TY - JOUR
T1 - “They Didn’t See It Coming”
T2 - Green Resilience Planning and Vulnerability to Future Climate Gentrification
AU - Shokry, Galia
AU - Anguelovski, Isabelle
AU - Connolly, James J.T.
AU - Maroko, Andrew
AU - Pearsall, Hamil
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - As cities strive to protect vulnerable residents from climate risks and impacts, recent studies have identified a challenging link between these measures and gentrification processes that reconfigure, but do not necessarily eliminate, climate insecurities. Green resilient infrastructure (GRI) may especially increase the vulnerability of lower income communities of color to gentrification, an issue that remains underexplored. Drawing on the forerunner green city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as our case study, this article adopts a novel intersectional approach to assess overlapping and interdependent factors in generating vulnerability and resilience using spatial quantitative data and qualitative interviews with community-based organizers, nonprofits, and municipal stakeholders. More specifically, this article develops a new methodology to assess vulnerability to future climate gentrification and contributes to debates on the role of urban development, housing, and sustainability practices in climate justice dynamics. It also informs strategies that can reduce social and racial inequities in the context of climate adaptation planning.
AB - As cities strive to protect vulnerable residents from climate risks and impacts, recent studies have identified a challenging link between these measures and gentrification processes that reconfigure, but do not necessarily eliminate, climate insecurities. Green resilient infrastructure (GRI) may especially increase the vulnerability of lower income communities of color to gentrification, an issue that remains underexplored. Drawing on the forerunner green city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as our case study, this article adopts a novel intersectional approach to assess overlapping and interdependent factors in generating vulnerability and resilience using spatial quantitative data and qualitative interviews with community-based organizers, nonprofits, and municipal stakeholders. More specifically, this article develops a new methodology to assess vulnerability to future climate gentrification and contributes to debates on the role of urban development, housing, and sustainability practices in climate justice dynamics. It also informs strategies that can reduce social and racial inequities in the context of climate adaptation planning.
KW - adaptation planning
KW - climate gentrification
KW - climate justice
KW - green infrastructure
KW - resilience
KW - vulnerability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85114702769&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/10511482.2021.1944269
DO - 10.1080/10511482.2021.1944269
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85114702769
SN - 1051-1482
VL - 32
SP - 211
EP - 245
JO - Housing Policy Debate
JF - Housing Policy Debate
IS - 1
ER -