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Research article2022Peer reviewed

Planning Ecologically Just Cities: A Framework to Assess Ecological Injustice Hotspots for Targeted Urban Design and Planning of Nature-Based Solutions

Pineda-Pinto, Melissa; Frantzeskaki, Niki; Chandrabose, Manoj; Herreros-Cantis, Pablo; McPhearson, Timon; Nygaard, Christian A.; Raymond, Christopher

Abstract

This paper presents a typology of ecological injustice hotspots for targeted design of nature-based solutions to guide planning and designing of just cities. The typology demonstrates how the needs and capabilities of nonhuman nature can be embedded within transitions to multi- and interspecies relational futures that regenerate and protect urban social-ecological systems. We synthesise the findings of previous quantitative and qualitative analyses to develop the Ecologically Just Cities Framework that (1) works as a diagnostic tool to characterise four types of urban ecological injustices and (2) identifies nature-based planning actions that can best respond to different types of place-based ecological injustices.

Keywords

Nature-based solutions; ecological justice; social-ecological-technological systems; cities; urban; conceptual framework; science

Published in

Urban Policy and Research
2022, Volume: 40, number: 3, pages: 206-222
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

    Sustainable Development Goals

    Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

    UKÄ Subject classification

    Landscape Architecture

    Publication identifier

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2022.2093184

    Permanent link to this page (URI)

    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/119152