Planning Ecologically Just Cities: A Framework to Assess Ecological Injustice Hotspots for Targeted Urban Design and Planning of Nature-Based Solutions

ABSTRACT

This paper presents a typology of ecological injustice hotspots for targeted design of nature-based solutions to guide planning and designing of just cities. The typology demonstrates how the needs and capabilities of nonhuman nature can be embedded within transitions to multi- and interspecies relational futures that regenerate and protect urban social-ecological systems. We synthesise the findings of previous quantitative and qualitative analyses to develop the Ecologically Just Cities Framework that (1) works as a diagnostic tool to characterise four types of urban ecological injustices and (2) identifies nature-based planning actions that can best respond to different types of place-based ecological injustices.

摘要

本文提出了一个生态不公正热点的类型学，用于有针对性地设计基于自然的解决方案，以指导公正城市的规划和设计。该类型学展示了非人类自然的需求和能力如何能够被嵌入到向多物种和跨物种关系的未来过渡中，从而再生和保护城市社会生态系统。我们综合了之前的定量和定性分析结果，制定了生态公正的城市框架，(1) 作为诊断工具来描述四种类型的城市生态不公正；(2) 确定了基于自然的规划行动，可以最好地应对不同类型的地方生态不公正问题。

KEYWORDS:

• Nature-based solutions
• ecological justice
• social-ecological-technological systems
• cities
• urban
• conceptual framework
• science

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was supported by NordForsk [SMARTer Greener Cities]; US National Science Foundation [grant number 1444755,1927167,1934933].