Missing the Housing for the Trees: Equity in Urban Climate Planning

Angelo, Hillary; MacFarlane, Key; Sirigotis, James; Millard‐Ball, Adam

doi:10.1177/0739456x211072527

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“…Additionally, there is still uncertainty and lack of consensus around what equity means in a municipal climate action planning context (Angelo et al, 2020), which was highlighted by participants who felt there are limited tangible tools and resources to understand the intersections of justice, equity, and sustainability in climate action planning and how to apply this understanding. This suggests that while there are steps being taken to address the equity deficit, municipalities still require practical knowledge, resources, and tools of how to do this work, meaningfully and appropriately.…”

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Closing the equity deficit: Sustainability justice in municipal climate action planning in Waterloo region

Dobai

Riemer

2023

American J of Comm Psychol

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There is growing recognition that often well‐intended climate action solutions perpetuate and exacerbate manifestations of colonialism and racism due to the lack of equity and justice considerations in designing and implementing these solutions. There is limited research exploring why the integration of these considerations are lacking in municipal climate action planning. This exploratory descriptive qualitative study explored how municipal actors perceive and understand equity and justice in municipal climate action planning as a step toward addressing this issue. Semistructured interviews were conducted with seven members of the core management group from ClimateAction Waterloo region, and a template analysis of the interview data resulted in six themes. Findings suggested that those involved in municipal climate action planning understand and perceive justice and equity considerations as important to their work, however, translating this understanding to practice is a challenge due to structural (governmental and societal) and capacity (limited time, funding, resources, and knowledge) barriers. By better understanding how key actors consider justice and equity, we identify shifting colonial mental models as a potential pathway for transformative change given the central role of these actors.

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Closing the equity deficit: Sustainability justice in municipal climate action planning in Waterloo region

Dobai

Riemer

2023

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…Even where climate action planning occurs on a large scale, equity issues are often left out. For example, Angelo et al (2022) found that in 170 local climate action plans in California, 39% of plans made no mention of equity.…”

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“…A major concern of sociological scholarship resides in the level of coverage and equity in climate action planning (Angelo et al., 2022; Roy et al., 2022). Since most climate action planning occurs at the city level, many cities, smaller towns and rural regions lack protection.…”

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The forms of climate action

Almeida,

González Márquez,

Fonsah

2023

Sociology Compass

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Scientific research on the mechanisms to address global warming and its consequences continues to proliferate in the context of an accelerating climate emergency. The concept of climate action includes multiple meanings, and several types of actors employ its use to manage the crisis. The term has evolved to incorporate many of the suggested strategies to combat global warming offered by international bodies, states, nongovernmental organizations, the private sector, and social movements. The present work offers a classification scheme to build a shared understanding of climate action through a lens of environmental justice and just transitions developed by sociologists and others. The classification system includes major institutional and noninstitutional forms of climate action. By identifying the primary forms of climate action, analysts, scholars, policymakers, and activists can better determine levels of success and how different forms of climate action may or may not complement one another in the search for equitable solutions in turning back the rapid heating of the planet.

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Translating and embedding equity-thinking into climate adaptation: an analysis of US cities

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Cities increasingly recognize the importance of furthering social equity in their climate adaptation planning. Such efforts are often in response to grassroots mobilizations, yet it is not clear to what extent they translate into urban coalitions, policy designs, and implementation efforts within city governments. In this paper, we respond to this knowledge gap by assessing how equity-thinking is translated into cities’ adaptation decision-making and governance arrangements, especially in ways that can lead to more inclusive and just climate adaptation outcomes for historically marginalized communities. We analyze adaptation plans for the 25 largest US cities using deductive and inductive coding strategies to uncover the ideas, rhetoric, and processes that guide equitable plans. We then map these outcomes of equity-thinking across procedural, distributive, and recognitional categories. Our analysis lends support to the operation of two social constructivist mechanisms of equity-thinking in adaptation planning—namely ideology and recognition. In an ideology-driven pathway, where beliefs are shared, adaptation efforts are mobilized through local actors and within public agencies who decide on the appropriateness of social equity definitions. Recognition-driven pathways occur when climate equity rhetoric is reflected and normalized through adaptation planning procedures, where cities strive to be early adopters of equitable climate strategies. This result therefore highlights the multiple ways urban leaders, decision-makers, and planners can have in steering policies and designing different planning and implementation processes.

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Missing the Housing for the Trees: Equity in Urban Climate Planning

Cited by 16 publications

References 65 publications

Closing the equity deficit: Sustainability justice in municipal climate action planning in Waterloo region

Closing the equity deficit: Sustainability justice in municipal climate action planning in Waterloo region

The forms of climate action

Translating and embedding equity-thinking into climate adaptation: an analysis of US cities

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