A5029422211- Urban Green Space and Health
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Noise Effects and Management
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Housing Market and Economics
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Rural development and sustainability
- Regional resilience and development
- Social Sciences and Governance
- Education, sociology, and vocational training
- Social Issues and Policies
Kean University
2022-2024
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2017-2024
Barcelona Media
2021-2024
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
2024
University of British Columbia
2024
Roskilde University
2024
Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont
2024
Hospital del Mar Research Institute
2019-2021
Hospital Del Mar
2017-2021
Municipal Institute for Medical Research
2021
Supported by a large body of scholarship, it is increasingly orthodox practice for cities to deploy urban greening interventions address diverse socioenvironmental challenges, from protecting ecosystems enhancing built environments and climate resilience or improving health outcomes. In this article, we expand the theoretical boundaries used challenge growing orthodoxy laying out nuanced framework that advances critical environmental justice scholarship. Beginning now well-supported...
Cities in the Global North are increasingly adopting green interventions meant to enhance their climate resilience capacity. Plans include Philadelphia, PA’s Growing Stronger, Boston, MA’s Resilient Boston Harbor (Fig. 1), Malmo, Sweden’s Green and Blue Infrastructure Plan, Barcelona, Spain’s Biodiversity Plan. Such plans mark emergence of a new type planning: resilience. Fig. 1. If not done right, infrastructure, such as that shown here East is potentially source injustice. In...
Abstract Although urban greening is universally recognized as an essential part of sustainable and climate-responsive cities, a growing literature on green gentrification argues that new infrastructure, greenspace in particular, can contribute to gentrification, thus creating social racial inequalities access the benefits further environmental climate injustice. In response limited quantitative evidence documenting temporal relationship between greenspaces across entire let alone various...
Increasingly, greening in cities across the Global North is enmeshed strategies for attracting capital investment, raising question: whom future green city? Through exploring relationship between cities’ boosterist rhetoric, affordability and social equity considerations within programmes, this paper examines extent to which, why, degree of branding – that is, urban boosterism predicts variation city affordability. We present results a mixed methods, macroscale analysis trajectories 99...
Planetary urbanization exacerbates the spread of infectious disease and emergence pandemics. As COVID-19 cases continue to swell in cities around world, pandemic has visibilized urban health inequities. In Global North, emerging trends show that lower income residents are often at greater risk for infection death due COVID-19, part inequitable living, working environmental conditions. We explore underlying causes potential long-term implications inequities exemplified by outbreaks context...
In the movement towards building greener and more sustainable cities, real estate developers are increasingly embracing not only green construction but broader strategies action related to urban greening. To date, their motivations role in this greening dynamic remains underexplored, yet essential dissect how is sustained development legitimized revitalizing neighborhoods. With an eye better understand capitalist processes underway amidst financialized nature growth, equity impacts they...
Abstract Although cities globally are increasingly mobilizing re-naturing projects to address diverse urban socio-environmental and health challenges, there is mounting evidence that these interventions may also be linked the phenomenon known as green gentrification. However, date empirical on relationship between greenspaces gentrification regarding associations with different greenspace types remains scarce. This study focused 28 mid-sized in North America Western Europe. We assessed...
As cities strive to protect vulnerable residents from climate risks and impacts, recent studies have identified a challenging link between these measures gentrification processes that reconfigure, but do not necessarily eliminate, insecurities. Green resilient infrastructure (GRI) may especially increase the vulnerability of lower income communities color gentrification, an issue remains underexplored. Drawing on forerunner green city Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as our case study, this...
Municipal governments are increasingly promoting green climate-adaptive infrastructure projects to address climate threats and impacts while maximizing multiple socio-environmental benefits. Although these strategies repeatedly advanced as "win-win" solutions for all, recent literature has drawn attention numerous negative effects, especially the displacement exclusion of vulnerable social groups, pointing at yet another layer injustice. In this article, we focus our analysis on experienced...
Municipal climate resiliency and re-naturing plans are promoting greening green (re)development, such as the inclusion of new parks, greenways, or rehabilitated shorelines, frequently a-political, win-win solutions for all residents. Greenwashing (re)development amenities in vulnerable neighborhoods-those often most need support toward resilience adaptation-expose residents to impacts gentrification, pricing-out physical displacement from housing, socio-cultural public space, associated...
In global cities, the impacts of gentrification on lives and well-being socially vulnerable residents have occupied political agendas. Yet to date, research how affects a multiplicity health outcomes has remained scarce. While much nascent quantitative helps identify associations between determined outcomes, it tends draw from static datasets collected for other studies posteriori non-longitudinal conclusions. There is little attention in traditional public purposely understand complex,...
Through climate adaptation planning cities are transforming places and relations, most recently via green resilient infrastructure (GRI). Yet, GRI's incorporation into existing, racialized systems of urban development, regeneration finance has raised questions about the socio-cultural impacts justice dimensions recent directions in urbanism. While critical scholars highlight exclusion historically marginalized residents, this paper's analysis GRI-driven for sense belonging reveals a complex...
Abstract This article explores the role that green gentrification plays in exacerbating racial tensions within historically marginalized urban communities benefiting from new environmental amenities such as parks, gardens, waterfront restoration and greenways. Building on extensive qualitative data three cities Europe (Amsterdam, Vienna, Lyon) four United States (Washington, Austin, Atlanta, Cleveland), we use thematic analysis grounded theory to examine complex relationship between...
Theories of epidemiologic transition analyze the shift in causes mortality due to changes risk factors over time, and through processes urbanization development by comparing between countries or time. These theories do not account for health inequities such as those resulting from environmental injustice, which minority lower income residents are more likely be exposed hazards have less access goods. Neighborhoods with histories injustice also at gentrification they undergo improvements new...
Abstract To effectively navigate out of the climate crisis, a new interdisciplinary approach is needed to guide and facilitate research that integrates diverse understandings how transitions evolve in intertwined social–environmental systems. The concept tipping points, frequently used natural sciences increasingly social sciences, can help elucidate processes underlying major transitions. We develop notion interlinked ‘social–climatic points’ which desirability intentionality are key...
Strategies such as the Healthy Cities project aim to place health at centre of urban interventions.1WHOHealthy Cities.http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/environment-and-health/urban-health/activities/healthy-citiesDate: 2017Google Scholar Such programmes seek create cities with adequate housing and public transportation, quality care, safe places exercise play. However, these common transversal approaches also carry a risk perverse effects, especially when effect market-oriented...
As assessing urban ecosystem services and disservices is of rapidly growing interest in a context increasingly urbanized environments, greater scholarly attention needs to be placed on how different informants perceive these disservices. Previous research geography planning has already pointed at the challenges building inclusive natural outdoor environments such as green blue spaces gentrifying neighborhoods, particularly those undergoing gentrification. In response, we analyze identified...
With the branding of a city as green increasingly serving to amplify attractiveness andinvestment while also contributing patterns gentrification, incentive link real estate development and space is growing. Yet, little known about extent which this has generated spatial relationship between newly constructed housing at city-wide level in ways that can be compared cities. This gap knowledge makes it difficult precisely indicate implications for rights, affordability, broader goals urban...