Environmental Systems and Societies
Applications of Environmental Policies to Ensure the Establishment and Conservation of Los Angeles Parks and Green Spaces
Abstract
Los Angeles is known to be one of the fastest-growing centers of innovation and economic productivity in the world, often characterized by intermittent gentrification, construction, and development, which leaves little consideration for parkland and open green spaces. In this essay, the extent to which the city of Los Angeles has been effective in forming and utilizing the Sustainability City pLAn to establish and sustain parks and green spaces within the city is assessed. The scope of the investigation takes into account progress made by local nonprofit organizations, university involvement, and municipal legislative action. Specifically, the Los Angeles Sustainability City pLAn can be attributed to efforts made by the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust, TreePeople, the University of California Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation, and the Los Angeles local executive branch. The plan's progress and formation are to be analyzed in the context of park conservation and overall sustainability based upon data and accomplishments through community, university, and legislative initiatives. Overall, it can be concluded that the Los Angeles municipal government has achieved the expansion of park networks through the use of resources provided to them and collaborations with community leaders in improving Los Angeles's green spaces. These accomplishments have been propagated through the drafting and refinement of the Sustainability City pLAn as its goals are put into action. Altogether, this plan has wholly increased urban ecological benefits for wildlife, habitats, ecosystems, and biodiversity within the city of Los Angeles and has the potential to provide a framework for sustainable land use in metropolitan capitals around the world.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2021 Intersect: The Stanford Journal of Science, Technology, and Society
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).