Urban socio-ecological imaginaries: the discourses of urban natures

The discourses of urban natures, their practices and outcomes are crucial to understand urban environmental injustice and inequality: There is a growing global awareness of the environmental crisis (global warming, new diseases, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, pollution…):     Click here to read a list of topics on which further research is needed.

Urban socio-ecological movements and the struggles for justice

A key theme in environmental justice is the work of environmental justice movements. According to Agyeman (2005), EJM’s do not propose a progressive socio-ecological utopia. They are: reactionary defensive demonstrating against injustices Urban political ecology has paid less empirical attention to environmental justice movements and placed more emphasis on questions of intense social struggle (Swyngedouw and [...]

Urban political ecology

Urban political ecology (UPE) is a school of critical urban political-environmental research (Heynen et al. 2006b) which complements the view of Environmental Justice: On the basis of the school of urban political ecology there are three main thinkers:   Click here to read references to some urban political ecology monographs. The main ideas of urban political ecology [...]

Urban environmental justice

There is an increasing literature on environmental justice (EJ), which focuses on: But, what is environmental justice?  What does environmental justice do? The concept of environmental justice emerged in the United States: In the 1970s, as opposition to toxic sites near deprived communities In the 1980s, as protests against environmental racism (Schlosberg, 2003, 2007) The pioneers were: [...]