Essays about: "Urban environmental justice"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 44 essays containing the words Urban environmental justice.

1. 1. Greening for All - A Path towards social justice in green urban planning : A combined qualitative interview study and text analysis with a focus on the municipality of Jönköping

   University essay from Jönköping University/HLK, Globala studier

   Author : Linnéa Blomqvist; Cecilia Höglund; [2023]
   Keywords : Green areas; green structure; accessibility; densification; social justice; environmental justice; Jönköping municipality; Agenda 2030; climate changes; Grönområden; grönstruktur; tillgänglighet; förtätning; social rättvisa; miljörättvisa; Jönköpings kommun; Agenda 2030; klimatförändringar;

   Abstract : Maintaining and achieving a sustainable city is today a challenge, specifically as urbanisation and climate change continue to increase. Green cities are an opportunity to achieve a sustainable society. READ MORE

3. 2. Embodying the transformation: An exploration of the role of art-based approaches in achieving a just and sustainable city through citizen participation in Malmö

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

   Author : Rabea Sorka Sophie Tzschabran; [2023]
   Keywords : sustainability science; creative placemaking; experiential learning; inner transformation; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The exposure of societies to climate change requires cities to adequately respond to increasing environmental pressures while ensuring the well-being of citizens. Here, sustainable urban planning is an important tool. READ MORE

4. 3. Community awareness regarding the páramos: an exploratory study on Colombian eco-social organizations

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för socialt arbete och kriminologi

   Author : Mariana Caviativa Rojas; Marie Karunaratne Chathurika; [2023]
   Keywords : Rural and urban communities; eco-social work; environmental justice framework; eco-social approach; eco-social organizations; páramos; Colombia.;

   Abstract : This qualitative study explores how eco-social organizations in Colombia work with the communities to protect the páramos, and the issues affecting the páramos. Workers, volunteers, and advisors of the organizations were interviewed to examine the issues affecting the páramos and how they work with the communities to protect this ecosystem. READ MORE

5. 4. Compounding the Problem? : Gated Communities in Climate and Environmental Disaster Fiction

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Author : Ryan Nicholas Walsh; [2023]
   Keywords : Octavia E. Butler; The Parable of the Sower; The Parable of the Talents; Naughty Dog; The Last of Us; The Last of Us: Part II; Neil Blomkamp; Elysium; ecocriticism; post-apocalypse; critical dystopia; climate change criticism; gated community; urban studies; agency; the Other; video game studies; ergodic literature.; Octavia E. Butler; The Parable of the Sower; The Parable of the Talents; Naughty Dog; The Last of Us; The Last of Us: Part II; Neil Blomkamp; Elysium; ekokritik; postapokalyps; kritisk dystopi; klimatfiktion; grindsamhällen; urbana studier; agens; det Andra; spelforskning; ergodisk litteratur.;

   Abstract : The gated community motif occurs frequently within climate and environmental disaster fiction. This thesis investigates its occurrence across three media to establish how the gated community mode of living, as rendered in post-apocalyptic speculative fiction, responds to the threat and consequences of climate and environmental crisis. READ MORE

6. 5. Urban Forests and Environmental Justice. Insights from Padua and Turin

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

   Author : Nicolò Zagato; [2022]
   Keywords : Urban Forests; Environmental Justice; Governance; Italy; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : Cities around the world are employing strategies to become greener and more sustainable, and urban forests can play a major role in providing environmental benefits. However, it has been found that in many cities those benefits are not equally experienced by citizens, highlighting the importance of examining environmental justice. READ MORE