Why green "climate gentrification" threatens poor and vulnerable populations

Cities in the Global North are increasingly adoptinggreen interventions meant to enhance their climateresilience capacity. Plans include Philadelphia, PA'sGrowing Stronger, Boston, MA's Resilient Boston Har-bor (Fig. 1), Malmö, Sweden's Green and Blue Infrastruc-ture Plan, and Barcelo...

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Authors: Anguelovski, Isabelle|||0000-0002-6409-5155, Connolly, James J. T.|||0000-0002-7363-8414, Pearsall, Hamil|||0000-0003-2287-7586, Shokry, Galia|||0000-0002-2959-3677, Checker, Melissa, Maantay, Juliana|||0000-0002-2449-0345, Gould, Kenneth, Lewis, Tammy, Maroko, Andrew|||0000-0002-9398-2386, Roberts, J. Timmons|||0000-0002-8726-5698
Format: article
Publication Date:2019
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:301812
Online Access:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/301812
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1073/pnas.1920490117
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Climate gentrification
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Summary:Cities in the Global North are increasingly adoptinggreen interventions meant to enhance their climateresilience capacity. Plans include Philadelphia, PA'sGrowing Stronger, Boston, MA's Resilient Boston Har-bor (Fig. 1), Malmö, Sweden's Green and Blue Infrastruc-ture Plan, and Barcelona, Spain's Green Infrastructureand Biodiversity Plan. Such plans and interventions markthe emergence of a new type of climate planning: greenclimate resilience.

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