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

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

SLU Authors

• Raymond, Christopher

  • Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    
  • University of Helsinki

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities


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