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Revision as of 15:55, 13 June 2016
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This article focuses on information specific to United Kingdom. Please see our Environment quality page for a topic overview.
Environmental inequality in the United Kingdom
UK environmental inequalities refers to the way in which the quality of the environment differs between different communities in the UK.
Examples of environmental inequalities in the UK include: Access to parks, green spaces and the natural environment; Exposure to flood risk; Air pollution; Exposure to harmful chemicals; Transport-related problems and Proximity to waste and landfill sites.
Responses to UK environmental inequalities have included NGO's, academia and government. W
Campaigns
Pesticide-free towns and cities, pan-uk.org
Resources
Apps for sustainability
Citizens data initiative
UK AIR, air quality information resource, Defra
Maps
NightBlight, CPRE
UK Ambient Air Quality Interactive Map, Defra UK, government site
What's in Your Backyard? Local and national environmental data from the Environment Agency
Networks
- Network for Clean Air
- Pesticide Action Network UK
- Zilch.org.uk, national network of individuals in the UK working to eliminate littering.
See also
- Environment quality
- local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages
- Biodiversity UK
- Climate action UK
- Open spaces UK
- Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle UK
- Rural sustainability UK
- Trees, woodland and forest UK
- Urban sustainability UK
Interwiki links
Wikipedia: Environmental inequality in the United Kingdom
External links
Information from gov.uk
- Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
- Environment
- Environment Agency, public body responsible for protecting and improving the environment in England and Wales. W
- Floods destroy. Be prepared.
- Local environmental quality
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