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BCNUEJ is featured in a range of local and global media outlets. Here’s a selection.

Unequal access to cultural ecosystem services of green spaces within the city of Rome

A spatial social media-based analysis

Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods

Contrasting views between community members and state informants

A guide to creating inclusive and effective climate shelters

Redefining success in organizing towards degrowth

Life Satisfaction and Socio-Economic Vulnerability:

Evidence from the Basic Income Experiment in Barcelona

Seeking refuge? The potential of urban climate shelters to address intersecting vulnerabilities

A study on gender inclusivity in urban greening in Barcelona

Greening plans as (re)presentation of the city:

Toward an inclusive and gender-sensitive approach to urban greenspaces

Equity concerns in transformative planning: Barcelona’s Superblocks under scrutiny

Grassroots mobilization for a just, green urban future:

Building community infrastructure against green gentrification and displacement

Promoting Health Equity Through Preventing or Mitigating the Effects of Gentrification:

A Theoretical and Methodological Guide

(Mis-)belonging to the climate-resilient city:

Making place in multi-risk communities of racialized urban America

The right to the unhealthy deprived city:

An exploration into the impacts of state-led redevelopment projects on the determinants of mental health

Justice should be at the centre of assessments of climate change impacts on health

A tag is worth a thousand pictures:

A framework for an empirically grounded typology of relational values through social media

Residential Proximity to Urban Play Spaces and Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Barcelona, Spain:

A Population-Based Longitudinal Study

Nature-based solutions as discursive tools and contested practices in urban nature’s neoliberalisation processes

UCLG GOLD VI Report: Chapter 7

“We are the Green Capital”:

Navigating the political and sustainability fix narratives of urban greening

Green Gentrification in Barcelona: 1990s-2016

Integrating justice in Nature-Based Solutions to avoid nature-enabled dispossession

Endometriosis and Environmental Violence:

An Embodied, Situated Ecopolitics from the Land of Fires in Campania, Italy

Community climate resilience and environmental education:

Opportunities and challenges for transformative learning

Gender and sex differences in urban greenness’ mental health benefits:

Green gentrification in European and North American cities

Green justice through policy and practice:

A call for further research into tools that foster healthy green cities for all

Advancing urban health equity in the United States in an age of health care gentrification:

A framework and research agenda

Exploring green gentrification in 28 global North cities:

the role of urban parks and other types of greenspaces

RAUN

Public-Private Partnerships for the Promotion of Nature-based Solutions in Urban Settings

Trame

Weaving praxis and knowledges for a situated political ecology

Virtual spill-over effects:

What social media has to do with relational values and global environmental stewardship

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

“They Didn’t See It Coming”: Green Resilience Planning and Vulnerability to Future Climate Gentrification

Active use and perceptions of parks as urban assets for physical activity: A mixed-methods study

Mental Health Outcomes in Barcelona: The Interplay between Gentrification and Greenspace

From sustainable development to social-ecological justice:

Addressing taboos and naturalizations in order to shift perspective

Research Summary 2017-2021

A summary of our research on urban justice in Barcelona for policymakers and planners

The relationship between residential proximity to outdoor play spaces and children’s mental and behavioral health:

The importance of neighborhood socio-economic characteristics

Exposure to nature and mental health outcomes during COVID-19 lockdown. A comparison between Portugal and Spain

Natural outdoor environments’ health effects in gentrifying neighborhoods:

Disruptive green landscapes for underprivileged neighborhood residents

SI: The governance and politics of Nature-Based Solutions in the city

Tracing and building up environmental justice considerations in the urban ecosystem service literature: A systematic review

Rail-to-park transformations in 21st century modern cities: Green gentrification on track

Adapting the environmental risk transition theory for urban health inequities:

An observational study examining complex environmental riskscapes in seven neighborhoods in Global North cities

Policy and Planning Tools for Urban Green Justice

Bringing Nature Back to the Metropolis for All

Breaking Down and Building Up: Gentrification, Its drivers, and Urban Health Inequality

Three Histories of Greening and Whiteness in American Cities

The governance of nature-based solutions in the city at the intersection of justice and equity

The European Green Deal as catalyst for climate justice in cities

Community gardening in Hellinikon as a resistance struggle against neoliberal urbanism:

Spatial autogestion and the right to the city in post-crisis Athens, Greece

School greening: Right or privilege?

Examining urban nature within and around primary schools through an equity lens

Quality of Life Benefits of Urban Rooftop Gardening for People With Intellectual Disabilities or Mental Health Disorders

“Everyone wants this market to grow”: The affective post-politics of municipal green bonds

Growing Farming Heroes? Politics of Imaginaries within Farmer Training Programs in California

Les Solucions Basades en la Natura en L’Ambit Municipal

Young families and children in gentrifying neighbourhoods:

How gentrification reshapes use and perception of green play spaces

Whose city? Whose nature? Towards inclusive nature-based solution governance

Advancing the green infrastructure approach in the Province of Barcelona:

Integrating biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services into landscape planning

Clashing temporalities of care and support as key determinants of transformatory and justice potentials in urban gardens

The COVID-19 Pandemic

Power and privilege, gentrification, and urban environmental justice in the global north

Hidden drivers of social injustice

Uncovering unequal cultural ecosystem services behind green gentrification

Real estate crisis resolution regimes and residential REITs:

Emerging socio-spatial impacts in Barcelona

A call to engage: Considering the role of gentrification in public health research

Climate Justice in a Climate Changed World

Towards an Emancipatory Urban Climate Justice Through Adaptation?

The Impact of COVID-19 on Public Space

A Review of the Emerging Questions

Expanding the Boundaries of Justice in Urban Greening Scholarship: Toward an Emancipatory, Antisubordination, Intersectional, and Relational Approach

Weaving notions of justice into urban ecosystem services research and practice

Nature-based solutions as discursive tools and contested practices in urban nature’s neoliberalisation processes

The everyday politics of urban transformational adaptation: Struggles for authority and the Barcelona superblock project

Under one canopy? Assessing the distributional environmental justice implications of street tree benefits in Barcelona

Opinion: Why green “climate gentrification” threatens poor and vulnerable populations

Understanding climate gentrification and shifting landscapes of protection and vulnerability in green resilient Philadelphia

Urban green boosterism and city affordability: For whom is the ‘branded’ green city?

Naturvation Report

International Comparison of Nature-Based Solutions

Toward a green and playful city: Understanding the social and political production of children’s relational wellbeing in Barcelona

Gentrification and health in two global cities: a call to identify impacts for socially-vulnerable residents

Determining the health benefits of green space: Does gentrification matter?

Grabbed urban landscapes: Socio-spatial tensions in green infrastructure planning in Medellín

Socio-spatial legibility, discipline, and gentrification through favela upgrading in Rio de Janeiro

New Scholarly Pathways on Green Gentrification

From landscapes of utopia to the margins of the green urban life: For whom is the new green city?

From Jacobs to the Just City: A foundation for challenging the green planning orthodoxy

Green Trajectories

From Systems Thinking to Systemic Action: Social Vulnerability and the Institutional Challenge of Urban Resilience

Power and privilege in alternative civic practices: Examining imaginaries of change and embedded rationalities in community economies

Greening cities – To be socially inclusive? About the alleged paradox of society and ecology in cities

Assessing green gentrification in historically disenfranchised neighborhoods: a longitudinal and spatial analysis of Barcelona

Are green cities healthy and equitable? Unpacking the relationship between health, green space and gentrification

Can Healthy Cities Be Made Really Healthy?

From Occupying Plazas to Recuperating Housing: Insurgent Practices in Spain