How should urban climate change planning advance social justice?
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Pratt, Bridget. (2023). How should urban climate change planning advance social justice? Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. 33(1), pp. 55-89. https://doi.org/10.1353/ken.2023.a899459
Authors | Pratt, Bridget |
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Abstract | Cities are struggling to balance the moral imperatives of sustainable development, with equity and social justice often ignored and negatively impacted by climate change mitigation and adaptation. Yet, the nature of these impacts on social justice has not been comprehensively investigated and little ethical guidance exists on how to better promote social justice in urban climate change planning practice. This article addresses the normative question: How should urban climate change planning advance social justice? It gathers empirical literature documenting the inclusivity and equity impacts of urban climate change planning and thematically analyses that literature for dimensions of social justice drawn from philosophical and urban justice theory. Study findings demonstrate that four characteristics of climate change planning in cities—underlying neoliberal ideology, unequal treatment, green gentrification, and exclusion from decision making—comprise, create, or worsen social injustices across six dimensions. These characteristics are often interconnected and inseparable. Where neoliberal ideology guides urban climate change planning, the other three characteristics frequently occur as well. The article concludes by arguing that, at a minimum, urban planners and climate planners have an obligation of justice to avoid undertaking climate change planning that exhibits any of the four characteristics and to address injustices generated where planning has such characteristics. It further suggests that planners’ negative obligations likely extend beyond this because the literature review revealed gaps in existing empirical data on the equity impacts of urban climate change planning. |
Keywords | urban planning; ethics; social justice; equity; climate change; sustainable development |
Year | 01 Jan 2023 |
Journal | Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal |
Journal citation | 33 (1), pp. 55-89 |
Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
ISSN | 1054-6863 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1353/ken.2023.a899459 |
Web address (URL) | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/899459 |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 55-89 |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | Mar 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 05 Jul 2024 |
Supplemental file | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Additional information | © 2023 by Johns Hopkins University Press |
Place of publication | United States |
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