How deep does justice go? Addressing ecological, indigenous, and infrastructural justice through nature-based solutions in New York City

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ID8078239
AutoresZbigniew R Grabowski (0000-0002-1698-6308, Technical University of Munich), Zbigniew Jakub Grabowski, Katinka Wijsman (0000-0001-6609-7878, Utrecht University), Claudia Tomateo (0000-0001-9989-9359, New School), Timon Mcphearson (0000-0002-9499-0791, New School, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume138
Páginas171-181
Data de publicação2022-10-22
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironmental Science & Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1462-9011 • E-ISSN: 1873-6416
EditoraElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.envsci.2022.09.022
OpenAlexW4307903976
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas76

Scholarship on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) primarily focuses on the potential for NbS to deliver multiple benefits to humans and biodiversity from networked natural systems. These approaches, if enacted without sensitivity to local contexts and histories, can deepen long standing injustices resulting from the destruction of complex self-organizing ecological systems, the usurpation of Indigenous governance and knowledge, and the prioritization of technical managerial approaches transforming nature into infrastructure. Here we review, synthesize, and critically reflect on existing scholarship on the rise of NbS in New York City, USA, to inform environmental policy in support of just transformations of complex urban systems. To do so, we examine NbS within the context of the social-ecological-technological system (SETS) of NYC. We organize our review and synthesis around three interrelated concepts of justice: Ecological, Indigenous Environmental, and Infrastructural Justice. Ecological Justice entails addressing the harms, needs, and desired futures of ecological actors while identifying synergies with human focused environmental justice concerns and movements. Indigenous Environmental Justice requires restoring Indigenous systems of governance and knowledge while making space for a diversity of social-ecological practices of marginalized communities. Infrastructural Justice addresses the historical and ongoing injustices perpetuated through mainstream infrastructure policy and design practice – including Environmental Justice concerns – which have increasingly turned towards NbS. Without embedding these principles within emergent NbS focused environmental policy agendas seeking just transformations, they will likely recreate utilitarian, anthropocentric, and colonial modes of managing nature as infrastructure. We conclude with a research-to-action agenda for meeting the interdependent needs of urban ecosystems and humans

Biology · Business · Context (archaeology · Corporate governance · Ecological systems theory · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Environmental governance · Environmental justice · Geography · Indigenous · Mainstream · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Urban Green Space and Health · Ecology