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- Pineda-Pinto, Melissa, et al.
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Examining ecological justice within the social-ecological-technological system of New York City, USA
- 2021
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Ingår i: Landscape and Urban Planning. - : Elsevier BV. - 0169-2046 .- 1872-6062. ; 215
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Examining justice in cities requires using analytical approaches that can unpack their complex nature and reveal the many interacting dimensions that affect justice patterns and processes. Although justice in cities has been examined extensively, it has primarily focused on social and environmental dimensions. However, justice is multi-dimensional, influenced and affected by multiple actors, dynamics, and processes. In this paper we propose the use of ecological justice, as justice of, to, and for nature as a critical lens for portraying a more integral understanding of urban injustices. This lens extends the notion of justice to nature through four dimensions: distribution of harmful impacts, recognition of nature, participation of nature, and the capabilities of social-ecological systems. Through a relational lens we develop a methodology that uses the social-ecological-technological system (SETS) conceptual framework to unpack how the dimensions and interactions affect ecological justice across urban landscapes. This methodology is operationalized into measurable variables and applied through a case study in New York City. A spatial analysis of indicators that act as SETS-Justice proxies at a Community District level, reveal high spatial variability of ecological justice hotspots when looking at each dimension independently. Identifying ecological justice hotspots can provide critical information for improving ecological justice through multiple means. For example, hotspots lacking in social-ecological recognition and participation of nature can inform context-specific solutions such as policies and projects that target community engagement, capacity building, and improve ecological knowledge. Additionally, a composite analysis of SETS-Justice through the aggregation of all indicators, reveals justice hotspots different to those commonly mapped in other justice-focused studies. This approach highlights the need to jointly address issues of environmental and ecological justice.
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- Pineda-Pinto, Melissa, et al.
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Planning Ecologically Just Cities : A Framework to Assess Ecological Injustice Hotspots for Targeted Urban Design and Planning of Nature-Based Solutions
- 2022
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Ingår i: Urban Policy and Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0811-1146 .- 1476-7244. ; 40:3, s. 206-222
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a typology of ecological injustice hotspots for targeted design of nature-based solutions to guide planning and designing of just cities. The typology demonstrates how the needs and capabilities of nonhuman nature can be embedded within transitions to multi- and interspecies relational futures that regenerate and protect urban social-ecological systems. We synthesise the findings of previous quantitative and qualitative analyses to develop the Ecologically Just Cities Framework that (1) works as a diagnostic tool to characterise four types of urban ecological injustices and (2) identifies nature-based planning actions that can best respond to different types of place-based ecological injustices.
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- Shabb, Katherine, et al.
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Climate City Contracts? Governing towards Climate Neutral Cities
- 2023
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Ingår i: A Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and Communities. - 9781800372023 - 9781800372030
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Climate City Contracts or CCCs are being developed in the context of a larger mission, with many stakeholders, funding, and growing momentum, hopefully providing a new force, legitimacy, and inspiration to ongoing urban climate actions. CCCs differ from current strategies for tackling climate change in cities because they are being developed in the context of the mission approach to tackle some of the most pressing challenges facing humanity. CCCs are a mechanism to ensure that city-level work is not occurring in a vacuum but rather facilitates multi-level integration between cities, national agencies, and the European Union, but also collaboration across a diversity of stakeholders. The current focus of CCCs is mostly on process rather than outcomes. Ambitious Climate Investment Plans, which encompass private sector efforts, are necessary to underpin the goals and activities outlined in CCCs.
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- Voytenko Palgan, Yuliya, et al.
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Share and Repair in Cities: Agenda for Research and Practice on Circular Urban Resilience
- 2023
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Ingår i: Research Agenda on Sustainable Cities and Communities. - 9781800372023 - 9781800372030 ; , s. 81-102
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Share and repair organizations (SROs) have important implications for resource efficiency and socio-economic sustainability in cities, but their potential to contribute to long-term urban resilience has yet to be systematically investigated. Knowledge is scarce about how these nascent circular initiatives can provide building blocks for socio-economic recovery in the wake of recent crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the humanitarian crisis induced by the war in Ukraine, as well as what opportunities they may offer for delivering long-term resilience in cities. These crises bring societal urgency to such research.The aim of this chapter is to build a forward-looking agenda for interdisciplinary research and practice on circular urban resilience. We call for developing knowledge and theory on circular urban resilience, which would advance the understanding and explore relationships between the circular and sharing economy and urban resilience, thereby helping transform our cities towards resilience. This work is underpinned by four avenues for research and practice. There is a need for empirical evidence on the short-term responses of SROs to high-impact low-probability crises in different cities (Avenue 1) and on how municipalities around the world have engaged with SROs when responding to such crises (Avenue 3). This empirical account would help unpack the potential of SROs to support long-term resilience in cities (Avenue 2) and advance resilient urban systems by identifying pathways for municipalities to unlock the potential of SROs for long-term urban resilience (Avenue 4).Future research on circular urban resilience should not only trigger a fundamental shift in the conceptualization of share and repair strategies in light of urban resilience but also provide new ways for building resilient, just, and sustainable cities. Key messages to urban actors advancing sustainable cities and communities are to: 1) set urban resilience as a strategic goal; and 2) operationalize resilience and, when relevant, connect urban resilience and circular economy agendas."These changes mainly involve adding some commas for clarity and adjusting sentence structures.
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