Why green “climate gentrification” threatens poor and vulnerable populations

Anguelovski, Isabelle; Connolly, James J. T.; Pearsall, Hamil; Shokry, Galia; Checker, Melissa; Maantay, Juliana; Gould, Kenneth A.; Lewis, Tammy L.; Maroko, Andrew; Roberts, J. Timmons

doi:10.1073/pnas.1920490117

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“…Particularly within the framework of urban greening or urban redevelopment (also called "urban revitalization" or "urban renewal"), GSI implementers must consider how GSI practices affect communities, especially residents that may have been excluded from the benefits of past investments in GSI or be skeptical of interventions that are not perceived as "of" or "for" their communities [110,243]. More research is needed to understand who stands to benefit from GSI, especially when it is embedded in larger developments [33,34]. Integrating a socioeconomic lens from the beginning of GSI project assessment can also help address the often-disconnected nature of overlapping and conflicting goals and strategies of various groups-too often prioritized on the basis of economics alone [37]-within a single planning effort.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While sustainable development has incorporated both the language of GSI and social equity in its rise to prominence, the two have yet to be adequately considered in tandem [33,34]. Doing so requires an analysis of both the procedural (who participates in decision making) and distributional (who benefits, and how) aspects of environmental justice.…”

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confidence: 99%

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It Is Not Easy Being Green: Recognizing Unintended Consequences of Green Stormwater Infrastructure

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Weiss

Gulliver

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Water

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Green infrastructure designed to address urban drainage and water quality issues is often deployed without full knowledge of potential unintended social, ecological, and human health consequences. Though understood in their respective fields of study, these diverse impacts are seldom discussed together in a format understood by a broader audience. This paper takes a first step in addressing that gap by exploring tradeoffs associated with green infrastructure practices that manage urban stormwater including urban trees, stormwater ponds, filtration, infiltration, rain gardens, and green roofs. Each green infrastructure practice type performs best under specific conditions and when targeting specific goals, but regular inspections, maintenance, and monitoring are necessary for any green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) practice to succeed. We review how each of the above practices is intended to function and how they could malfunction in order to improve how green stormwater infrastructure is designed, constructed, monitored, and maintained. Our proposed decision-making framework, using both biophysical (biological and physical) science and social science, could lead to GSI projects that are effective, cost efficient, and just.

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Section: Prioritize Goalsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

It Is Not Easy Being Green: Recognizing Unintended Consequences of Green Stormwater Infrastructure

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Weiss

Gulliver

et al. 2020

Water

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“…Fourth, historically disadvantaged populations are often unable to take advantage of inherent opportunities in sustainability transformations [54,55]. In the United States, for example, this manifests in several ways.…”

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Salience, Credibility and Legitimacy in a Rapidly Shifting World of Knowledge and Action

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Belloy

2020

Sustainability

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We are in a rapidly changing world where new dynamics are stressing the knowledge-action landscape: a greater understanding that cross-scale interactions are critical; increasing pressure to more fully address issues of equity in sustainable development challenges; rapidly transforming digital technologies; and the emergence of a “post-truth world”. These stressors are ripening at a time in which there is increased urgency in linking knowledge to action to solve some of the earth’s most pressing human-environment problems. This paper explores to what degree one model of knowledge-action may be useful in the face of these stressors. This model relies on co-production of knowledge across boundaries, and the importance of knowledge in meeting criteria of salience, credibility and legitimacy. Tentative explorations suggest utility of this model in responding to the changing knowledge-action landscape.

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“…38 Special attention must be given to avoid gentrification, a potential negative consequence of neighborhood investment. 39,40 Health systems should include community input at the start of planning through implementation to determine the location and design features of new green space. Neighborhoods with poor health metrics and low socioeconomic indicators based on administrative data should be targeted first.…”

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Nature as a Community Health Tool: The Case for Healthcare Providers and Systems

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Kondo

Razani

2020

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

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Why green “climate gentrification” threatens poor and vulnerable populations

Cited by 164 publications

References 21 publications

It Is Not Easy Being Green: Recognizing Unintended Consequences of Green Stormwater Infrastructure

It Is Not Easy Being Green: Recognizing Unintended Consequences of Green Stormwater Infrastructure

Salience, Credibility and Legitimacy in a Rapidly Shifting World of Knowledge and Action

Nature as a Community Health Tool: The Case for Healthcare Providers and Systems

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