Operative Metropolitan Transformations: A Prospective for Equitable Resilience
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 745
Special Issue Editors
Interests: resilient design; green infrastructure; climate adaptation; urban policy and code; landscape urbanism; urban design
Interests: community resilience; community development as an arena of practice for health professionals; healthy cities and communities; qualitative methods; critical social theory; settings approach in health promotion; social context; environmental health promotion; environmental justice; social movement as agents of social change
Interests: community climate resilience; structural and political determinants of health; community dialogue and organizing; civic engagement; participatory policy making
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate resilience and adaptation planning have been criticized for overlooking social vulnerability and failing to engage with issues of equity and power. This places a focus on the vulnerability of marginalized populations to the impacts of climate adaptation planning policy action. This Special Issue invites authors to define and identify attributes that link social equity to physical urban resilience. These links occur at the intersection of sociodemographic information, geophysical conditions, urban form, planning policy, public health, and climate risks. The issue aims to highlight the environmental, infrastructural, social, economic, and cultural inventories and tools necessary for transforming untapped and underutilized public assets across metropolitan regions. The issue also aims to directly address potential dangers of climate-induced gentrification brought upon by 1) unequal publicly funded blue-green infrastructure investment at the expense of other social services, 2) increased land values through enhanced protection from risk, and 3) increased financial pressures through more stringent building codes, retrofits, or insurance premiums.
Please note that this issue requires a two-step submission, please “Submit Abstract to Special Issue” first. Abstracts due 30 June 2021.
Prof. Fadi Masoud
Dr. Blake Poland
Dr. Imara Ajani Rolston
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- equitable resilience
- urban adaptation
- climate gentrification
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