As an urban scholar or PhD student, it’s hard to keep track of all the scientific publications relating to our topic and making sure we know which are the most relevant. Even though every publication has knowledge to offer, we felt it would be useful to select our most important publications in the last year, and in a way that represents the scope of our work and our team of researchers.
Here is a roundup of our Top 10 publications in the last year:
1. Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants
This study illustrates how differences in decision-making positions can impact perceptions of ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying cities. The researchers call for the recognition of the wider benefits but also social, economic, physical and psychological negative effects of new green space projects to ensure designing healthy green just cities.
Authors: Rodgam MK, Anguelovski I, Pérez-del-Pulgar C, Shokry G, Garcia-Lamarca M, Connolly JJT, Baró F*, Triguero-Mas* M.
Journal: Ecosystem Services
2. Justice must be at the center of assessments of climate change impacts on human health
Climate change does not impact populations equally. As such, assessing climate change impacts must consider the historical injustices that affect the differential positions of people in relation to health risks at both global and local levels.
Authors: Kotsila, P. & Anguelovski, I.
Journal: Lancet Public Health
3. Greening plans as (re)presentation of the city: Toward an inclusive and gender-sensitive approach to urban greenspaces
Despite gaining increasing relevance in recent years, gender inequities have been a specific dimension particularly overlooked in urban greening planning. This study examines the extent to which social and gender equity are being considered in urban greening plans and projects at the local level in Barcelona.
Authors: Calderón-Argelich, A., Anguelovski, I., Connolly, J. J. T., & Baró, F.
Journal: Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
4. Promoting Health Equity Through Preventing or Mitigating the Effects of Gentrification: A Theoretical and Methodological Guide
This study looks at how research can better assess how gentrification affect health, considering the conceptualization of gentrification in measurement techniques and conceiving this process as a direct exposure or as a part of broader neighborhood changes. Policy approaches to mitigating and preventing gentrification should be evaluated for effectiveness.
Authors: Cole HVS, Anguelovski I, Medihpanah R, Triguero-Mas M, Arcaya M.
Journal: Annual Review of Public Health
5. From the squat to the neighbourhood: Popular infrastructures as reproductive urban commons
This paper stresses the need to look beyond housing when conceptualising housing commons, considering the articulation of particular commons within neighbourhood (and beyond) networks of support, in order to understand their emancipatory potential and their reproductive role in wider commons ecologies.
Authors: Ruiz Cayuela, S. & García-Lamarca, M.
Journal: Geoforum
6. A Space of Possibilities: Situated Research with/from La Casa dels Futurs
Researchers advocated for the creation of a physical location for a climate justice centre in Barcelona to further researcher-activist engagement and the cultivate social solutions which address the root causes of climate change, although this type of engagement can absolutely be fruitful in various fields and social movements.
Authors: Matheney, A., Garcia-Lamarca, M., Calderón-Argelich, A., Alfandari, N., & Papillon, D.
Journal: Antipode
7. The right to the unhealthy deprived city: An exploration into the impacts of state-led redevelopment projects on the determinants of mental health
In post-industrial Glasgow, state-led redevelopment/regeneration projects aiming to improve social-environmental conditions often trigger gentrification, resulting in new spatial and socioeconomic inequalities that may worsen health outcomes, including mental health, for long-term neighborhood residents.
Authors: O’Neill E., Cole, H. V., García-Lamarca, M., Anguelovski, I., Gullón, P., & Triguero-Mas, M.
Journal: Social science & medicine
8. Exploring Ownership of Change and Health Equity Implications in Neighborhood Change Processes: A Community-Led Approach to Enhancing Just Climate Resilience in Everett, MA
To prevent climate gentrification and build true resilience, neighborhoods must feel ownership of their identity, knowledge and development. Using a Partcipatory Action Research approach, this study found that integration of ownership of change fosters a sense of belonging and enhances mental security, thereby strengthening social and climate resilience for improved mental health.
Authors: Breton-Carbonneau, A., Anguelovski, I., O’Brien, K., Echevarría-Ramos, M., Fina, N., Genty, J., Seeder, A., Binet, A., Williams, P., Cole, H., & Triguero-Mas, M.
Journal: Health & Place
9. The multi-scalar inequities of climate adaptation finance: A critical review
Climate vulnerability is not a primary determinant in the accessibility and allocation of financial resources for the implementation of climate adaptation actions. Finance does not trickle down, but “ripples” within a climate finance arena. Entangled in complex power asymmetries that ripple into multi-scalar inequities, it favours relatively resilient groups across scales with less support for more vulnerable populations.
Authors: Venner, K., García-Lamarca, M., & Olazabal, M.
Journal: Current Climate Change Reports
10. Equity concerns in transformative planning: Barcelona’s Superblocks under scrutiny
While the original Superblock idea envisioned a sea of high-quality protected public spaces traversed by selected traffic arteries, the implementation struggles and controversy around the project has also produced privileged green and protected axes that must be scrutinized in order to ensure environmental improvements that uphold social justice.
Authors: Anguelovski, I., Honey-Rosés, J., & Marquet, O.
Journal: Cities & Health
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