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Date: | 2021 |
Abstract: | The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has mainstreamed as an interdisciplinary framework in the urban sustainability and resilience agenda. While the uptake of ES in urban areas is deeply entangled with multiple values, trade-offs, institutions, management and planning approaches, there is still a lack of a comprehensive and systematic framework to address environmental justice (EJ) in urban ES assessments. This article presents a systematic literature review to examine what factors are critical for the effective inclusion of an EJ lens in urban ES appraisals. More specifically, we assessed how distributional, procedural and recognitional EJ dimensions have been addressed, and in relation to which types of urban ES. Our results reveal that EJ considerations are currently focused on the (un)equal distribution of ES and the associated green and blue infrastructure with regard to socioeconomic groups, with special attention to income and race/ethnicity as the main mechanisms of social stratification. There is also a predominant focus on regulating and cultural ES, analyzing their role on resilience and adaptive capacity on one hand, and recreational values, social cohesion and place-making on the other. In this review, we also evaluate the interconnected dimensions of justice and their constraints, and lay out pathways for new research into intersectional and restorative approaches to justice in ES assessments. Finally, we interrogate what the role of urban ES-based planning might be in making more inclusive and just cities and explore its implications for policy and practice. |
Grants: | Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-775 European Commission 730243 European Commission 869324 European Commission 678034 European Commission 818002 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PCIN-2016-002 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CEX2019-000940-M |
Note: | Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M |
Note: | Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB |
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Language: | Anglès |
Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
Subject: | Green spaces ; Urban green infrastructure ; Cities ; Trade-offs ; Equity ; Environmental benefits |
Published in: | Landscape and urban planning, Vol. 214 (October 2021) , art. 104130, ISSN 0169-2046 |
16 p, 2.9 MB |