Reframing Urban Nature-Based Solutions Through Perspectives of Environmental Justice and Privilege
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22018253 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Willi Bauer (0000-0002-3241-4553, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635 |
| Publisher | Cogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17645/up.v8i1.6018 |
| OpenAlex | W4310053245 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 76 |
Since its introduction, the concept of “nature-based solutions” has gained much attention, drawing public funds and private investments. Nature-based solutions conceptualise the use of nature in planning as a cost-efficient and sustainable means to address societal, economic, and ecological challenges. However, this “triple win” premise tends to conceal potentially resulting injustices, such as displacement through green gentrification. While these injustices have attracted the attention of environmental justice scholars, as exemplified by the “just green enough” approach, links to the “nature-based solutions” concept are mostly implicit. Further, the concept of environmental privilege, questioning who benefits from created natural amenities, has rarely been taken up. This article, therefore, argues that environmental justice should be linked closely to nature-based solutions. Supported by a theoretical perspective, the article aims at exploring who benefits from, and who loses out on, urban nature-based solutions processes. It builds on a qualitative literature review of the scholarly landscape on environmental justice and urban greening while linking to nature-based solutions, adding perspectives of environmental privilege. In this, it attempts to offer three important contributions to the current academic discussion. First, the article provides an overview of the debate on urban greening, (in)justice, and environmental privilege. Second, it relates the concept of nature-based solutions to the debate on environmental justice, opening nature-based solutions up for critique and conceptual refinements. Third, it outlines a way forward for reframing nature-based solutions through the lens of environmental justice and privilege. Thus, this article provides a starting point for further discussions on the implementation of just nature-based solutions in cities
Cognitive reframing · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Environmental justice · Environmental studies · Epistemology · Mainstream · Political science · Premise · Sociology · Sustainable development · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Law · Social Psychology · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability · Urban Green Space and Health
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Tracing and building up environmental justice considerations in the urban ecosystem service literature
Green Apartheid
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From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a ‘Post-Socialist’ Age
Green Gentrification
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A just urban ecosystem service governance at the neighbourhood level- perspectives from Sofielund, Malmö, Sweden
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Whose knowledge counts in nature-based solutions? Understanding epistemic justice for nature-based solutions through a multi-city comparison across Europe and Asia
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The governance of nature-based solutions in the city at the intersection of justice and equity
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Conversations in Environmental Justice
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"Wiped Out by the "Greenwave
Toward a Critical Environmental Justice Studies
| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 3,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |