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Amber Grant, Sara Edge, Andrew A. Millward

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Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(12), P. 4915 - 4915

Published: June 7, 2024

Cities worldwide are grappling with complex urban environmental injustices. While justice as a concept has gained prominence in both academia and policy, operationalizing implementing principles norms remains underexplored. Notably, less attention been given to centering the perspectives experiences of community-based actors operating at grassroots level, who can inform strengthen practice. Through ethnographic, participant-as-observer methods, interviews, geovisualizations, this study explores perspectives, experiences, knowledge, practices forest stewards Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States) invested addressing injustices through tree-planting stewardship. Interviewees were asked how they issues distribution, procedure, recognition planning practice, well socio-political institutional factors that have influenced their practices. Particular is implement recognitional principles. Findings from exposed several challenges affecting steward engagement community-led tree initiatives broader pursuit justice, including discriminatory practices, gentrification concerns, underrepresentation Black Latinx voices decision-making, volunteer-based models, life cycle costs. Nevertheless, remain dedicated collective community-building address stress importance recognizing, listening to, dialoguing with, validating neighbors essential process.

Language: Английский

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Published: May 3, 2025

Language: Английский

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Centering Community Perspectives to Advance Recognitional Justice for Sustainable Cities: Lessons from Urban Forest Practice DOI Open Access
Amber Grant, Sara Edge, Andrew A. Millward

et al.

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(12), P. 4915 - 4915

Published: June 7, 2024

Cities worldwide are grappling with complex urban environmental injustices. While justice as a concept has gained prominence in both academia and policy, operationalizing implementing principles norms remains underexplored. Notably, less attention been given to centering the perspectives experiences of community-based actors operating at grassroots level, who can inform strengthen practice. Through ethnographic, participant-as-observer methods, interviews, geovisualizations, this study explores perspectives, experiences, knowledge, practices forest stewards Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States) invested addressing injustices through tree-planting stewardship. Interviewees were asked how they issues distribution, procedure, recognition planning practice, well socio-political institutional factors that have influenced their practices. Particular is implement recognitional principles. Findings from exposed several challenges affecting steward engagement community-led tree initiatives broader pursuit justice, including discriminatory practices, gentrification concerns, underrepresentation Black Latinx voices decision-making, volunteer-based models, life cycle costs. Nevertheless, remain dedicated collective community-building address stress importance recognizing, listening to, dialoguing with, validating neighbors essential process.

Language: Английский

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