Home>Presentation of the book ‘The Green City and Social Injustice. 21 Tales from North America and Europe’ with Isabelle Anguelovski, ICREA Research Professor and Director of the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability
05.04.2022
Presentation of the book ‘The Green City and Social Injustice. 21 Tales from North America and Europe’ with Isabelle Anguelovski, ICREA Research Professor and Director of the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability
About this event
05 April 2022 from 17:30 until 19:15
SEMINAR CITIES
Sciences Po, exclusively on Zoom (you will receive the link of this seminar after your registration), Compulsory Registration
The Green City and Social Injustice examines the recent urban environmental trajectory of 21 cities in Europe and North America over a 20-year period. It analyses the circumstances under which greening interventions can create a new set of inequalities for socially vulnerable residents while also failing to eliminate other environmental risks and impacts.
Speaker
Isabelle Anguelovski is the director of the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ), an ICREA Research Professor, a Senior Researcher and Principal Investigator at ICTA and former coordinator of the research group Healthy Cities and Environmental Justice at IMIM. She obtained a PhD in Urban Studies and Planning from MIT before returning to Europe in 2011 with a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship. Her research examines the extent to which urban plans and policy decisions contribute to more just, resilient, healthy, and sustainable cities, and how community groups in distressed neighborhoods contest the existence, creation, or exacerbation of environmental inequities as a result of urban (re)development processes and policies. Since 2016, she is the PI of a five-year ERC-funded project called GreenLULUs which examines green inequalities in 40 cities in Europe, the US, and Canada. She is the research group coordinator and co-leader of the research lines "Environmental and Climate Gentrification" and "Urban Climate Risk, Infrastructures, and Justice" at BCNUEJ.Discussion
Joost de Moor, Assistant Professor in Political Science, Sciences Po, CEE