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Environmental gentrification
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Checker, Melissa |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Description | This essay offers a critical examination of urban sustainability and the degree to which it intersects with considerations of environmental inequities and social justice. Based on my participatory, ethnographic research with environmental justice activists in New York City, I find that sustainable initiatives often accompanied high-end redevelopment, a process known as environmental gentrification. I argue that this process threatened to displace long-term, low-income renters and owners and to co-opt the efforts of environmental justice activists. In addition, it concentrated environmental burdens in non-gentrifying neighborhoods. I conclude by suggesting that more holistic policies and practices will create a city that is both sustainable and just.This chapter offers a critical examination of urban sustainability and the degree to which it intersects with considerations of environmental inequities and social justice. It argues that environmental gentrification threatened to displace long-term, low-income renters and owners and to co-opt the efforts of environmental justice activists. The chapter focuses on environmental burdens in non-gentrifying neighborhoods. It suggests that more holistic policies and practices will create a city that is both sustainable and just. The chapter explores how a sustainability agenda intersected with environmental injustice, or the disproportionate siting of hazardous waste sites in people of color neighborhoods. Mayor Michael Bloomberg got a slow start on the sustainable city race, lagging behind metropolitan competitors like London and Paris. The chapter also explores how local citizens challenge the uneven dynamics, every day in multiple ways. It presents a service learning project in which students created an environmental justice profile of the North Shore. Book Name: The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2015-0-60460-6&isbn=9781315647098&format=googlePreviewPdf |
| Ending Page | 213 |
| Page Count | 15 |
| Starting Page | 199 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315647098-14 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2018-10-03 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City Cultural Studies Social Justice Low Income Urban Sustainability Environmental Burdens Critical Examination Gentrifying Neighborhoods Environmental Inequities Income Renters Displace Long |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
