ClimateJusticeReady

Descripción del proyecto

Una herramienta para prevenir la gentrificación climática

Las ciudades del norte global están adoptando infraestructuras verdes para hacer frente a los riesgos climáticos, pero crece la preocupación por el desplazamiento de residentes con rentas más bajas y pertenecientes a minorías, un fenómeno conocido como «gentrificación climática verde». A pesar de que se reconoce como un problema, pocas iniciativas incorporan disposiciones sociales, lo cual deja a los residentes en una situación de vulnerabilidad. El equipo del proyecto ClimateJusticeReady, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, analizará las repercusiones en la equidad social de las intervenciones de resiliencia climática, centrándose en la predicción, cartografía y prevención de la gentrificación climática. Además, servirá de apoyo a políticas y herramientas de planificación viables para lograr una mayor justicia climática urbana. El proyecto ClimateJusticeReady se aplicará en colaboración con Barcelona y Boston, apoyando sus iniciativas por conseguir ciudades verdes justas y equitativas.

Objetivo

Cities in the Global North are increasingly adopting nature-centered and other green infrastructure interventions to respond to climate risks and impacts and enhance their adaptation and resilience capacity. Yet, plans for such green infrastructure (GI) and other urban greening interventions tend to underestimate risks of displacement for lower-income and minority residents – what myself and others have previously called green climate gentrification. Despite increasing recognition of this process and concerns for the displaced, few municipal green interventions are coupled with social provisions (such as social housing; resident-driven economic development schemes) to protect residents from displacement. Yet, predicting and preventing green gentrification is the only way to build a green resilience agenda that upholds the stated social and environmental goals of such plans and avoid green paradoxes born out of urban renaturing projects and which municipalities have expressed commitment to avoid.
In this POC, I propose to further analyze the social equity impacts of climate adaptation and green resilience efforts and build on my GreenLULUs ERC in order to (a) create a replicable, interactive community- and policy-driven predictor index, tool, and analysis for green gentrification in the context of planned green climate-centered infrastructure and (b) test the early development of an actionable, pilot municipal policy and planning instrument, such as a climate-adaptation focused community land trust, a municipal green bond program for equitable climate resilience, a community-based stewardship fund, or green minority-owned green business seed grants (among others) to prevent green climate gentrification. These tasks will be decided and built in partnership with municipal governments and community groups based on pilot cities included in my finishing ERC project – Barcelona and Boston – so that this POC can support them in their work for more just green cities.