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A study on the effectiveness of gender inclusivity in urban greening in Barcelona
Executive summary by Amalia Calderón Argelich
This policy brief, based on the article Greening plans as (re)presentation of the city: Toward an inclusive and gender-sensitive approach to urban greenspaces aims to inform political authorities and urban professionals in the Barcelona area about the results of the research conducted within the framework of the author’s doctoral thesis.
The analysis focused on how Barcelona’s green policies, in an international context, take into account social and gender justice. Despite the increasingly widespread adoption of green strategic plans to address both social and environmental issues, our analysis reveals that these plans often consider justice in a superficial and narrow manner, which implies a risk of perpetuating existing social and gender inequalities within green spaces.