BCNUEJ

A Barcelona-based research lab focused on urban environmental justice

What we do
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Curso Emergencia Climatica

8-9 Feb: Curso presencial Emergència Climàtica: Reptes i Propostes per a la Ciutat, en la Universitat Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP) a Barcelona

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BiodivERsA Prize

Our ENABLE Project wins the 5th edition of the BiodivERsA Prize for Excellence and Impact

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StoryMaps of Urban Justice Struggles

Visit our ArcGis StoryMaps, a critical mapping tool document environmental justice struggles in Barcelona

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New Book

Our new book The Green City and Social Injustice

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Toolkit for Urban Green Justice

Our new report provides planners and policymakers with 50 tools that fight displacement and green gentrification

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The Green Divide

Our ongoing interactive web documentary featuring urban justice stories in six cities

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To Green Or Not To Green

A short documentary on four struggles of urban injustice in Barcelona

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10 Drivers of Urban Injustice

A series of videos outlining the top 10 drivers of urban injustice with our partner project UrbanA

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We develop novel research on environmental justice and sustainability that builds on urban planning, policy, and studies in social inequality and development.

 

Research Areas

Sustainability

Critically assessing the motivations of urban sustainability intiatives and their effects, such as green gentrification.

Health & Equity

Analyzing the patterns and causes of health inequality embedded in urbanization processes.

Global Environments

Identifying how economic and political forces on a global scale shape urban environmental outcomes at a local level.

New Methodologies

Developing the next generation of spatial analytic tools for analyzing urban environmental justice.

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Our Latest Publications / See all

  • Collectively organized endurance through space and time to transform debt relations

  • Intersectional climate justice:

    A conceptual pathway for bridging adaptation planning, transformative action, and social equity

  • Urban green grabbing:

    Residential real estate developers discourse and practice in gentrifying Global North neighborhoods

  • Nature-based Solutions as Nodes of Green-Blue Infrastructure Networks:

    A Cross-scale, Co-creation Approach for Prioritization in the Barcelona Region

  • Gentrification pathways and their health impacts on historically marginalized residents in Europe and North America:

    Global qualitative evidence from 14 cities

  • Assessing the learning process in transdisciplinary research through a novel analytical approach

  • Healthy cities after COVID-19 pandemic: the just ecofeminist healthy cities approach

  • Decolonizing the Green City: From Environmental Privilege to Emancipatory Green Justice

  • A take-home message from COVID-19 on urban air pollution reduction through mobility limitations and teleworking

  • Sociodemographic determinants of intraurban variations in COVID-19 incidence: the case of Barcelona

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The latest from our lab on COVID-19 / See all

  • Healthy cities after COVID-19 pandemic: the just ecofeminist healthy cities approach

  • A take-home message from COVID-19 on urban air pollution reduction through mobility limitations and teleworking

  • Sociodemographic determinants of intraurban variations in COVID-19 incidence: the case of Barcelona

Projects

  • GROUT

  • Climate Refuges

  • FEMPUBLICBCN

  • Dones Jardins

  • WEGO-ITN

    WEGO-ITN

  • UrbanA

    UrbanA

  • TESS

    TESS

  • GreenLULUs

    GreenLULUs

  • Naturvation

    Naturvation

  • Enable

    Enable

Recent Posts / View All Posts

Visualizing the Green Paradox through Critical Mapping

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A new series of ArcGIS StoryMaps collections expose the adverse impacts of urban greening interventions and their connection to gentrification, while highlighting community struggles for equitable access to green space…

Feminist Survey Research in Public Space: It’s Complicated

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What complexities and reflections arise when surveying women, non-binary and trans people in public space? Our research intern Sarah Bretschko provides insights from her fieldwork for our  FEMPUBLICBCN research project, which…

Un proyecto de mapeo crítico para la justicia urbana en Barcelona

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A través de nuevas herramientas científicas, la investigación en urbanismo debe respaldar las luchas vecinales en temas de la vivienda asequible, acceso equitativo a espacios verdes, y protección del patrimonio…

Book launch! The Green City and Social Injustice

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Watch this recent Cities@Tufts webinar, where Isabelle Anguelovski and James Connolly  discuss our forthcoming book with Julian Agyeman. BCNUEJ is excited to announce the launch of its new book, The…

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