The politics of green transformations. (2015). In Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

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Ahern, J. (2011). From fail-safe to safe-to-fail: Sustainability and resilience in the new urban world. Landscape and Urban Planning, 100(4): 341–343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.02.021

Urban resilience is largely undefined; however, design methodologies surrounding resilience are evolving from fail-safe to safe-to-fail. Five design principles for enhancing urban resilience capacity are proposed: multifunctionality, diversity, multi-scale networks and connectivity, and adaptive planning and design. Moving forward, urban resilience must be analyzed through an interdisciplinary lens. 

Keywords: SETS; Sustainability & Resilience; Planning & Design

 

Ahern, J. (2013). Urban landscape sustainability and resilience: The promise and challenges of integrating ecology with urban planning and design. Landscape Ecology, 28(6): 1203–1212. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-012-9799-z

Landscape ecology has helped shape urban ecology; however, landscape ecologists are not often integrated in the design process. Five strategies are proposed to increase collaboration, and resilience, in urban design; these include biodiversity, urban ecological networks and connectivity, multifunctionality, redundancy and modularization, adaptive design. 

Keywords: Sustainability & Resilience; Planning & Design

 

Al-Kodmany, K. (2001). BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN TECHNICAL AND LOCAL KNOWLEDGE: TOOLS FOR PROMOTING COMMUNITY-BASED PLANNING AND DESIGN. Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, 18(2), 110–130.

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Allison, Josie R. “Greening Inequality: How Urban Sustainable Development Fails Under Neoliberalism.” Honors, Portland State University, 2020. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2157&context=honorstheses.

‘Sustainability’ has been co-opted by capitalism, and particularly the neoliberal economics that arose in the 1970s, into a clever type of branding known as ‘greenwashing’ as companies and municipalities alike are forced to compete against one another for privately-held funds. The result is a transfer of wealth and power to private companies that operate with the objective of generating profits rather than meeting social needs. Portland is used as a case study of a city that has embraced a ‘sustainable’ brand, yet its environmental amenities are not equitably distributed across economic and social spectra.

Keywords: Social Justice; Governance

 

Alves, A., Gersonius, B., Sanchez, A., Vojinovic, Z., & Kapelan, Z. (2018). Multi-criteria Approach for Selection of Green and Grey Infrastructure to Reduce Flood Risk and Increase CO-benefits. Water Resources Management, 32(7), 2505–2522. https://doi.org/10/gdgn38

Selection criteria for stormwater infrastructure have evolved from primarily economic efficiency to incorporating elements of social and ecological sustainability. The new method proposed in this paper adapts the decision-making process to local conditions and preferences with user-defined weighting factors. This method differs from most prior selection guides and tools by including grey, green, and mixed infrastructure types. It also considers different types of floods beyond exclusively pluvial floods. The paper also describes how the decision-making process has been applied to three case studies, in Spain and Thailand.

Keywords: Planning & Design

 

Andráško, I. (2021). Why People (Do Not) Adopt the Private Precautionary and Mitigation Measures: A Review of the Issue from the Perspective of Recent Flood Risk Research. Water, 13(2): 140. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13020140.

The author completed a semi-structured literature review to identify major, emergent themes in flood risk management, including responsibility, risk perception, people and social environment, geography of risk, emotions, and theories and conceptual models, as they primarily relate to the adoption (or lack thereof) of preventative and reactive stormwater controls by private agents. 

Keywords: Governance

 

Angermeier, Paul L., Leigh Anne Krometis, Marc J. Stern, and Tyler L. Hemby. “Exploring Relationships among Stream Health, Human Well-Being, and Demographics in Virginia, USA.” Ecological Indicators 121 (February 1, 2021): 107194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107194.

This statistical analysis of public data for Virginia (USA) found a strong correlation between stream health, measured as Virginia Stream Condition Index (VSCI), and the percentage of white-identifying residents in the surrounding county. Additional correlations were found between stream health indicators and social indicators such as mortality and rates of violent crime.

Keywords: Social Justice; Human Health

 

Angheloiu, C., & Tennant, M. (2020). Urban futures: Systemic or system changing interventions? A literature review using Meadows’ leverage points as analytical framework. Cities, 104, 102808. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102808

Literature review of the current concepts widely used in the context of urban redevelopment: urban resilience, transition, transformation, and sustainability. Using Meadows Leverage Points, authors identified the most commonly discussed interventions.

Keywords: SETS; Governance; Sustainability & Resilience

 

Anguelovski, I. (2016). Healthy Food Stores, Greenlining and Food Gentrification: Contesting New Forms of Privilege, Displacement and Locally Unwanted Land Uses in Racially Mixed Neighborhoods. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 39(6), 1209–1230. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12299

The process of environmental gentrification through ‘supermarket greenlining’ is discussed on the case study of Whole Foods supermarket in the Latinx neighbourhood in Boston, MA. Healthy food stores coming in place of culture specific food options become both an act and the outcome of gentrification resulting in exclusion and displacement of low-income residents. In this way ‘food deserts’ with lack of fresh food options are getting transformed into ‘food mirages’ with the abundance of options, however, unaffordable to the marginalized communities.

Keywords: Social Justice; Governance; Sustainability & Resilience

Anguelovski, I., Connolly, J. J. T., Pearsall, H., Shokry, G., Checker, M., Maantay, J., Gould, K., Lewis, T., Maroko, A., & Roberts, J. T. (2019). Why green “climate gentrification” threatens poor and vulnerable populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(52), 26139–26143. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1920490117

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Anguelovski, Isabelle, Linda Shi, Eric Chu, Daniel Gallagher, Kian Goh, Zachary Lamb, Kara Reeve, and Hannah Teicher. “Equity Impacts of Urban Land Use Planning for Climate Adaptation: Critical Perspectives from the Global North and South.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 36, no. 3 (September 1, 2016): 333–48. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X16645166.

Municipal climate adaptation plans, including but not limited to GI, often generate or exacerbate  inequity for socio-economically vulnerable urban communities. Based on analysis from eight cities across the globe, this study analyzes and characterizes inequities in climate adaptation planning. They find that inequities in climate adaptation are widespread, are embedded in both process and outcomes of planning, and arise from prioritization of wealthier communities (at the expense of poorer ones) and from failure to explicitly consider current and/or historic inequities in planning. 

Keywords: Sustainability & Resilience

 

Anguelovski, Isabelle, Linda Shi, Eric Chu, Daniel Gallagher, Kian Goh, Zachary Lamb, Kara Reeve, and Hannah Teicher. “Towards Critical Studies of Climate Adaptation Planning: Uncovering the Equity Impacts of Urban Land Use Planning,” 2016. https://doi.org/10.17169/refubium-22234.

Emphasis on win-win solutions for climate adaptation can obscure uneven distribution of benefits and disbenefits of these interventions leading to adaptation injustices. This paper critically assesses the impact of climate adaptation approaches on socio-spatial inequalities in eight cities across the Global North and South. Authors find that climate adaptation strategies can become aligned with development interests or focus on implementation of technocratic solutions and ignore inequalities leading to ‘acts of commission’ that negatively impact or displace marginalised groups or ‘acts of omission’ that are blind to the needs of marginalised groups and prioritising the needs of urban elites. 

Keywords: Social Justice

 

Askarizadeh, A., Rippy, M. A., Fletcher, T. D., Feldman, D. L., Peng, J., Bowler, P., Mehring, A. S., Winfrey, B. K., Vrugt, J. A., Aghakouchak, A., Jiang, S. C., Sanders, B. F., Levin, L. A., Taylor, S., & Grant, S. B. (2015). From Rain Tanks to Catchments: Use of Low-Impact Development To Address Hydrologic Symptoms of the Urban Stream Syndrome. Environmental Science and Technology, 49(19): 11264–11280. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5b01635

A review and analysis of how to restore pre-development hydrology with low impact development (LID). The authors note that stormwater storage and/or harvesting is required and should play a larger role than infiltration to maintain stream hydrology. The authors recommend the following strategies for urban stream management: 1) tailored mixtures of storage, harvesting, infiltration, and LID solutions, 2) integrating grey and green infrastructure, 3) maximizing co-benefits, and 4) long-term monitoring.

Keywords: Ecosystem Services; Sustainability & Resilience; Planning & Design

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Basnou, C., Pino, J., & Terradas, J. (2015). Ecosystem services provided by green infrastructure in the urban environment. In CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources (Vol. 10). CABI International. https://doi.org/10.1079/PAVSNNR201510004

This literature review reviews the history of study of green infrastructure through and embedded in an urban ecology framework. The paper examines how green infrastructure may be evaluated through an ecosystem services (and disservices) lens and the pros, cons, and challenges of such a framing. 

Keywords: Ecosystem Services; Sustainability & Resilience

 

Basu, Sukanya, and Harini Nagendra. (2021). Perceptions of Park Visitors on Access to Urban Parks and Benefits of Green Spaces. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126959.

Accessibility to green spaces varies, driven, in part, by gender and income inequalities. Most park visitors in Hyderabad recognize the recreational value of the spaces, but they do not have access to provisional services. Parks with high entry fees and strict rules were found to limit accessibility to lower incomes households while those able to pay were unaware of the unequal access.

Keywords: Social Justice; Ecosystem Services

 

Bélanger, P. (2020). No Design on Stolen Land: Dismantling Design’s Dehumanising White Supremacy. Architectural Design, 90(1), 120–127. https://doi.org/10.1002/ad.2535

Urbanization cannot be separated from settler-colonialism at its most fundamental levels. The very design of cities and land development in general erases Indigenous history and perpetuates the white-centric status quo that exists today, whether this is a recognized function or not. Cities are designed for white people and leave all others to scrape by in competition with one another, all the while occupying stolen land. It is paradoxical for a society to claim to live by treaties when the very cities it builds and occupies were largely secured by breaking select treaties. The uninhabited wilderness that preceded modern cities is a myth created to justify their existence.

Keywords: Social Justice; Planning & Design

 

Bell, C. D., Spahr, K., Grubert, E., Stokes-Draut, J., Gallo, E., McCray, J. E., & Hogue, T. S. (2019). Decision Making on the Gray-Green Stormwater Infrastructure Continuum. Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment, 5(1), 04018016. https://doi.org/10.1061/jswbay.0000871

This review paper summarizes various factors of stormwater management infrastructure and categories infrastructure practice types according to form along a gray-green continuum. Additional attributes of each infrastructure practice type are organized in tables and include construction materials, typical sizes, functions, lifecycle costs, greenhouse gas production, and more. Lastly, input from a panel of experts from around the US was used to weight the relative importance of various factors on the stormwater infrastructure decisions.

Keyword: Planning & Design

 

Berg, Hanne J. van den, and Jesse M. Keenan. “Dynamic Vulnerability in the Pursuit of Just Adaptation Processes: A Boston Case Study.” Environmental Science & Policy 94 (April 1, 2019): 90–100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2018.12.015.

This paper argues improvements should be made to climate adaptation planning to ensure that processes that involve participatory engagement are not only distributive, but also procedurally just. To achieve these aims climate adaptation planning processes should evolve to include capacity to dynamically assess how the vulnerability of individuals or communities evolves over time. Differences between outcome (i.e. the end point of a sequence of adaptation processes) and contextual (i.e. inability to cope with external pressures or changes) vulnerability should also be accounted for.  Secondly, participatory engagement should be more collaborative and inclusive of community actors providing opportunities to acknowledge, engage with and provide representation to vulnerable groups since engagement with these groups is often peripheral. 

Key words: Social Justice; Governance

 

Berland, Adam, Dexter H. Locke, Dustin L. Herrmann, and Kirsten Schwarz. “Beauty or Blight? Abundant Vegetation in the Presence of Disinvestment Across Residential Parcels and Neighborhoods in Toledo, OH.” Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.566759.

Using satellite data manuscript explored relationships between vegetation cover and parcel occupancy in Toledo, OH. Results showed that vegetation abundance was high at both low- and high- vacancy block groups indicating that vegetation can be both an amenity and disamenity depending on the vegetation quality and maintenance.

Keywords: Social Justice; Ecosystem Services

 

Brand, A. L., & Miller, C. (n.d.). Tomorrow I’ll Be at the Table: Black Geographies and Urban Planning: A Review of the Literature. https://doi.org/10.1177/0885412220928575

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Broto, Vanesa Castán, and Enora Robin. “Climate Urbanism as Critical Urban Theory.” Urban Geography 0, no. 0 (November 17, 2020): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1850617.

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Brown, G., & Fagerholm, N. (2015). Empirical PPGIS/PGIS mapping of ecosystem services: A review and evaluation. Ecosystem Services, 13, 119–133. https://doi.org/10/ggscdb

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Bhavnani, K.-K., Foran, J., Kurian, P. A., & Munshi, D. (Eds.). (2019). Climate Futures: Re-imagining Global Climate Justice - ASLE. https://www.asle.org/stay-informed/member-bookshelf/climate-futures-re-imagining-global-climate-justice/

An exploration of climate change and social justice through multiple lenses such as of culture, gender, and race, within the context of colonial history and capitalism. The book offers multidisciplinary reflections on future development pathways that acknowledge interconnectedness of the human-nature domains. 

Keywords: Social Justice; Governance; Sustainability & Resilience

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Brown, J.A., Larson, K.L., Lerman, S.B., Childers, D.L., Andrade, R., Bateman, H.L., Hall, S.J., Warren, P.S., and York, A.M. (2020). Influences of Environmental and Social Factors on Perceived Bio-Cultural Services and Disservices. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.569730.

Urban ecological infrastructure varies significantly as do the services and disservices the spaces provide. To identify perceived bio-cultural services and disservices, the authors surveyed community members throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area. They found that identity, neighborhood cohesion, income, and environmental factors influenced perceptions.

Keywords: Ecosystem Services

 

Brown, S. C., Perrino, T., Lombard, J., Wang, K., Toro, M., Rundek, T., Gutierrez, C. M., Dong, C., Plater-Zyberk, E., Nardi, M. I., Kardys, J., & Szapocznik, J. (2018). Health disparities in the relationship of neighborhood greenness to mental health outcomes in 249,405 U.S. medicare beneficiaries. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(3), 430. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15030430

Study examines the occurrence of Alzheimer’s disease and depression in individuals 65 and older in Miami-Dade County, Florida in relation to greenness (presence of vegetation). Individuals living in green blocks were less likely to experience the diseases, particularly if they were from a low-income neighborhood. Greenness may reduce health risks due to opportunities for exercise, social interaction, and stress relief.

Keywords: Human Health

 

Buck, H. J., Martin, L. J., Geden, O., Kareiva, P., Koslov, L., Krantz, W., Kravitz, B., Noël, J., Parson, E. A., Preston, C. J., Sanchez, D. L., Scarlett, L., & Talati, S. (2020). Evaluating the efficacy and equity of environmental stopgap measures. Nature Sustainability, 3(7), 499–504. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-0497-6

A perspective piece that defines environmental “stop gap” measures as temporary, imperfect solutions to “buy time” to address a pressing socio-ecological issue. Stop gap measures are contrasted to similar concepts such as adaptive management, environmental fixes, and transition management. The authors provide an eight-point framework for evaluating stop gap measures, which are increasingly prevalent in environmental policy. Three cases are analyzed, and the framework is applied to evaluating a proposed technology for mitigating climate change: solar geoengineering.

Keywords: Social Justice; Governance, Sustainability & Resilience

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Buck, Kyle D., J. Kevin Summers, and Lisa M. Smith. “Investigating the Relationship between Environmental Quality, Socio-Spatial Segregation and the Social Dimension of Sustainability in US Urban Areas.” Sustainable Cities and Society, January 23, 2021, 102732. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.102732.

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Bulkeley, Harriet. “Climate Changed Urban Futures: Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene City.” Environmental Politics 0, no. 0 (February 1, 2021): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2021.1880713.

A reflection on changes in climate politics in the last 30 years. Cities became leaders in climate governance embedding ecosystem services and social justice in climate action.Urban experimentation is becoming a new form of governance. However, whether these actions are truly transformative and inclusive is still a question, as actors who can afford changes are also the ones to rip benefits.

Keywords: Social Justice; Governance; Sustainability & Resilience

 

Chen, Yuanyuan, Xinli Ke, Min Min, and Peng Cheng. (2020). Disparity in Perceptions of Social Values for Ecosystem Services of Urban Green Space: A Case Study in the East Lake Scenic Area, Wuhan. Frontiers in Public Health, 8:370. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00370.

This study explores the differences in perceptions of green spaces between residents and tourists in Wuhan, China. The results showed that residents value the recreational and economical benefits of green spaces, while tourists appreciated the cultural values and beautification. Residents prioritized distance from water as a primary driver of aesthetics while tourists identified distance from water and land cover as drivers.

Keywords: Ecosystem Services

 

Cheng, C. (2020). Climate justicescape and implications for urban resilience in American cities. In The Routledge Handbook of Urban Resilience.

Climate justicescape, the spatial patterns of climate justice, were evaluated against the social-ecological-technological framework to understand the applicability to urban resilience planning. Cheng found that climate justicescape could be useful for identifying disparities in between urban and rural communities, calculated and perceived risks; accountability for climate justice, and recognition of green infrastructure for adaptive capacity.

Keywords: SETS; Social Justice; Sustainability & Resilience

 

Childers, D. L., Bois, P., Hartnett, H. E., McPhearson, T., Metson, G. S., & Sanchez, C. A. (2019). Urban ecological infrastructure: An inclusive concept for the non-built urban environment. In Elementa (Vol. 7, Issue 1). University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.385

Many terms exist to describe ‘nature in cities.’ This paper reviews existing terminology around the world and proposes the use of a more inclusive term, ‘urban ecological infrastructure (UEI),’ defined as “all parts of a city that include ecological structures and functions.” UEI is promoted as a tool to increase urban resilience. 

Keywords: SETS; Ecosystem Services; Sustainability & Resilience

 

Chini, C. M., Canning, J. F., Schreiber, K. L., Peschel, J. M., & Stillwell, A. S. (2017). The green experiment: Cities, green stormwater infrastructure, and sustainability. Sustainability (Switzerland), 9(1). https://doi.org/10.3390/su9010105

Recognizing green infrastructure as a multidimensional system, the authors create a framework for evaluating green infrastructure plans across policy creation, implementation and maintenance, evaluation, and learning for six criteria: 1) problem oriented, 2) flexible and adaptive, 3) definite system boundaries, 4) social learning, 5) reiterative, and 6) development of researcher-practitioner relationships. The framework is applied to green infrastructure plans across 27 U.S. cities, which leads the authors to suggest “community involvement and communication, evaluation based on project motivation, and an iterative process for knowledge production” within green infrastructure plans.

Keywords: SETS; Sustainability & Resilience

 

Choudry, A., Hanley, J., & Shragge, E. (Eds.). (2012). Organize! Building from the Local for Global Justice. PM Press/Between the Lines. https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=422

A collection of multidisciplinary perspectives on organizing strategies written through the lens of social justice. 

Keywords: Social Justice; Governance

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Clary, J., Jones, J., Leisenring, M., Hobson, P., & Strecker, E. (2017). Final Report | International Stormwater BMP Database 2016 SUMMARY STATISTICS. www.werf.org

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Cole, H. V. S., Triguero-Mas, M., Connolly, J. J. T., & Anguelovski, I. (2019). Determining the health benefits of green space: Does gentrification matter? Health and Place, 57, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.02.001

The relationship between the active green space and self-reported health is investigated in the neighborhoods with various gentrification status in NYC. Active green space was associated with lower chance of reporting poor health in gentrifying neighborhoods but had no effect in wealthy and non-gentrifying areas. In gentrifying neighborhoods, only people with a college degree and higher income benefited from green space. Thus, gentrification does not benefit socio-economically vulnerable populations and racial minorities.

Keywords: Social Justice; Ecosystem Services; Human Health

 

Colla, S. R., Willis, E., & Packer, L. (2009). Can green roofs provide habitat for urban bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)? Cities and the Environment, 2(1).

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Cooper, C., Bracken, P. L., & Cunningham, N. (2020). Exploring the relationships between social, economic and health factors and Nature-based Solutions in European cities. 730243.

This report offers a literature review of GI through a nature-based solutions (NBS) framework and initial analysis of intersections between NBS and socio-economic and health indicators in European cities. They show acceleration in the implementation of NBS since 2005 and compare the spatial scale, funding, governance, and beneficiaries of NBS among regions in Europe. Socio-economic and health indicators show substantial variation among European cities, and are not correlated with the number of NBS.

Keywords: SETS; Governance; Ecosystem Services; Human Health; Sustainability & Resilience

 

Costanza-Cook, S. (2020). Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need. The MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/design-justice

Relationships between design and social justice are explored using “design justice” approach. Furthermore, the book presents case-studies of community-led design practices connected to social movements. 

Keywords: SETS; Social Justice; Sustainability & Resilience; Planning & Design

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Coulthard, G. S. (2014). Red Skin, White Masks Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. University of Minnesota Press.

The effectiveness of “recognition” for successful decolonization is challenged. Author examines alternative pathways of reestablishing indigenous practices through the process of self-recognition

Keywords: Social Justice; Governance

 

Cousins, J. J. (2021). Justice in nature-based solutions: Research and pathways. Ecological Economics, 180, 106874. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106874

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Coyne, Taylor, Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita, David Reid, and Veljko Prodanovic. “Culturally Inclusive Water Urban Design: A Critical History of Hydrosocial Infrastructures in Southern Sydney, Australia.” Blue-Green Systems, no. bgs2020017 (December 10, 2020). https://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2020.017.

A hydro-social examination of Sydney, Australia to establish the context in which water-sensitive urban design occurs. Discusses the Georges River in terms of how it was viewed during five historical phases since European colonization: 1) a secluded wilderness, 2) a resource for industry, 3) an uncontrollable threat, 4) a place for recreation, and 5) a part of the democratic social landscape.

Keywords: SETS

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Crosson, Courtney, Andrea Achilli, Adriana A. Zuniga-Teran, Elizabeth A. Mack, Tamee Albrecht, Padmendra Shrestha, Dominic L. Boccelli, et al. “Net Zero Urban Water from Concept to Applications: Integrating Natural, Built, and Social Systems for Responsive and Adaptive Solutions.” ACS ES&T Water, December 22, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.0c00180.

The authors describe a framework with progressive water use/management targets that can be used to free an urban system from dependence on outside water sources. The place-based, quantitative approach is integrative of all types of water (“One Water”), with scopes that cut across all SETS dimensions. The paper also discusses short- and long-term drivers of change in urban water balance and how they fit into the net zero urban water framework.

Keywords: SETS; Sustainability & Resilience; Governance

 

Curran, W., & Hamilton, T. (2012). Just green enough: Contesting environmental gentrification in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Local Environment, 17(9), 1027–1042. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2012.729569

Environmental remediation often results in gentrification and displacement. A study of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, explores how “just green enough” strategy can be utilized to clean the Newtown Creek at the same time preserving industrial uses that would continue supporting middle-class residents. 

Keywords: Social Justice; Governance; Ecosystem Services; Human Health; Sustainability & Resilience

 

Daniels, B., Jedamski, J., Ottermanns, R., & Ross-Nickoll, M. (2020). A “plan bee” for cities: Pollinator diversity and plant-pollinator interactions in urban green spaces. PLoS ONE, 15(7 July), 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235492

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Davies, C., & Lafortezza, R. (2017). Urban green infrastructure in Europe: Is greenspace planning and policy compliant? Land Use Policy, 69(August), 93–101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.08.018

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Dei, G. J. S. (2012). Indigenous anti-colonial knowledge as ‘heritage knowledge’ for promoting Black/African education in diasporic contexts. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1), 102–119. https://decolonization.org/index.php/des/article/view/18631/15559

Asserts that culture is the center of knowledge production and that, therefore, Indigenous African scholars must create knowledge from the perspectives, values, and practices of their own cultures, languages, and identities rather than those of the Euro-centric academia imposed upon them through colonialism. Discussions of this knowledge must be rooted in community rather than colonial "intellectual" merit. Individuals must own their education, and that education must be just and make room for the individuals it serves in ways that colonial education has not. The term 'colonial' is used to refer to anything that is forced or imposed. In establishing Indigenous anti-colonial knowledge, care must be taken that this knowledge remains anti-colonial rather than becoming  merely the "new colonial."

Keywords: Social Justice

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Deloria, V. (1992). Spiritual Management: Prospects for Restoration on Tribal Lands. Ecological Restoration, 10(1), 48–50. https://doi.org/10.3368/er.10.1.48

A reflection on spiritual management as a form of tribal land restoration. Conventional land management practices led to ecological disasters and stripped Native Americans of the right to manage their own lands, perpetuating the poverty cycle. Author advocates that the best way to restore land is to allow tribes to manage it according to their knowledge and beliefs.

Keywords: Social Justice; Governance; Ecosystem Services; Sustainability & Resilience

 

Deloria, V. (1997). Red earth, white lies : Native Americans and the myth of scientific fact. In Fulcrum Pub.

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Descher, Michael, and Sarah Sinasac. “Social-Psychological Determinants of the Implementation of Green Infrastructure for Residential Stormwater Management.” Environmental Management, November 23, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-020-01393-3.

This paper examines attitudes, perceptions, and beliefs that affect residents’ willingness  to implement lot-scale GI. Using the framework of the Theory of Planned Behavior, which models links between controls like beliefs and behaviors to generate strong predictions, the authors show that subjective norms (e.g., how they think neighbors or friends view GI) are strongly related to residents’ willingness to implement GI on their property, together with perceptions about the time and cost required for upkeep. In contrast, residents’ beliefs about GI effectiveness and attractiveness were not related to willingness to implement. 

Keywords: SETS; Social Justice; Governance; Planning & Design

 

Desfiandi, A., Rumawi, R., Setyobudi, A., Sebayang, A., Laisila, M., & Kurochkin, A. V. (2020). Nationalism makes SOEs as economic pillars for social justice. European Journal of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, 7(2), 1282–1295.

The importance of SOE for national development is discussed. It is executed through partnerships with local enterprises and community development programs. Furthermore, authors describe the natural richness of Indonesia, making a claim that it has all the resources for economic prosperity. Authors suggest that SOE should work closer with communities in the form of providing dividends from SOE partnerships. 

Keywords: Social Justice; Governance; Ecosystem Services; Sustainability & Resilience

 

Dewulf, A., Klenk, N., Wyborn, C., & Lemos, M. C. (2020). Usable environmental knowledge from the perspective of decision-making: The logics of consequentiality, appropriateness, and meaningfulness. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 42: 1–6. https://doi.org/10/ghgssj

Knowledge production is reliant on decision-making processes, and so the authors explore three decision-making logics: consequentiality, appropriateness, and meaningfulness. This assessment indicates that diverse perspectives of decision-making can create a fuller understanding of environmental sciences and help with knowledge co-production between researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners. 

Keywords: Governance

 

Donovan, Geoffrey H., Jeffrey P. Prestemon, David T. Butry, Abigail R. Kaminski, and Vicente J. Monleon. “The Politics of Urban Trees: Tree Planting Is Associated with Gentrification in Portland, Oregon.” Forest Policy and Economics 124 (March 1, 2021): 102387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2020.102387.

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Drakes, Oronde, Eric Tate, Jayton Rainey, and Samuel Brody. “Social Vulnerability and Short-Term Disaster Assistance in the United States.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 53 (February 1, 2021): 102010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.102010.

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Dregallo, David Gore. “It’s Not Easy Being Green: An Examination of Gentrification, Green Gentrification, and Unity Park in Greenville, South Carolina.” B.S., Whitman College, 2020. https://arminda.whitman.edu/islandora/object/arminda%3A65228/datastream/PDF/view.

In this thesis, Dregallo examines a case study in green gentrification (surrounding Unity Park in Greenville, SC) through Environmental Justice, Critical Environmental Justice, and neo-Marxian lenses. Beginning with a thorough review of these theories and their application to urban ecosystems, the thesis moves on to describe an analysis of gentrification resulting from the construction of Unity Park based on data from semi-structured interviews.

Keywords: Social Justice; Governance

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Eakin, H., Parajuli, J., Yogya, Y., Hernández, B., and Manheim, M. (2021). Entry Points for Addressing Justice and Politics in Urban Flood Adaptation Decision Making. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 51: 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.01.001.

The authors identify six processes by which stormwater managers can engage in dialogue surrounding justice and politics based on recent publications: “1) knowledge co-production in adaptation planning, 2) attention to framing, 3) decisions on spatial scale and scope, 4) considerations of heterogeneous social values, 5) addressing social-political uncertainty, and 6) evaluating participation and implementation capacity.” 

Keywords: Social Justice; Governance

 

Eckart, K., McPhee, Z., & Bolisetti, T. (2017). Performance and implementation of low impact development – A review. In Science of the Total Environment (Vols. 607–608, pp. 413–432). Elsevier B.V. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.06.254

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Hilde Eggermont, Estelle Balian, José Manuel N. Azevedo, Victor Beumer, Tomas Brodin, et al.. (2015). Nature-based Solutions: New Influence for Environmental Management and Research in Europe Nature-based Solutions, an Emerging Term. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, oekom verlag, 24 (4), p. 243-248. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.24.4.9

The utility of NBS for addressing environmental and societal challenges is discussed. Authors provide a typology that characterizes NBS based on the gradients of technological interventions and ecosystem services involvement. Discussion continues with the opportunities and risks involving the use of emerging framework.

Keywords: SETS; Governance; Ecosystem Services

 

Ehrman-Solberg, Kevin, Bonnie Keeler, Kate Derickson, and Kirsten Delegard. “Mapping a Path towards Equity: Reflections on a Co-Creative Community Praxis.” GeoJournal, September 11, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-020-10294-1.

A description of two projects that drawing from the community and feminist geography theories attempted to utilize ethical, equitable and transformative process of community engagement resulting in the knowledge that is beneficial for both parities involved. Key takeaways: place-based scholarship accounting for the history and current experiences of communities involved; iterative model that acknowledges that interests might shift throughout the process, and iterative sharing of intermittent results; long-term commitment. Healthy partnerships can be based on shared interests, shared goals, or shared activities. 

Keywords: Social Justice

 

Erdman, Stephen Migliore. “Resilience Special Assessments for Housing Security: A Model for Mitigating Climate and Environmental Gentrification in New York City.” M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020.

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Estes, N. (2019). Our history is the future : Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of indigenous resistance. In Verso.

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Finewood, M. H. (2016). Green Infrastructure, Grey Epistemologies, and the Urban Political Ecology of Pittsburgh’s Water Governance. Antipode, 48(4), 1000–1021. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12238

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Finewood, M. H., & Holifield, R. (2015). Critical approaches to urban water governance: from critique to justice, democracy, and transdisciplinary collaboration. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2(2), 85–96. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1066

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Finewood, M. H., Matsler, A. M., & Zivkovich, J. (2019). Green Infrastructure and the Hidden Politics of Urban Stormwater Governance in a Postindustrial City. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 109(3), 909–925. https://doi.org/10/gfv7c9

Integration of green infrastructure (and particularly green stormwater infrastructure, GSI) into the broader portfolio of urban infrastructure is examined using a SETS framework. The discussion points out how current conceptions of GSI emphasize the technological lens at the expense of the social, obscuring the politics embedded in decision-making and implementation of GSI. The authors argue that resisting a shift to a mainly-technical view of GSI by keeping the discussion “hot” can help achieve a broader scope of multifunctionality and co-benefits with GI. They conducted interviews of professionals and activists, which revealed just such a discursive shift and exclusion of other perspectives around GI in Pittsburgh, PA.

Keywords: SETS; Social Justice; Governance; Ecosystem Services; Sustainability & Resilience; Planning & Design

 

Finn, D., & Mccormick, L. (2011). Urban climate change plans: How holistic? Local Environment, 16(4), 397–416. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2011.579091

This article seeks to analyze the sustainability plans for NYC, LA, and Chicago, interrogating the relationship between climate change planning and a holistic interpretation of sustainability. To do this, they first propose what they call a more holistic version of sustainability than the three-legged stool, with components as follows: "(1) environmental protection and improvement, (2) procedural equity, (3) geographic equity, (4) social equity, (5) equitable economic development and (6) green economic development." They argue that the plans are primarily focused on Point 1 of this sustainability framing. Green Economic Development and Procedural Equity are both subjects of discussion, but the authors point out that these are often seen as separate from mainstream approaches to similar concepts. For example, little connection is demonstrated between sustainability planning and broader economic development planning. Finally, the authors find that geographic equity, social equity, and equitable economic development remain largely at the level of rhetoric in these plans. 

Keywords: Social Justice, Sustainability & Resilience; Planning & Design

 

Firehock, K., & Walker, R.A. (2015). Strategic Green Infrastructure Planning: A Multi-Scale Approach. Island Press. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-693-6

This handbook outlines six steps for strategic green infrastructure (GI) planning: 1) set goals, 2) review data, 3) make asset maps, 4) assess risks, 5) determine opportunities, and 6) implement opportunities. Addressing land-use managers directly, this handbook explores GI implementation in a variety of contexts (e.g., spatial, multi-dimensional) with an applicable, digestible approach. 

Keywords: Ecosystem Services; Planning & Design

 

Firth, Louise B., Laura Airoldi, Fabio Bulleri, Steve Challinor, Su-Yin Chee, Ally J. Evans, Mick E. Hanley, et al. “Greening of Grey Infrastructure Should Not Be Used as a Trojan Horse to Facilitate Coastal Development.” Journal of Applied Ecology 57, no. 9 (2020): 1762–68. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13683.

While integrated greening of gray infrastructure (IGGI) associated with coastal development (adding or modifying built structures to facilitate their use as habitat for native organisms, e.g., by drilling artificial pools into concrete structures) can help to offset negative impacts to biodiversity, coastal GI is still not as good a habitat as natural coastal landscapes. The authors argue that we should be wary of greenwashing of IGGI, and that IGGI projects should be studied in more places, for longer times, and with greater depth to avoid potential negative ecological impacts, and negative or other unintended consequences of IGGI should see publication.

Keywords: Ecosystem Services; Sustainability & Resilience; Planning & Design

 

Fithian, L. (n.d.). Shut It Down – Stories From a Fierce, Loving Resistance. Retrieved February 10, 2021, from https://shutitdownnow.org/

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Fletcher, T. D., Shuster, W., Hunt, W. F., Ashley, R., Butler, D., Arthur, S., Trowsdale, S., Barraud, S., Semadeni-Davies, A., Bertrand-Krajewski, J.-L., Mikkelsen, P. S., Rivard, G., Uhl, M., Dagenais, D., & Viklander, M. (2015). SUDS, LID, BMPs, WSUD and more – The evolution and application of terminology surrounding urban drainage. Urban Water Journal, 12(7), 525–542. https://doi.org/10.1080/1573062X.2014.916314

Numerous terminologies exist for the management of urban stormwater (including, but not limited to, best management practices, green infrastructure, integrated urban water management, low impact development, stormwater control measures, sustainable urban drainage systems, and water sensitive urban design), and, thus, this paper reviews the evolution and current understanding of these existing terms. The authors state that terminology should be able continuing to evolve in local contexts, but professionals should be explicit in their use.

Keywords: Sustainability & Resilience  

 

Foster, J. (2006). Restoration of the Don Valley Brick Works: Whose Restoration? Whose Space? Journal of Urban Design, 3: 331-351. https://doi.org/10.1080/13574800500297702

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Fu, Xin, Matthew Hopton, and Xinhao Wang. “Assessment of Green Infrastructure Performance through an Urban Resilience Lens.” Journal of Cleaner Production, November 18, 2020, 125146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125146.

The authors develop and present a planning support system for evaluating urban watershed-scale GI implementation through a resilience lens that integrates environmental, social, economic, and cultural dimensions. The planning support system presented here is a decision support tool that incorporates spatial data, expert knowledge, stakeholder input, etc. to help visualize and define options and rank scenarios according to an index score that combines multiple indicators across dimensions of urban resilience. An example of this system is shown through application to the Congress Run watershed in Ohio.

Keywords: Sustainability & Resilience