TY - JOUR
T1 - Environmental justice implications of siting criteria in urban green infrastructure planning
AU - Hoover, Fushcia Ann
AU - Meerow, Sara
AU - Grabowski, Zbigniew J.
AU - McPhearson, Timon
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by JPB Foundation; National Science Foundation [Grant Number #1934933, #1444755, #1927167, DBI-1639145], National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) and National Science Foundation [grant number DEB–1832016], Central Arizona–Phoenix Long–Term Ecological Research Program (CAP LTER). We gratefully acknowledge the support of The JPB Foundation for this work, through a project entitled “Environment, Health, and Poverty: Is Green Infrastructure a Universal Good?”.
Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge the support of The JPB Foundation for this work, through a project entitled “Environment, Health, and Poverty: Is Green Infrastructure a Universal Good?”.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Green infrastructure (GI) has become a panacea for cities working to enhance sustainability and resilience. While the rationale for GI primarily focuses on its multifunctionality (e.g. delivering multiple ecosystem services to local communities), uncertainties remain around how, for whom, and to what extent GI delivers these services. Additionally, many scholars increasingly recognize potential disservices of GI, including gentrification associated with new GI developments. Building on a novel dataset of 119 planning documents from 19 U.S. cities, we utilize insights from literature on justice in urban planning to examine the justice implications of criteria used in the siting of GI projects. We analyze the GI siting criteria described in city plans and how they explicitly or implicitly engage environmental justice. We find that justice is rarely explicitly discussed, yet the dominant technical siting criteria that focus on stormwater and economic considerations have justice implications. We conclude with recommendations for centering justice in GI spatial planning.
AB - Green infrastructure (GI) has become a panacea for cities working to enhance sustainability and resilience. While the rationale for GI primarily focuses on its multifunctionality (e.g. delivering multiple ecosystem services to local communities), uncertainties remain around how, for whom, and to what extent GI delivers these services. Additionally, many scholars increasingly recognize potential disservices of GI, including gentrification associated with new GI developments. Building on a novel dataset of 119 planning documents from 19 U.S. cities, we utilize insights from literature on justice in urban planning to examine the justice implications of criteria used in the siting of GI projects. We analyze the GI siting criteria described in city plans and how they explicitly or implicitly engage environmental justice. We find that justice is rarely explicitly discussed, yet the dominant technical siting criteria that focus on stormwater and economic considerations have justice implications. We conclude with recommendations for centering justice in GI spatial planning.
KW - Green infrastructure
KW - content analysis
KW - environmental justice
KW - urban planning
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U2 - 10.1080/1523908X.2021.1945916
DO - 10.1080/1523908X.2021.1945916
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85109339986
SN - 1523-908X
VL - 23
SP - 665
EP - 682
JO - Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning
JF - Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning
IS - 5
ER -