María José Zapata Campos, Sebastián Carenzo, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Michael Oloko, Jessica Pérez Reynosa, Patrik Zapata
{"title":"Inclusive recycling movements: a green deep democracy from below.","authors":"María José Zapata Campos, Sebastián Carenzo, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Michael Oloko, Jessica Pérez Reynosa, Patrik Zapata","doi":"10.1177/0956247820967621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247820967621","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper examines the multiple strategies articulated by grassroots recycler networks to bring about socioenvironmental change. The paper shows how these networks are an emblematic case of grassroots governmentality, whereby urban poor communities contribute to building more inclusive environmental regimes by developing technologies of power more typical of the powerful. These technologies include enumeration, with its resulting self-knowledge; the production of discourses and rationalities of social inclusion and environmental sustainability; and engagement in open and diverse alliances, at times with actors holding apparently antagonistic interests. The paper also reveals how recycling networks are a representative case of deep and green democracy. It is deep democracy, as grassroots networks strive to gain deep and true representativeness in their territories. It is green democracy, as it illustrates alternative pathways to environmental governance that is not limited to state and global organizations, but that also includes a range of control techniques emanating from the communities themselves.</p>","PeriodicalId":48038,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Urbanization","volume":"33 2","pages":"579-598"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0956247820967621","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39538488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial: Citizen participation in planning: from the neighbourhood to the city","authors":"D. Mitlin","doi":"10.1177/09562478211035608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478211035608","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48038,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Urbanization","volume":"33 1","pages":"295 - 309"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48521455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The value of participatory urban policy councils: engaging actors through policy communities","authors":"Ana Paula Pimentel Walker, A. Friendly","doi":"10.1177/09562478211031705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478211031705","url":null,"abstract":"Despite considerable literature exploring Brazil’s participatory management, less academic attention focuses on Brazil’s public policy councils (conselhos gestores de políticas públicas), which are permanent political-institutional structures on a range of policy issues mediating between society and the state. This article analyses urban policy councils in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul State, and Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State, considering whether this participatory planning tool advances democratic inclusion. We approach participatory planning through the lens of policy communities. Through these cases, we demonstrate that these two councils do not, in fact, enable all those affected and interested to influence and define policies. Yet even if the views of the most disenfranchised do not ultimately prevail, these urban policy councils contribute to publicizing urban policy issues and democratizing the range of stakeholders that gain access to the policy community. We conclude by highlighting suggestions for improving public policy councils as mechanisms for participatory planning.","PeriodicalId":48038,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Urbanization","volume":"33 1","pages":"436 - 455"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41583983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Excluded communities and participatory land-use planning: experience from informal Roma settlements in Serbia","authors":"Zlata Vuksanović-Macura, Igor Miščević","doi":"10.1177/09562478211024095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478211024095","url":null,"abstract":"Citizen participation in the planning and decision-making process in the European post-socialist context is much debated. Still, the involvement of excluded communities in the urban planning process remains understudied. This paper presents and discusses the application of an innovative participatory approach designed to ensure active involvement of an excluded ethnic minority, the Roma community, in the process of formulating and adopting land-use plans for informal settlements in Serbia. By analysing the development of land-use plans in 11 municipalities, we observe that the applied participatory approach enhanced the inhabitants’ active participation and helped build consensus on the planned solution between the key actors. Findings also suggested that further work with citizens, capacity building of planners and administration, and secured financial mechanisms are needed to move citizen participation in urban planning beyond the limited statutory requirements.","PeriodicalId":48038,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Urbanization","volume":"33 1","pages":"456 - 477"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49036919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How does community-managed infrastructure scale up from rural to urban? An example of co-production in community water projects in Northern Pakistan","authors":"Matt Birkinshaw, A. Grieser, Jeff Tan","doi":"10.1177/09562478211034853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478211034853","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the role of participation, co-production and community management in a random sample of 50 rural and urban water systems under the Water and Sanitation Extension Programme (WASEP) in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. It looks at the role of an NGO (the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat) in co-production, and how this model of community-based water management (CBWM) contributes to the discussion in the literature. Specifically, the paper considers whether the largely rural WASEP model can be successfully scaled up and scaled out to urban centres, drawing on evidence from a survey of over 2,500 rural and urban households. The findings illustrate the importance of participation in the successful delivery of water systems. However, higher levels of rural participation are related to specifically rural features, including the smaller size and more limited diversity of communities. The paper concludes that new methods may be required for the transfer of CBWM to urban centres with much larger, more diverse and growing populations.","PeriodicalId":48038,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Urbanization","volume":"33 1","pages":"496 - 518"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49115889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bulletin Board","authors":"Ordean G. Ness","doi":"10.1080/03634525609376821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03634525609376821","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48038,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Urbanization","volume":"33 1","pages":"617 - 621"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03634525609376821","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43806248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rights, justice and climate resilience: lessons from fieldwork in urban Southeast Asia","authors":"R. Mcmillan, Joanna Kocsis, A. Daniere","doi":"10.1177/09562478211035644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478211035644","url":null,"abstract":"Recent transformative resilience research calls for urban climate interventions that better meet the needs of low-income and other marginalized groups. Such initiatives, it is suggested, must move beyond technocratic and superficial solutions to address the systems and structures that create climate vulnerability. While these are important theoretical developments, there is still much to be learned about how to support transformative resilience on the ground. This paper situates transformative resilience theory in practice with lessons from a five-year research partnership in Southeast Asian cities. We argue that for resilience research to advance rights and justice, knowledge production and mobilization efforts must be conceptualized as active parts of the transformation process. Bringing together conceptual and methodological insights from resilience, political ecology and governance learning research, we offer three pathways for transformative resilience and present examples of how they can be operationalized in Southeast Asia and beyond.","PeriodicalId":48038,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Urbanization","volume":"38 1","pages":"170 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81169350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contributions of participatory budgeting to climate change adaptation and mitigation: current local practices across the world and lessons from the field","authors":"Y. Cabannes","doi":"10.1177/09562478211021710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478211021710","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the extent to which participatory budgeting (PB) contributes to climate change adaptation and mitigation, based on an analysis of initiatives from 15 cities and regions in the global South and North. PB contributions are far from marginal, with significant investments decided by local people. The paper highlights some of the numerous innovations introduced to integrate PB into climate adaptation and mitigation efforts. Through a scrutiny of 4,400 PB projects, the research identified six categories of climate-related projects encompassing hardware as well as software approaches, such as awareness-raising activities, community-based early warning projects and research. The paper advocates for solidarity PBs for climate justice, and raises awareness of the huge (and as yet largely untapped) potential for this to help address the dramatic impacts that climate change has on millions of people’s lives. It also points to questions for future research.","PeriodicalId":48038,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Urbanization","volume":"33 1","pages":"356 - 375"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2021-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/09562478211021710","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48272295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Ortiz, A. Vallejo, Jorge Peña, E. Morris, Joiselen Cazanave Macías, Dayané Proenza González
{"title":"Mapping participatory planning in Havana: patchwork legacies for a strengthened local governance","authors":"C. Ortiz, A. Vallejo, Jorge Peña, E. Morris, Joiselen Cazanave Macías, Dayané Proenza González","doi":"10.1177/09562478211032570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478211032570","url":null,"abstract":"In 2019, Cuba approved a new political constitution that calls for deepening citizen participation to strengthen local governance. The emerging decentralization processes and the role of new actors in urban development open new possibilities for inclusive planning. While citizen participation is widely documented in the global South and under Western liberal democracy regimes, participatory urban planning in the context of Southern socialist cities such as Havana has been less scrutinized. This paper aims at mapping the framings, trajectories and legacies of such participatory planning initiatives. Based on mapping workshops and desktop research, we find that participatory initiatives within Havana are spatially dispersed, sporadic, lacking at the city level, and occurring in isolation at the neighbourhood level. We argue that establishing sustained participatory urban planning practices in Havana requires decision makers to scale outwards and upwards the lessons learned from existing initiatives to foster a city-wide participatory planning strategy.","PeriodicalId":48038,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Urbanization","volume":"33 1","pages":"330 - 355"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2021-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/09562478211032570","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49588260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}