ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the issue of environmental inequalities related to greenspaces and explores possible solutions for dealing with the complexities and dynamics of urban areas to reduce greenspaces inequalities. Ensuring equality requires that the standards are mandatory, clear, and focus on qualitative and quantitative features of greenspaces that can satisfy the needs for multiple user groups from deprived communities. Distributive inequality addresses the unequal allocation and access among different social groups to greenspaces and its associated benefits. Community initiatives to improve greenspaces in deprived neighborhoods have an important role in developing areas according to local people’s preferences. Community groups, by themselves or supported by the government, should build collaborative networks or umbrella organizations in order to have more relevance in decision-making for the protection and monitoring of urban greenspaces. According to the environmental justice framework there are three main dimensions that must be explored to fully understand and address urban greenspace inequalities: geographical distribution, recognition and participation.
