We ask how environmental justice and urban ecology have influenced one another over the past 25 years in the context of the US Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program and Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) project. BES began after environmental justice emerged through activism and scholarship in the 1980s but spans a period of increasing awareness among ecologists and environmental practitioners. The work in Baltimore provides a detailed example of how ecological research has been affected by a growing understanding of environmental justice. The shift shows how unjust environmental outcomes emerge and are reinforced over time by systemic discrimination and exclusion. We do not comprehensively review the literature on environmental justice in urban ecology but do present four brief cases from the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia, to illustrate the global relevance of the topic. The example cases demonstrate the necessity for continuous engagement with communities in addressing environmental problem solving.

我们询问过去 25 年在美国长期生态研究 (LTER) 计划和巴尔的摩生态系统研究 (BES) 项目的背景下环境正义和城市生态如何相互影响。 BES 始于 20 世纪 80 年代环境正义通过行动主义和学术兴起之后，但跨越了生态学家和环境从业者意识不断增强的时期。巴尔的摩的工作提供了一个详细的例子，说明生态研究如何受到对环境正义日益加深的理解的影响。这一转变表明，不公正的环境结果是如何出现的，并且随着时间的推移，系统性的歧视和排斥会加剧这种结果。我们没有全面回顾城市生态学中环境正义的文献，但确实提出了来自加勒比、非洲和亚洲的四个简短案例，以说明该主题的全球相关性。这些示例表明了社区持续参与解决环境问题的必要性。