Challenging the financial capture of urban greening

Urban greening is critical for human health and climate adaptation and mitigation goals, but its financing tends to prioritize economic growth imperatives. This often results in elite value and rent capture and unjust greening outcomes. We argue that cities can, however, take action to ensure more s...

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Autores: García-Lamarca, Melissa|||0000-0002-4813-3633, Anguelovski, Isabelle|||0000-0002-6409-5155, Venner, Kayin|||0000-0003-0286-4884
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:269167
Acesso em linha:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/269167
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34942-x
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Sustainability
Climate-change policy
Climate-change adaptation
Climate-change mitigation
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Resumo:Urban greening is critical for human health and climate adaptation and mitigation goals, but its financing tends to prioritize economic growth imperatives. This often results in elite value and rent capture and unjust greening outcomes. We argue that cities can, however, take action to ensure more socially just impacts of green financing. Financing of urban greening has traditionally prioritized economic growth. Here the authors argue for action to ensure more socially just green financing.