1st Edition

Injustice in Urban Sustainability Ten Core Drivers

170 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book uses a unique typology of ten core drivers of injustice to explore and question common assumptions around what urban sustainability means, how it can be implemented, and how it is manifested in or driven by urban interventions that hinge on claims of sustainability. Aligned with critical environmental justice studies, the book highlights the contradictions of urban sustainability in... Read more

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Urban sustainability beyond techno-political fixes: An exploration of 10 core drivers of injustice

1. Driver 1: Material and Livelihood Inequalities

2. Driver 2: Racialized or Ethnically Exclusionary Urbanization

3. Driver 3: Uneven Urban and Intensification and Regeneration

4. Driver 4: Uneven Environmental Health and Pollution Patterns

5. Driver 5: Exclusive Access to the Benefits of Urban Sustainability Infrastructure

6. Driver 6: Unfit Institutional Structures

7. Driver 7: Weakened Civil Society

8. Driver 8: Limited Citizen Participation

9. Driver 9: Power-Knowledge Asymmetries

10. Driver 10: The Growth Imperative and Neoliberal Urbanism

Conclusion

References

Index

Biography

Panagiota Kotsila is a postdoctoral researcher based at Institute for Environmental Sciences and Technology-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) and the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ).

Isabelle Anguelovski is the director of BCNUEJ, an ICREA research professor, a senior researcher and principal investigator at ICTA-UAB.

Melissa García-Lamarca is a postdoctoral researcher based at ICTA-UAB and the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ).

Filka Sekulova is a postdoctoral fellow at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and an associate researcher at the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ) and ICTA-UAB.