Environment Agency & Brook Lyndhurst
Finding the 50 worst places to live
Geofutures was commissioned by the Environment Agency and Brook Lyndhurst to create an online weighted overlay model to determine the location of the 50 worst places to live in England and Wales.
The model processes a wide range of social, economic, and environmental factors, including ambient air pollution, flood risk, housing in poor condition, street cleanliness, and the index of multiple deprivation. Each factor can be viewed individually as a theme or layer of data on the map, giving an immediate and compelling overview of environmental quality.
Individual factors are combined and weighted depending on their relative importance to the user, and used to determine the location of the 50 worst districts to live in England and Wales. Different combinations and weights will yield different results.
The results can be downloaded as a text file for incorporation into other analyses, or immediately viewed as a theme or layer on the map, making clusters and regional contrasts evident.
Geofutures’ work with The Environment Agency continued with a research think-piece designing a methodology for a single metric of environmental inequity.
