spatial inequality research, political debates, and activism. Environmental justice research, which is essentially based on theories of social and spatial justice and providesa normative framework for thinking, focuses on the unequal distribution of environmental harms and risks and their social consequences. Environmental justice research aims to explore the economic, social, health, and legal differences that individuals and groups face in their environment as a result of environmental processes, decision making, power relations, and law enforcement practices. This is largely related to the subjective perception of individuals and the perception of injustices by different actors. In the vast majority of environmental justice studies, spatiality provides a framework for interpreting and understanding environmentally unjust situations and processes. Environmental justice is therefore not only a natural, but also a socially dependent phenomenon, in which the key element is nevertheless the non-human factor (e.g. environmental events such as floods), which affects individuals and groups indifferent ways. As a result, an environmentally unjust state and situation may occur. The evolved injustices also interact with inherited spatial inequalities, existing socioeconomic systems, and the institutional structures that originally shape them. This paper summarizes the theoretical framework of environmental justice in geography and spatial sciences. The study adapts the theory of justice to post-socialist and Hungarian specificities and forms of environmental injustice, and examines decision-making processes and the perception of risks. In Hungary social problems and differences have been increasing in recent decades, and marginalisation and polarisation processes have added new spatial patterns to existing inequalities, directly and indirectly affecting environmental processes as well. Attempts at eliminating environmental injustices have resulted in new injustices, or deepened existing ones, due to the lack of a complex socio-environmental spatial approach of interventions. The solution to these injustices presupposes the effective and meaningful involvement of the affected people in policy-making and implementation processes, regardless of gender, age, origin, identity, or income. Otherwise, the unjust situation will persist and crisis areas affected by environmental injustices may develop.

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Environmental Justice and its geographical aspects in Hungary

Nagy

2021

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“…Translation : Guilherme Ribeiro (PPGGEO/LAPEHGE/UFRRJ) Desigualdade espacial: um tema clássico, sobretudo em nossos dias 1 Em todo o mundo, a desigualdade espacial é um dos temas mais populares da geografia atual, além de atrair amplo espectro das Ciências Sociais interessadas no fenômeno espacial como a Economia Regional e a Sociologia Urbana (Gyuris, 2014(Gyuris, , 2017. Tal interesse advém, em primeiro lugar, dos proeminentes desafios sociais das últimas décadas, os quais estão presentes nas mais diversas escalas geográficas -da diferença ainda marcante entre países do Norte e do Sul globais (vide Gyuris, 2018a, Solarz, 2014 às crescentes disparidades regionais em várias nações, além do incremento das desigualdades no interior dos espaços urbanos.…”

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Desigualdades espaciais a partir de uma perspectiva do Centro-Leste europeu: estudos de caso sobre a Hungria

Gyuris¹

2018

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Spatial Inequality

Gyuris

2021

International Encyclopedia of Geography

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Spatial inequalities are the geographical projection of social inequalities. Their analysis lends a visibility to certain aspects of social inequalities. Spatial inequality is a multiscalar phenomenon that occurs in bordered and territorialized topographical entities as well as in topological flows and networks. It is often considered a matter of distribution, although various approaches differ in interpreting distribution either as an arrangement, or a participative process, or a product of production determined by the relations of production. Spatial inequality is a highly political issue and the scientific tradition of investigating it has always been part of a political discourse. Related concepts have thus been embedded into their historical and geographical contexts and have reflected the specific interests of those who formulated them – from nineteenth‐century “moral statistics” approaches to geopolitical concepts during the Cold War to more recent Marxist, feminist, humanist, and ecological concepts.

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Urban Inequality: Approaches and Narratives

Cited by 4 publications

References 85 publications

Environmental Justice and its geographical aspects in Hungary

Environmental Justice and its geographical aspects in Hungary

Desigualdades espaciais a partir de uma perspectiva do Centro-Leste europeu: estudos de caso sobre a Hungria

Spatial Inequality

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