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Environmental Justice, Community-Engaged Planning, and Urban Sustainability

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 10743

Special Issue Editor

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Robin Saha

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Environmental Studies, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA
Interests: environmental justice; urban sustainability; urban governance; urban planning; community engagement; public participation; citizen involvement; community empowerment

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue brings together current scholarship on environmental justice, urban planning, and sustainable development through an examination of the challenges of and approaches to transitioning to sustainable cities in just and equitable ways. Just transition of urban systems requires incorporation of equity considerations into land use planning and public infrastructure decision making. However, all too often, sustainability initiatives replicate or exacerbate spatial and social patterns of inequality in the distribution of environmental hazards and amenities. This Special Issue problematizes the question of how urban environmental planning and governance can be structured and carried out to produce fair and equitable outcomes. Contributors are invited to share research on innovative approaches to community engagement, such as equity planning, community-based participatory research (CBPR), community dialogues, sustainability policy, advocacy/activism, funding mechanisms, public–private partnerships and community capacity building that help promote inclusion, power- and benefit-sharing, and environmental and social justice. Manuscripts are sought that incorporate aspects of procedural justice, i.e., meaningful community involvement, as related to gentrification, sustainable transportation, waste management/zero waste, pollution prevention/risk reduction, clean production, green infrastructure, green buildings, zoning, affordable housing, urban agriculture, renewable energy, climate resilience, emergency preparedness/response, and other aspects of just urban planning and sustainability. Papers related to evaluation of participatory processes and measurement of equity goal achievement are welcome as are those that examine just and sustainable integration of urban socioecological systems.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Robin Saha
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • environmental justice
  • urban social sustainability
  • equity planning
  • procedural justice
  • community engagement
  • urban governance
  • public participation
  • citizen involvement
  • green infrastructure
  • climate resilience
  • social–ecological systems

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Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Point Distribution Pattern of Schools Using Spatial Autocorrelation Indices in Bojnourd City
by Mostafa Ghodousi, Abolghasem Sadeghi-Niaraki, Farzaneh Rabiee and Soo-Mi Choi
Sustainability 2020, 12(18), 7755; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12187755 - 19 Sep 2020
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In recent years, attention has been given to the construction and development of new educational centers, but their spatial distribution across the cities has received less attention. In this study, the Average Nearest Neighbor (ANN) and the optimized hot spot analysis methods have [...] Read more.
In recent years, attention has been given to the construction and development of new educational centers, but their spatial distribution across the cities has received less attention. In this study, the Average Nearest Neighbor (ANN) and the optimized hot spot analysis methods have been used to determine the general spatial distribution of the schools. Also, in order to investigate the spatial distribution of the schools based on the substructure variables, which include the school building area, the results of the general and local Moran and Getis Ord analyses have been investigated. A differential Moran index was also used to study the spatial-temporal variations of the schools’ distribution patterns based on the net per capita variable, which is the amount of school building area per student. The results of the Average Nearest Neighbor (ANN) analysis indicated that the general spatial patterns of the primary schools, the first high schools, and the secondary high schools in the years 2011, 2016, 2018, and 2021 are clustered. Applying the optimized hot spot analysis method also identified the southern areas and the suburbs as cold polygons with less-density. Also, the results of the differential Moran analysis showed the positive trend of the net per capita changes for the primary schools and first high schools. However, the result is different for the secondary high schools. Full article
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From Progressive Property to Progressive Cities: Can Socially Sustainable Interpretations of Property Contribute toward Just and Inclusive City-Planning? Global Lessons
by Nir Mualam and Debora Sotto
Sustainability 2020, 12(11), 4472; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12114472 - 1 Jun 2020
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This paper explores if and how the idea of progressive property can help to shape more inclusive, sustainable, and just cities around the globe. While quite nuanced, at its heart the progressive perspective on property considers property as a means of addressing important [...] Read more.
This paper explores if and how the idea of progressive property can help to shape more inclusive, sustainable, and just cities around the globe. While quite nuanced, at its heart the progressive perspective on property considers property as a means of addressing important human needs. It is consistent with reciprocal and communitarian approaches to property rights. Nowhere are these insights more relevant or needed than in cities—dense urban areas where legacies of exclusion have deprived disadvantaged groups of housing and public services. In cities and neighboring suburbs, the right to exclude collides head-on with the need to share limited space with those of little means. By re-examining the work of progressive property scholars, we suggest concrete ways of reconceptualizing access to the city. This paper ties legal theory to housing and city-planning by proposing an international perspective to progressive property scholarship, with a focus on local government policies pertaining to housing. We do so by comparatively examining case studies from the United States (US), Spain, Brazil, and Israel—four countries that are actively experimenting with progressive definitions of property in a manner which affects urban planning and housing in cities. Full article
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Possibilities for the Development of Building Plots with an Unfavorable Structure in the Context of Spatial Justice: A Case Study of Poland
by Anna Bielska, Agnieszka Wendland and Maciej Delnicki
Sustainability 2020, 12(6), 2472; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12062472 - 21 Mar 2020
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To balance interests among local communities and increase awareness of the need to protect the environment, landscape and spatial order, there is a need for active participation, cooperation and mutual learning of participants in the planning process, including urban planners, specialists from other [...] Read more.
To balance interests among local communities and increase awareness of the need to protect the environment, landscape and spatial order, there is a need for active participation, cooperation and mutual learning of participants in the planning process, including urban planners, specialists from other disciplines (among others, ecologists, landscape architects and surveyors), local authorities and residents. This article presents the problems associated with housing development in suburban areas within the context of rules for sustainable development, and spatial and social justice. It presents an assessment of the spatial configuration of plots and the possibilities for development and management of these in the selected communes located in suburban area of Warsaw, the capital city of Poland. A methodology was developed for the preparation of planning documents in the commune, allowing the minimization of the problem of spatial injustice resulting from the flawed structure of registered plots. Full article
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