Unraveling Socio-Ecological Inequities in Outer London: Cluster-Based Resilience Planning

Qian Mao and Mingze Chen ()
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Qian Mao: Department of Landscape Architecture, College of Architecture, Planning & Landscape, Newcastle University, Newcastle NE1 7RU, UK
Mingze Chen: Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada

Land, 2025, vol. 14, issue 12, 1-22

Abstract: The sustainable development of cities urgently requires an understanding of the interaction between social equity and ecological quality, especially in the peri-urban areas that traditional environmental justice research has paid less attention to. Taking Outer London as an example in this study, the Comprehensive Social Equity Index (CSEI) and the Remote Sensing Ecological Index (RSEI) were constructed to explore the social–ecological coupling relationship and spatial heterogeneity. Four types of socio-ecological coupling were identified through the four-quadrant model, ordinary least squares (OLS), and multi-scale geographically weighted regression (MGWR). The results reveal the characteristics of nonlinear coupling: in addition to the dual disadvantages and advantages of society and ecology, there are also regional patterns where social conditions are advantageous, but ecology is degraded, and where society is weak, but ecology is rich. This indicates that there is a complex spatial dislocation relationship between society and ecology in the peri-urban. The research proposes a scale-sensitive governance strategy based on location, emphasizing the coordinated countermeasures of social reinvestment and ecological restoration, providing a new perspective for environmental justice and sustainable planning in the peri-urban areas of the UK.

Keywords: peri-urban; ecological; green space; multiscale geographically weighted regression; environmental justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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