From the Ground Up
Why Urban Ecological Restoration Needs Environmental Justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15445403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Colette R Palamar (corresponding author), Colette Palamar |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 277-298 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-13 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1558-6073 • E-ISSN: 1558-5468 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/nc.2010.050304 |
| OpenAlex | W1996465446 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
While increasing urbanization intensifies the need for ecological restoration in densely populated areas, projects implemented in urban settings are often beset with conflicts stemming from a mismatch between traditional restoration practices and social realities. As ecological restoration practitioners seek to protect and remediate urban ecosystems, I contend that the broad set of principles developed by the environmental justice movement can provide an excellent conceptual framework for integrating social ecologies into restoration plans. Successful integration is constrained, however, by a number of challenges both within the Principles of Environmental Justice and ecological restoration theory and practice. Using a case study of New York City's Green Guerillas community gardening program, I show how the principles can begin to be operationalized to provide an effective grounding methodology for the design, development, and implementation of urban restoration projects
Economic Justice · Environmental justice · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · environmental restoration · Geography · Operationalization · Political science · Restoration Ecology · Sociology · Urban ecosystem · Urbanization · Environmental Science · Law · Organic Food and Agriculture · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability · Urban Green Space and Health · Ecology
Past results and future directions in urban community gardens research
Reprint of “Unruly grasses
Homelessness and nature across landscapes and disciplines
Guerrilla Gardening in a Time of Ecological and Social Crisis
Re-storying Grant Creek
The governance of community gardens as commons and its role in the socio-ecological outcomes of gardening in Austin, Texas, USA
Vacancy as a laboratory
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |