Building just and livable cities: Participation and contestation in neighborhood revitalization

Projektinformationen

URBLIV

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 272763

Projekt abgeschlossen

Startdatum 15 Juni 2011

Enddatum 26 Juli 2013

Finanziert unter

• Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Gesamtkosten € 167 180,80

EU-Beitrag € 167 180,80

Koordiniert durch

UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA
Spain

Ziel

"Environmental justice (EJ) scholarship has revealed that communities of color and low-income neighborhoods have been disproportionally affected by 'brown' contaminating facilities and excluded from decision-making on their land. However, traditional EJ studies tend to overlook the fact that residents also fight proactively to achieve long-term equitable revitalization and improve the livability and environmental quality of their neighborhoods through parks, playgrounds, urban agriculture, fresh markets, and improved waste management. This project is built around a collaborative, comparative, and multidisciplinary study of three critical case studies of marginalized neighborhoods organizing for improved environmental and health quality in three cities – Barcelona, Boston, Havana. This research will further develop the nascent environmental justice scholarship in the European Research Area by focusing on how residents make proactive environmental and health claims, defend their vision for improved lasting neighborhood conditions, and address inequalities in environmental planning decisions in cities that encompass a variety of political systems and contexts of marginalization. It will also improve our understanding of how larger processes of urbanization, segregation, and land-use decisions have contributed to creating an identity in impoverished urban neighborhoods and later shaped mobilization. More broadly, this project will strengthen and broaden the fields of political ecology, urban sociology, and environmental governance in the European research community; it will create an international umbrella platform of expert scholars and NGOs working on achieving environmental justice and environmental governance in the United States and Europe; and it will contribute to the training of graduate students in environmental conflicts and environmental justice research, thus promoting scientific excellence and knowledge transfer to the European Research Area."

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• social sciences › sociology › governance
• social sciences › political sciences › political policies › civil society › nongovernmental organizations
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › waste management
• engineering and technology › materials engineering › colors
• agricultural sciences › agriculture, forestry, and fisheries › agriculture › horticulture › urban horticulture

Programm/Programme

• FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Thema/Themen

• FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF - Marie Curie Action: "International Incoming Fellowships"

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF
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Finanzierungsplan

MC-IIF - International Incoming Fellowships (IIF)

Koordinator

UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA

Kontakt Verwaltung

Queralt Gonzalez Matos (Ms.)

• EU-Beitrag: € 167 180,80
• Adresse: EDIF A CAMPUS DE LA UAB BELLATERRA CERDANYOLA V ; 08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles ; Spanien
• Region: Este › Cataluña › Barcelona
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: Keine Daten