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Social Justice in the Green City

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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)

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.

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  • Roberta Cucca & Thomas Thaler, 2023. "Social Justice in the Green City," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 279-282.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:urbpla:v8:y:2023:i:1:p:279-282
    DOI: 10.17645/up.v8i1.6850
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    1. Maria Karagianni, 2023. "Making Thessaloniki Resilient? The Enclosing Process of the Urban Green Commons," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 346-360.
    2. Alena Birnbaum & Petra Lütke, 2023. "Food and Governmentality in the Green City: The Case of German Food Policy Councils," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 388-398.
    3. Willi Bauer, 2023. "Reframing Urban Nature-Based Solutions Through Perspectives of Environmental Justice and Privilege," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 334-345.
    4. Klaus Geiselhart & David Spenger, 2023. "Environmental Microsegregation: Urban Renewal and the Political Ecology of Health," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 296-311.
    5. Roberta Cucca & Michael Friesenecker & Thomas Thaler, 2023. "Green Gentrification, Social Justice, and Climate Change in the Literature: Conceptual Origins and Future Directions," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 283-295.
    6. Alena Birnbaum & Petra Lütke, 2023. "Food and Governmentality in the Green City: The Case of German Food Policy Councils," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 388-398.
    7. Dani Broitman, 2023. "“Passive” Ecological Gentrification Triggered by the Covid-19 Pandemic," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 312-321.
    8. Byeongsun Ahn & Michael Friesenecker & Yuri Kazepov & Jana Brandl, 2023. "How Context Matters: Challenges of Localizing Participatory Budgeting for Climate Change Adaptation in Vienna," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 399-413.
    9. Dani Broitman, 2023. "“Passive” Ecological Gentrification Triggered by the Covid-19 Pandemic," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 312-321.
    10. Klaus Geiselhart & David Spenger, 2023. "Environmental Microsegregation: Urban Renewal and the Political Ecology of Health," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 296-311.
    11. Willi Bauer, 2023. "Reframing Urban Nature-Based Solutions Through Perspectives of Environmental Justice and Privilege," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 334-345.
    12. Byeongsun Ahn & Michael Friesenecker & Yuri Kazepov & Jana Brandl, 2023. "How Context Matters: Challenges of Localizing Participatory Budgeting for Climate Change Adaptation in Vienna," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 399-413.
    13. Maria Karagianni, 2023. "Making Thessaloniki Resilient? The Enclosing Process of the Urban Green Commons," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 346-360.
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