Environmental Equity Laboratory (LAEQ)

The work of this laboratory at the Urbanisation Culture Société Research Centre is part of a research trend in environmental justice that focuses on situations of overexposure to pollution (air and noise) or reduced accessibility to positive elements of the urban environment (vegetation, parks and urban resources) by specific groups of the population (defined, for example, by income, age or ethnicity). More generally, the laboratory research program contributes to broader debates about socio-spatial justice in geography and urban studies. It aims to enrich discussions on the definition of the equitable city across the notions of distributional justice, recognitional justice and procedural justice.