Start Date
4-4-2023 1:10 PM
End Date
4-4-2023 1:49 PM
Abstract
Historic segregation and inequality are critical to understanding modern environmental conditions. Race-based zoning policies, such as redlining in the United States during the 1930s, are associated with racial inequity and adverse multigenerational socioeconomic levels in income and education, and disparate environmental characteristics including tree canopy cover across urban neighborhoods. Recent work quantifying the association between redlining and bird biodiversity information reveals that historically redlined neighborhoods remain the most undersampled urban areas for bird biodiversity today, potentially impacting conservation priorities and propagating urban environmental inequities across 195 cities in the United States. In fact, the disparity in sampling across redlined neighborhoods grades increased by approximately 40% over the past 20 years. The legal, social, and political consequences of such uneven distribution shaped by inequality and segregation will be discussed alongside ongoing initiatives for a more just sampling of biodiversity blending education, racial justice, science, and music.
Subjects
Conservation biology, Environmental social sciences
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/40492
Captions
Uneven Distribution of Biodiversity is Shaped by Inequality and Racial Segregation in the Age of Digital Information
Historic segregation and inequality are critical to understanding modern environmental conditions. Race-based zoning policies, such as redlining in the United States during the 1930s, are associated with racial inequity and adverse multigenerational socioeconomic levels in income and education, and disparate environmental characteristics including tree canopy cover across urban neighborhoods. Recent work quantifying the association between redlining and bird biodiversity information reveals that historically redlined neighborhoods remain the most undersampled urban areas for bird biodiversity today, potentially impacting conservation priorities and propagating urban environmental inequities across 195 cities in the United States. In fact, the disparity in sampling across redlined neighborhoods grades increased by approximately 40% over the past 20 years. The legal, social, and political consequences of such uneven distribution shaped by inequality and segregation will be discussed alongside ongoing initiatives for a more just sampling of biodiversity blending education, racial justice, science, and music.
