**9. Conclusion**

172 Social Sciences and Cultural Studies – Issues of Language, Public Opinion, Education and Welfare

"This is a human rights issue and fundamentally an issue of equal justice" (García and

Drawing on the lessons learned in the victories at Los Angeles State Historic Park and Río de Los Angeles State Park, the community alliances working to create Baldwin Hills Park have relied on analyses of the racial and ethnic composition of the area, the number of parks per thousand residents, the related health consequences of a lack of places to play, including increased rates of obesity and diabetes, GIS maps and demographic analyses, the history of

In July 2011, various parties settled legal challenges to the environmental impact report (EIR) and oil field zoning regulations, also called a community standards district (CSD) to strengthen health and safety protections for residents of and visitors to the Baldwin Hills area that are affected by drilling operations by the Plains Exploration and Production Company (PXP). The petitioners in four lawsuits claimed that the County violated the California Environmental Quality Act by failing to conduct an adequate EIR before adopting the Baldwin Hills CSD, which was intended to regulate 1,100 acres of oil drilling and production activities in Baldwin Hills adjoining park lands. The settlement provides additional protections for people, parks and the environment in the Baldwin Hills, in one of the most diverse areas of Los Angeles and the historic heart of African-American L.A. Key

The County agreed to comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and corresponding regulations, and California Government Code Section 11135 and

According to the County, the Baldwin Hills oil field is now the most heavily regulated oil field in the nation. The settlement agreement is a best practice example for other

Green spaces, including parks, school fields, rivers, beaches, forests, mountains, and trails, are a necessary part of the infrastructure for healthy, livable, and just communities. The following recommendations for equitable development are based on the lessons learned from the urban greening movement over the past ten years to help ensure that everyone, especially children and youth of color and low-income communities, benefit equally from

1. Prioritize green space projects based on need in communities that are both park poor and income poor. The California legislative criteria for investing park funds in park poor and income poor communities is a best practice example for defining standards to

measure progress and equity, and holding public officials accountable.

discrimination, and the values at stake (García et al., 2010).

Mandatory, recurring health and Environmental Justice assessments.

corresponding regulations, among other requirements.

elements of the settlement include: Reduced drilling of new wells; Increased air quality monitoring; More stringent noise limits; and

Environmental Justice matters.

**8. Lessons learned** 

infrastructure investments.

Strongin, 2011).

The urban park experience in Los Angeles demonstrates that social science research combined with legal analyses can be translated into systemic social change to build healthy, livable communities for all. Diverse coalitions have used multidisciplinary research, analyses, and technologies including GIS mapping and demographic analyses to provide evidence of the need for parks in Los Angeles. This evidence has, in turn, been used to support legal actions to implement change by creating new parks in park poor and income poor communities of color. In many cases, the legal tools and actions do not involve litigation.

The lessons presented in this chapter are broadly applicable. Though the type of change sought, the particular circumstances of the situation, and the applicable laws will vary from case to case and location to location, the cases of Los Angeles State Historic Park, Río de Los Angeles State Park, and Baldwin Hills Park are all best practice examples of how to affect positive change on communities.

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**9** 

*China* 

**Environmental Effect of Major Project:** 

**Object-Oriented Information Extraction** 

*College of Resources Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University* 

*Key Lab of 3D Information Acquisition and Application, Ministry of Education,* 

With the increase of human activities, ecological security has become a hot topic across the globe. Now the status of ecological security has been influenced by the disturbance of human activities. Since 1990s, there has been many major projects built in China, such as Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the West-East gas transmission, South-North water transfer and the Three Gorges Dam in China. These projects can bring benefits in regional economic development, and affect ecological environment and ecological security. These effects can also influence operation of project security. One of the important issues is to find a balance

The focus of this article is ecological environment of major project in Beijing. It is dynamically monitored through the change of main project and ancillary project. A method is put forward to integrate multi-source data and information to collaborative analyse. It ensures the continuity of monitoring. During dynamic monitoring of construction, an advanced object-oriented information extraction of remote sensing technology combined with manual visual interpretation to achieve the extraction of target. This method can establish training data set and interpret knowledge database according to the type, spectrum, geometric and texture characteristic of different project type. Meanwhile, the sevaluation indicator system of different periods according to environmental impact assessment requirements needs to be established. Finally, we use the change detection

between the two points for the smooth running of various major projects.

technique to achieve the monitoring and evaluation of process-oriented of project.

It mainly includes 3 steps in the object-oriented recognition of major projects by remote sensing images: remote sensing information modeling in high-resolution image, object-

**1. Introduction** 

**2. Theory and implementation** 

**2.1 Research framework** 

**and Schedule-Oriented Monitoring** 

Zhuowei Hu, Hongqi Liu and Lai Wei

*Key Lab of Resources Environment and GIS, Beijing* 

*Key Laboratory of Integrated Disaster Assessment and Risk Governance of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Beijing,* 

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