Whose Green City?

lt;p>Helen Sooväli-Sepping is Professor of Environmental Management at the School of Natural Sciences and Health and a senior research at the Centre for Landscape and Culture at Tallinn University in Estonia. She holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Tartu. Her research focuses on the field of environmental studies in urban space (participatory planning, urban green commons, sustainable mobility), and cultural geography (especially heritage culture, cultural sustainability, landscape imaginary). She has published more than 20 articles in international journals and has prior experiences in editing (Sooväli-Sepping, H. et al (eds.) Ruptured Landscapes: Landscape, Identity and Social Change. Dordrecht: Springer), most recently as editor-in-chief of the 2020 Estonian Human Development Report entitled "Public Space and Democracy".

Bianka Plüschke-Altof is Researcher in Environmental Sociology at the School of Natural Sciences and Health at Tallinn University. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Tartu and an undergraduate in Social Sciences from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research focuses on human-nature relations in the city, as well as questions of environmental and socio-spatial justice (especially in CEE). She has published more than 10 publications in national and international journals and has prior experiences in editing, most recently as guest editor of the special issue on "(Not) my green city? The role of green space for a sustainable development in times of urbanization" in the peer-reviewed journal "Socialni Studia - Social Studies".

Contested Urban Green Spaces and the Question of Environmental Justice. Examples from Northern Europe.- A nearby Park or Forest can become Mount Everest Access to Urban Green Areas by People in Wheelchair from an Environmental Justice Perspective. A Stockholm case .- Not my Green Space? White Attitudes towards Black Presence in UK Green Spaces. An auto-ethnography.- Environmental Justice in the Post-Socialist City. The case of Riga, Latvia.- Private Events in a Public Park: Contested Music Festivals and Environmental Justice in Finsbury Park, London.