Publications

2021

Rail-to-park transformations in 21st century modern cities: Green gentrification on track (Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space)

Adapting the environmental risk transition theory for urban health inequities: An observational study examining complex environmental riskscapes in seven neighborhoods in Global North cities (Social Science & Medicine)

Policy and Planning Tools for Urban Green Justice (ICLEI + BCNUEJ)

Breaking Down and Building Up: Gentrification, Its drivers, and Urban Health Inequality (Built Environment and Health)

Three Histories of Greening and Whiteness in American Cities (Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)

The governance of nature-based solutions in the city at the intersection of justice and equity (Cities)

The European Green Deal as catalyst for climate justice in cities (CIDOB)

Community gardening in Hellinikon as a resistance struggle against neoliberal urbanism: spatial autogestion and the right to the city in post-crisis Athens, Greece (Urban Geography)

School greening: Right or privilege? Examining urban nature within and around primary schools through an equity lens (Landscape and Urban Planning)

2019

Under one canopy? Assessing the distributional environmental justice implications of street tree benefits in Barcelona (Environmental Science & Policy)

Opinion: Why green “climate gentrification” threatens poor and vulnerable populations (PNAS)

Urban green boosterism and city affordability: For whom is the ‘branded’ green city? (Urban Studies)

Pushing regional studies beyond its borders (Regional Studies)

Grabbed Urban Landscapes: Socio‐spatial Tensions in Green Infrastructure Planning in Medellín (International Journal of Urban and Regional Research) PDF

Determining the health benefits of green space: Does gentrification matter? ( Health & Place)

2018

Green Trajectories: A GreenLULLUs policy book (2018)

New scholarly pathways on green gentrification: What does the urban ‘green turn’ mean and where is it going? (Progress in Human Geography, 2018)

From landscapes of utopia to the margins of the green urban life: For whom is the new green city? (CITY, 2018) PDF

Urban Planning, community (re)development, and environmental justice. In R. Hollifield, G. Walker, and J. Chakraborty. Handbook of Environmental Justice. (Routledge, 2018)

From critical climate adaptation to green resilience gentrification and new social-ecological riskscapes (IFoU 2018: Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience, 2018)

From Jacobs to the Just City: A foundation for challenging the green planning orthodoxy (Cities The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, 2018)

Mapping the intangible: Using geolocated social media data to examine landscape aesthetics (Land Use Policy, 2018)

From Systems Thinking to Systemic Action: Social Vulnerability and the Institutional Challenge of Urban Resilience (City & Community, 2018)

2020

“Everyone wants this market to grow”: The affective post-politics of municipal green bonds (Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space)

Growing Farming Heroes? Politics of Imaginaries within Farmer Training Programs in California (Annals of the American Association of Geographers)

Defining pathways to healthy sustainable urban development (Environment International)

Young families and children in gentrifying neighbourhoods: how gentrification reshapes use and perception of green play spaces (Local Environment)

Whose city? Whose nature? Towards inclusive nature-based solution governance (Cities)

Advancing the green infrastructure approach in the Province of Barcelona: integrating biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services into landscape planning (Urban Forestry & Urban Greening)

Clashing temporalities of care and support as key determinants of transformatory and justice potentials in urban gardens (Cities)

The COVID-19 pandemic: power and privilege, gentrification, and urban environmental justice in the global north (Cities & Health)

Hidden drivers of social injustice: Uncovering unequal cultural ecosystem services behind green gentrification (Environmental Science & Policy)

A call to engage: Considering the role of gentrification in public health research (Cities & Health)

Expanding the Boundaries of Justice in Urban Greening Scholarship: Toward an Emancipatory, Antisubordination, Intersectional, and Relational Approach (Annals of the American Association of Geographers)

Weaving notions of justice into urban ecosystem services research and practice (Environmental Science & Policy)

Understanding climate gentrification and shifting landscapes of protection and vulnerability in green resilient Philadelphia (Urban Climate)

2017

A ‘fertile soil’ for sustainability-related community initiatives: A new analytical framework (Environment and Planning A, 2017)

Power and privilege in alternative civic practices: Examining imaginaries of change and embedded rationalities in community economies (Geoforum, 2017)

Greening cities – To be socially inclusive? About the alleged paradox of society and ecology in cities (Habitat Int., 2017)

Assessing Green Gentrification in Historically Disenfranchised Neighborhoods: A longitudinal and spatial analysis of Barcelona (Urban Geography, 2017)

When we cannot have it all: Ecosystem services trade-offs in the context of spatial planning (Ecosyst. Serv., 2017)

Assessing the Potential of Regulating Ecosystem Services as Nature-Based Solutions in Urban Areas, in: Kabisch, N., Korn, H., Stadler, J., Bonn, A. (Eds.), Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Areas: Linkages between Science, Policy and Practice. (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2017)

Climate adaptation as strategic urbanism: assessing opportunities and uncertainties for equity and inclusive development in cities (Cities, 2017)

Power and privilege in alternative civic practices: Examining imaginaries of change and embedded rationalities in community economies (Geoforum, 2017)

Biopolitics gone to shit? State narratives versus everyday realities of water and sanitation in the Mekong Delta. (World Development, 2017)

Tracing narratives and perceptions in the political ecologies of health and disease (Journal of Political Ecology, 2017)

Beyond “Socially Constructed” Disasters: Re-politicizing the Debate on Large Dams through a Political Ecology of Risk (Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 2017)

Health dispossessions and the moralization of disease: the case of diarrhea in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam (Journal of Political Ecology, 2017)

2016

Healthy Food Stores, Greenlining and Food Gentrification: Contesting New Forms of Privilege, Displacement and Locally Unwanted Land Uses in Racially Mixed Neighborhoods (IJURR, Volume 39, Issue 6, November 2016 )

Contesting and resisting environmental gentrification: Responses to new challenges and paradoxes for urban environmental justice (Sociological Research Online, 2016 )

Equity Impacts of Urban Land Use Planning for Climate Adaptation. Critical Perspectives from the Global North and South (Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2016)

The urban political ecology of ecosystem services: The case of Barcelona (Ecol. Econ., 2016)

Climate change, happiness and income from a degrowth perspective, Handbook on Growth and Sustainability (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016)

When exposure to climate change is not enough: Exploring the adaptive capacity to heatwaves of a multiethnic, low-income urban community in Australia (Urban Climate, 2016)

Towards critical studies of climate adaptation planning: Uncovering the equity impacts of urban land use planning (Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2016)

Towards justice in urban climate adaptation: A roadmap for research (Nature Climate Change, 2016)

Inclusive approaches to urban climate adaptation planning and implementation in the global South (Climate Policy, 2016)