The green city under scrutiny
A scalar and decolonial scoping review on the green city critique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17736508 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karen Waneska De Jesus (0009-0001-5375-2607, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, corresponding author), Roberta Cucca (0000-0002-1419-0330, Norwegian University of Life Sciences) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Pages | 1-20 |
| Publication date | 2026-03-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Local Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-9839 • E-ISSN: 1469-6711 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13549839.2026.2644487 |
| OpenAlex | W7140817568 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 84 |
Human geography · Placemaking · Politics · Sustainability · Urban planning · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Sustainable Building Design and Assessment · Urban Planning and Governance
Degrowth
The Politics of the Encounter
In the Nature of Cities
Mapping urban risk
The study of urban metabolism and its applications to urban planning and design
Unequal exchange of labour in the world economy
Shifting Approaches to Planning Theory
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
Quantifying national responsibility for climate breakdown
Why green “climate gentrification” threatens poor and vulnerable populations
Green Gentrification, Social Justice, and Climate Change in the Literature
Spatialising degrowth, degrowing urban planning
Post-growth municipalism
Are green cities sustainable? A degrowth critique of sustainable urban development in Copenhagen
Socio-ecological inequalities in housing consumption
Environmental Justice in Latin America
The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism
Green Gentrification
Roadmap towards justice in urban climate adaptation research
Mainstreaming Urban Metabolism
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Metabolism
Only for the Global North? Questioning the ‘who should degrow’ issue
Green Sacrifice Zones, or Why a Green New Deal Cannot Ignore the Cost Shifts of Just Transitions
Is adaptation a local responsibility
Plunder in the Post-Colonial Era
Imperialist appropriation in the world economy
The decarbonisation divide
Global patterns of ecologically unequal exchange
Just” Means “Just” Everywhere
Equity Impacts of Urban Land Use Planning for Climate Adaptation
Financial geography II – green finance and climate transition
Thinking cities through elsewhere
Subnational Climate Justice? Adaptation Finance Distribution and Climate Vulnerability
Climate urbanism
Assessing green gentrification in historically disenfranchised neighborhoods
Political Ecologies of Gentrification
Sustainable for whom? Green urban development, environmental gentrification, and the Atlanta Beltline
Global finance and the land grab
Latin American Environmental Thinking
Seeing Green in San Francisco
Why does everyone think cities can save the planet
Urban green gentrification in an unequal world of climate change
Urban green grabbing
Globalising sustainable development
Progress Report—Urban Political Ecology
Neo-Colonialism
From pro-growth and planetary limits to degrowth and decoloniality
The 21st-Century Metropolis
Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice
Banking Nature? The Spectacular Financialisation of Environmental Conservation
The unbearable heaviness of climate coloniality
The anti-colonial politics of degrowth
Political Ecology
Planetary Urbanization and Imperialism
Debating planetary urbanization
Journeys through planetary urbanization
Extended urbanization in and from Brazil
Spaces of Extraction, Metropolitan Explosions
Towards a Postcolonial Perspective on Climate Urbanism
Who's Afraid of Postcolonial Theory
Low-Carbon Gentrification
Postcolonizing Planetary Urbanization
Whose Knowledge, Whose nature? Biodiversity, Conservation, and the Political Ecology of Social Movements
Towards an urban degrowth
Decolonizing Environmental Justice Studies
"Wiped Out by the "Greenwave
Green Grabbing
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |