Green spaces and urbanization
Presentation Type
Abstract
Faculty Advisor
Thomas Loikith
Access Type
Event
Start Date
25-4-2025 9:00 AM
End Date
25-4-2025 9:59 AM
Description
Unregulated urbanization negatively impacts the environment. It causes loss of habitat, loss of open and green spaces, air and water pollution, and increased waste. It has also been demonstrated to negatively impact the physical and mental health of communities. State and local governments have been at the forefront in initiating and funding smart growth programs to slow urbanization and its negative effects. This has resulted in a patchwork of non-uniform local solutions to what is a national problem. What can and should be done to improve the governmental response to urbanization and limit its negative impacts on urban communities? This is a complex problem that requires interdisciplinary research and analysis in order to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of the problem. Using qualitative research methodology (textual analysis), relevant sources from the disciplines of law and psychology were incorporated. The study of common ground between conflicting disciplinary insights and integration allowed for a more comprehensive understanding of the problem. This led to suggested resolutions of the problem. This research will be presented with a poster to review the research that was completed and prove that urbanization and its effects is a national issue. The federal government should enact a program to improve funding for smart growth programs and to better coordinate efforts among the federal, state, and local governments to control urban sprawl. Further, governments at all levels need to incorporate in its decision-making process the demonstrated impacts of inadequately regulated urbanization on the physical and mental health of urban communities.
Green spaces and urbanization
Unregulated urbanization negatively impacts the environment. It causes loss of habitat, loss of open and green spaces, air and water pollution, and increased waste. It has also been demonstrated to negatively impact the physical and mental health of communities. State and local governments have been at the forefront in initiating and funding smart growth programs to slow urbanization and its negative effects. This has resulted in a patchwork of non-uniform local solutions to what is a national problem. What can and should be done to improve the governmental response to urbanization and limit its negative impacts on urban communities? This is a complex problem that requires interdisciplinary research and analysis in order to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of the problem. Using qualitative research methodology (textual analysis), relevant sources from the disciplines of law and psychology were incorporated. The study of common ground between conflicting disciplinary insights and integration allowed for a more comprehensive understanding of the problem. This led to suggested resolutions of the problem. This research will be presented with a poster to review the research that was completed and prove that urbanization and its effects is a national issue. The federal government should enact a program to improve funding for smart growth programs and to better coordinate efforts among the federal, state, and local governments to control urban sprawl. Further, governments at all levels need to incorporate in its decision-making process the demonstrated impacts of inadequately regulated urbanization on the physical and mental health of urban communities.
Comments
Poster presentation at the 2025 Student Research Symposium.