TY - JOUR
T1 - Is urban greening for everyone? Social inclusion and exclusion along the Gowanus Canal
AU - Miller, Jessica Ty
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier GmbH
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - Focusing on the subthemes of how governance happens and processes of marginalization, this paper examines a case study in Gowanus, Brooklyn to explore inclusion and exclusion in urban environmental decision-making processes. This work gains support from theoretical considerations in urban political ecology and interdisciplinary research on green gentrification and how power differences and inequity impact civic involvement. The Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York became a Superfund site in 2010, after much debate between local, state, and federal government offices over how to pursue clean up. Private development, local and state initiatives are addressing the sewage and other contamination along the banks of the canal while the Superfund clean up in the waterway takes place. The area has become a site for enacting waterfront planning and economic development, green infrastructure creation, brownfield redevelopment, and other local and state green planning initiatives. Public forums on cleaning and greening Gowanus have engaged the community, and allowed space for discussing the possibilities for the future of the area. This paper will focus on interview responses in relation to the federal Environmental Protection Agency decision-making process.
AB - Focusing on the subthemes of how governance happens and processes of marginalization, this paper examines a case study in Gowanus, Brooklyn to explore inclusion and exclusion in urban environmental decision-making processes. This work gains support from theoretical considerations in urban political ecology and interdisciplinary research on green gentrification and how power differences and inequity impact civic involvement. The Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York became a Superfund site in 2010, after much debate between local, state, and federal government offices over how to pursue clean up. Private development, local and state initiatives are addressing the sewage and other contamination along the banks of the canal while the Superfund clean up in the waterway takes place. The area has become a site for enacting waterfront planning and economic development, green infrastructure creation, brownfield redevelopment, and other local and state green planning initiatives. Public forums on cleaning and greening Gowanus have engaged the community, and allowed space for discussing the possibilities for the future of the area. This paper will focus on interview responses in relation to the federal Environmental Protection Agency decision-making process.
KW - Civic engagement inequity
KW - Environmental gentrification
KW - Environmental perception
KW - Superfund
KW - Urban greening
KW - Urban political ecology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84962385381&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ufug.2016.03.004
DO - 10.1016/j.ufug.2016.03.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84962385381
SN - 1618-8667
VL - 19
SP - 285
EP - 294
JO - Urban Forestry and Urban Greening
JF - Urban Forestry and Urban Greening
ER -