Greenspace, asthma, and inequality

Minion is Mary Barnes River, and my topic for my

final paper is urban green space.

I was one and what it has to do with

environmental inequality.

I'm also recording this outside.

I apologize, not Prezi.

So the main points I'd like to drive home is

that green space is unequally distributed to wealthy areas.

Urban green space functions with the mediator of air pollution,

especially in high traffic areas.

Exposure to air pollution tends to cause an increase in

asthma reads in severity because of higher rates of minorities

and lower income in urban areas, they visit dis proportional

risk of developing asthma because of their lack of greens

is so what is greens ways?

Green spaces anywhere.

That's great.

Essentially, um, for the purposes of this presentation, I'm going

to focus more on city parks.

Just because they provide a lot of valuable ecosystem service

is that series wouldn't normally have, uh, they tend to

break up population density, which lowers the amount of traffic

in an area won't get to what that's really positive.

And on top of all those reasons, it's the most

studies, especially when pertaining to this subject.

So don't give us yeah, where where is green?

But this right is.

It's in the B well, long story.

Short instance, being wealthier neighborhoods like the first lady I

mentioned says that poverty levels were negatively associated with distances.

The public part poverty levels were also negatively associate ID

with percentage of green space in an urban area.

So that means that, as in from Lebert level, uh,

it's lower.

The distances to public parts tend to be hired, and

the amount of green space available toe, not part uh,

tends to be lower.

This despite that Ah, the second study I mentioned mainly

for the last point.

Lower income areas had high reliance on public green space

for ecosystem service is basically what the study is saying

is that wealthier areas tend tohave yards.

They didn't have more private green space on top of

having, uh, public green space, even though lower income areas

tend to need it more.

So who's affected by all this?

Who wants to go to these parts?

Uh, when a park is getting proposed to governments, especially

for funding, it's because of comments for the city.

Uh, so when advocating for the expansion of people park,

the city council member is trotted us, saying Great cities

have great parts, they have great city parts.

And I think our botanic garden in Piedmont Park are

an example of that.

So you can see the rhetoric of this park is

for the city, even though it isn't really gentrified part

later. So despite the rhetoric that it's for the city,

the people let him to go to.

These parts are overwhelmingly white, and they're overwhelmingly, uh, not

lower income.

Uh, since there's very little recordkeeping at city parks, I

used information from national parks because there are urban national

parks, such a swollen gate National Recreation area.

So I think it's a fair comparison.

So a survey back in 2008 through 2009 found that

visitation records don't reflect the diversity of the country country.

Uh, I also found that non white business were more

likely to have complaints about park service or safety, and

that they were more likely to report that national parks

were too far away or the the food or hotel

costars way too high, or that they didn't have enough

information about what to do in the part.

So this is a graph.

Um, that compares the national park visitation demographics with the

demographics of the U.

S. As a whole.

Ah, and you can see that 78% of the business

news of national ports were white compared to you, the

9% of Hispanic, the 7% of black in the 3%

of Asian also but 1% of Native American real lasting.

So, Rob, does this relate to wilderness?

Our Cronin's idea folder is, um so we've already the

trouble with will this or getting back to the wrong

nature. So let's focus on the second part of the

slide. The problem was seeing parts of wilderness.

Uh, green space starts to be seen as a luxury.

It's something we can live without.

Cities don't originally plan that have green space integrated into

their infrastructure.

And what happens is that cities tend to get back

to nature rather than including it.

Originally, Parcher developed rather than, uh included originally, that's a

look terrible.

But, uh, what does that have to do with how

smart rates?

So where do you start off with asthma?

General? They were going to go with inequality, and then

we're going to go to the connection to the whole

green space thing.

So we all know asthma is.

Most people probably know someone without one, because it's fairly

common. Um, however, your severity is radical difference, uh, depending

on the environment, a development.

So, uh, there is a genetic component, but it's largely

environmentally influence.

Um, and there's a lot of evidence that air pollution

in particular, can help trigger its development.

I also wanted to add the treatment costed asthma.

So as of 2015 the treatment of as my costing

individual about upper to $3000 a year, which one we're

thinking about low income people we can't just think about,

huh? Who's getting sick?

We have to think about what kind of bourbon isn't

putting on them financially.

So not everyone has an equal risk of having asthma

according to statistics.

So the old way of thinking about this is urban

versus rural.

So it was believed for a long time that urban

areas, just something about them, made people more likely to

get asthma.

And it was across all urban areas it was, and

that if you lived in a rural area, it was

somehow less like me that you would get at, um

this, I think is an example of something that's a

political. Uh, it didn't really look at anything other than

where they lived.

Um, and recently, uh, they started factoring in race.

Just race.

Ah, discrepancies in the income disparities in, uh, geographic area.

I mean, some places just have more allergens and others,

and what they found is that this effect tends to

disappeared. Uh, especially when you factor in income disparities in

race. That doesn't mean it's equal.

So let's look at one of the more terrifying graphs

that I've seen.

Uh, so this is asthma prevalence by poverty level.

So when you're looking at those, the green bar is

the lowest income, which you can see it all three

categories. It's a lot higher than the other ones.

This graph is basically saying that lower income people have

a vastly higher your chance of acquiring asthma and related

to that.

If you are black or another minority, you also have

a higher chance of developing asthma.

So you see that black and Puerto Rican have the

highest. Uh, hi.

They have the highest representation of those with asthma.

Um, in this works in conjunction with the income thing.

Uh, it also works in conjunction of like the thought

behind the pain.

Genetic. So how does this connect the whole greens basing?

So I'm glad you asked, Uh, it connects in two

different ways.

So the first is mediation of air pollution.

And I started three different study to your mainly to

say that there's a lot of information that says that

air pollution, especially traffic pollution, is so bad for asthma

for its development for its, um, symptoms in differed severity.

Uh, the 1st 1 essentially says that green space when

you factored out pollution, um, accessibility to green space, especially

urban green space, was found to lower asthma rates.

Um, and then various ah, various types, huh?

Vegetation were shown to be more effective at mediating pollution.

The second study I mentioned is essentially that some people

have a genetic predisposition to, uh, air pollution, triggering the

development of asthma.

The third study is absolutely terrifying.

So I highlighted the word epigenetic because what that means

is not only do you have an increased risk of

getting asthma from traffic related air pollution, but you have

a risk of passing it on to your Children.

And now we're gonna look at hygiene hypothesis, which is

a fairly old idea.

So back in 19 eighties, it was thought the, uh

urbanization, especially in the developed world, was leading to increase

as well rates because kids weren't being exposed to that

as many my groups.

So it's probably not that simple, is what a modern

thought is, but there is some interesting evidence towards it.

So this one study, uh, essentially concluded that exposure to

certain microbes during childhood did alter the way that your

body reacts that in an asthmatic person's body would react

to allergens.

Um, in two different ways, um, and it both kind

of a long stories are going to move on, But

me excited and such So the the second study I'm

citing is the comparison between people Children who grew up

on farms and Children who did not.

And what they found is that Children who grew up

on farms tended toe have less as Noah because they

were exposed Teoh animals in unpasteurized milk and just essentially

more microbes.

And I add this side note just says Lee, I'm

running out of time.

I've ran out of time, but I just thought it

was a really cool video.

And yeah, I will also include that, uh oh, Alston

in my presentation, in case anyone wanted to actually watch

that. Um, finally, some concluding thoughts.

Um, we've learned that green space, when viewed as a

luxury, tends to be allocated to wealthier areas.

These green spaces, such as national parks and their benefits,

are majority majority majority terribly distributed to white people.

The unequal distribution of greens based creates areas that are

more at risk to more at risk of its residents

developing asthma.

Um, since black and minority and other minorities are more

representative, low income areas, they face a higher risk of

development about development and exacerbation of asthma.

And this really relates to what's going on with Kobe.

19. This the idea that green space somehow has something

to do live Kobe in 19.

Well, I've just made the connection.

Asthma is a risk factor.

Force of your cases.

Look, Kogan, 19 maybe somehow equalizing the amount of green

space in areas will help Germany asthma and thus diseases

like this in the future.

So that's what I have to say.

But thank you for watching and yeah,

Greenspace, asthma, and inequality

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