Social Justice in the Green City

Roberta Cucca and Thomas Thaler
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Roberta Cucca: Department of Urban and Regional Planning (BYREG), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Thomas Thaler: Institute of Mountain Risk Engineering (IAN), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria

Urban Planning, 2023, vol. 8, issue 1, 279-282

Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic and energy, climate, and demographic crises have shown how cities are vulnerable to these impacts and how the access to green and blue spaces has become highly relevant to people. One strategy that we can observe is the strong focus on the resilience discourse, meaning implementing more green and blue spaces in urban areas, such as at previous brownfield quarters. However, social justice implications of urban greening have been overlooked for a long time. The implementation of strategies to improve the quality and availability of the green and blue infrastructures may indeed have negative outcomes as far as housing accessibility is concerned by trigging gentrification processes. Issues related to environmental justice and socio-spatial justice are increasing in contemporary cities and call for a better understanding of the global and local mechanisms of production and reproduction of environmental and spatial inequalities. This thematic issue includes eleven articles with different methodologies, with examples from Europe and North America as well as different lenses of green gentrification. Some articles focus more on the question of costs, benefits, and distributional consequences of various infrastructural options for urban greening. Others, instead, discuss how the strategic urban planning tools and policy processes take into account distributional consequences, with specific attention on participatory processes.

Keywords: climate gentrification; environmental justice; green gentrification; urban justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.17645/up.v8i1.6850

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