Local Environment

Article	Citations
The impossibility of social distancing among the urban poor: the case of an Indian slum in the times of COVID-19	135
Solid waste management during Covid-19 pandemic: policy gaps and prospects for inclusive waste governance in Nigeria	46
Urban planning and degrowth: a missing dialogue	43
Covid-19 lockdown and physical distancing policies are elitist: towards an indigenous (Afro-centred) approach to containing the pandemic in sub-urban slums in Nigeria	37
Young families and children in gentrifying neighbourhoods: how gentrification reshapes use and perception of green play spaces	32
Challenges facing sustainable water supply, sanitation and hygiene achievement in urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa	25
Solar photovoltaic energy infrastructures, land use and sociocultural context in Portugal	24
Engaging Indigenous perspectives on health, wellbeing and climate change. A new research agenda for holistic climate action in Aotearoa and beyond	23
Making COVID-19 prevention etiquette of social distancing a reality for the homeless and slum dwellers in Ghana: lessons for consideration	23
Revealing hidden energy poverty in Hong Kong: a multi-dimensional framework for examining and understanding energy poverty	22
Glocalization of COVID-19 responses and management of the pandemic in Africa	22
Locally led adaptation: drivers for appropriate grassroots initiatives	21
Community repair in the circular economy – fixing more than stuff	21
“Nobody” matters in circular landscapes	20
Making sustainability plans more equitable: an analysis of 50 U.S. Cities	20
Justice and power relations in urban greening: can Lisbon’s urban greening strategies lead to more environmental justice?	20
The effect of age, gender and marital status on residential satisfaction	18
Connections in the garden: opportunities for wellbeing	17
Spatialising procedural justice: fairness and local knowledge mobilisation in nuclear waste siting	17
Social inequality and water use in Australian cities: the social gradient in domestic water use	17
Transcending existing paradigms: the quest for justice in urban climate change planning	16
Sanitation workers at the frontline: work and vulnerability in response to COVID-19	16
Just by design: exploring justice as a multidimensional concept in US circular economy discourse	15
Urban social sustainability at the neighbourhood scale: measurement and the impact of physical and personal factors	15
Circularity, entropy, ecological conflicts and LFFU	15

Are Green, dense cities more inclusive? Densification and housing accessibility in Oslo	15
Beyond inclusion? Perceptions of the extent to which Extinction Rebellion speaks to, and for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and working-class communities	14
Potential and limitations of innovative housing solutions in planning for degrowth: the case of Vienna	13
From place to emplacement: the scalar politics of sustainability	13
Deliberative democracy and environmental justice: evaluating the role of citizens’ juries in urban climate governance	12
An assessment of the smallholder rice farming households’ vulnerability to climate change and variability in the Mekong delta region of Vietnam	12
The emotional element of urban densification	12
Food system transformation: a progressive place-based approach	12
Socio-cultural analysis of ecosystem services provided by mangroves in La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve, southeastern Mexico	11
A systematic, mixed studies review of the outcomes of community garden participation related to food justice	11
Unsafe waters: the hydrosocial cycle of drinking water in Western Mexico	11
Waste management in a more unequal world: centring inequality in our waste and climate change discourse	11
Strengthening community-based adaptation for urban transformation: managing flood risk in informal settlements in Cape Town	10
Climate change loss and damage policy implications for Pacific Island Countries	10
Community gardens as local learning environments in social housing contexts: participant perceptions of enhanced wellbeing and community connection	10
An intersectional reading of circular economy policies: towards just and sufficiency-driven sustainabilities	10
Participatory planning for the future of accessible nature	10
Action research to improve water quality in Canada’s Rideau Canal: how do local groups reshape environmental governance?	10
Climate change in rural Ghana: perceptions and adaptive responses	10
Ecosystem changes and community wellbeing: social-ecological innovations in enhancing resilience of wetlands communities in Bangladesh	10
Living Waters or Resource? Ontological differences and the governance of waters and rivers	10
Tale of two neighbourhoods: biophysical and socio-economic vulnerability to climate change in Pinellas County, Florida	10
Justice, equity, and the circular economy: introduction to the special double issue	10
Let children plan neighborhoods for a sustainable future: a sustainable child-friendly city approach	10
Building capacity towards what? Proposing a framework for the analysis of energy transition governance in the context of urban informality in Sub-Saharan Africa	10
“You want protected bike lanes, I want protected Black children. Let’s link”: equity, justice, and the barriers to active transportation in North America	10
Social innovation: a preliminary exploration of a contested concept	10
Pollution, place, and premature death: evidence from a mid-sized city	9
Indonesia’s fight against COVID-19: the roles of local government units and community organisations	9
How does Extinction Rebellion engage with climate justice? A case study of XR Norwich	9
COVID-19 pandemic and informal women workers in peri-urban communities in Nigeria	9
Spatialising degrowth, degrowing urban planning	9
Socially just community-based climate change adaptation? Insights from Bangladesh	9
“There is food we deserve, and there is food we do not deserve” Food injustice, place and power in urban agriculture in Cape Town and Maputo	9
Policing the stigma in our waste: what we know about informal waste pickers in the global north	9
Procedural environmental (in)justice at multiple scales: examining immigrant advocacy for improved living conditions	9
The importance of climate change awareness for the adaptive capacity of ethnic minority farmers in the mountainous areas of Thua Thien Hue province	9
Flood risk management, (un)managed retreat and the “relocation fix”: examining shifting responsibilities and compounding risks through two Irish case studies	9
Environmental justice in Phoenix, Arizona: a neighbourhood deficit and asset score	9
Strategic sustainable service design for creative-cultural hotels: a multi-level and multi-domain view	9
Assessing affordability as water poverty in Metropolitan Barcelona	8
Is there room for a circular economy “from below”? Reflections on privatisation and commoning of circular waste loops in Argentina	8
Environmental responsibility and Rohingya refugees: potential grounds for justice	8
As South Africa’s cities burn: we can clean-up, but we cannot sweep away inequality	8
Community renewable energy’s problematic relationship with social justice: insights from Ontario	8
A degrowth approach to urban mobility options: just, desirable and practical options	8
People as environment: local environmental concerns and urban marginality in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan region	8
Rent and reparation: how the law shapes Indigenous opportunities from large renewable energy projects	8
In quest of implementing degrowth in local urban planning policies	8
Barriers to and enablers of sustainable practices: insights from ethnic minority migrants	8

Energy infrastructure transitions and environmental governance	8
Towards degrowth housing development? Lessons from a scenario-based gaming session in the Oslo region	8
Local Environment and the UN Sustainable Development Goals	7
Adaptation strategies of nomadic herders in northeast Mongolia: climate, globalisation and traditional knowledge	7
A report on the impacts of cyclone Yaas over a fish landing centre vulnerable to cyclonic storms and natural hazards – Talsari, Northern Odisha	7
Beyond community characteristics: a leader's gender and local government adoption of energy conservation practices and redistributive programmes	7
Towards digitalisation of socially sustainable neighbourhood design	7
Understanding the multiple harms of energy poverty through Nussbaum’s theory of central capabilities	7
An assessment of social and environmental impacts of a new shale gas industry in the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire	7
Buying a sustainable society: the case of public procurement in Sweden	7
Hurricane Harvey: equal opportunity storm or disparate disaster?	7
Building territorial value within local circular economy’s projects: lessons from French scholars’ studies	7
Re-embedding the circular economy in Circles of Social Life: beyond the self-repairing (and still-rapacious) economy	7
From smart cities to a happy and sustainable society: urban happiness as a critical pathway toward sustainability transitions	6
Collaborative climate mitigation and adaptation planning with university, community, and municipal partners: a case study in Anchorage, Alaska	6
Models of governance in community gardening: administrative support fosters project longevity	6
Do gender differences lead to unequal access to climate adaptation strategies in an agrarian context? Perceptions from coastal Bangladesh	6
Advocacy journalism and climate justice in a Global Southern country	6
The impacts of and responses to place loss in a coastal community in Ireland	6
The forgotten essential workers in the circular economy? Waste picker precarity and resilience amidst the COVID-19 pandemic	6
The environmentalism of the subalterns: a case study of environmental activism in Eastern Kurdistan/Rojhelat	6
Social capital: improving community capacity to respond to urban heat	6
Co-producing just energy transition in everyday practices: sociotechnical innovation and sustainable development in the Thailand-Myanmar border	6
What are the regionally specific institutions that matter for renewable energy deployment and how can they be identified? Some insights from Italian regions	6
Place-making, place-disruption, and place protection of urban blue spaces: perceptions of waterfront planning of a polluted urban waterbody	6
Barcelona’s housing policy under austerity urbanism: a contribution to the debate on degrowth and urban planning	6
GIS-based mappings of park accessibility at multiple spatial scales: a research framework with the case of Izmir (Turkey)	6
The potential use of green infrastructure in the regeneration of brownfield sites: three case studies from Japan’s Osaka Bay Area	6
Historical neighbourhood redlining and contemporary environmental racism	5
The nexus of traditional knowledge and climate change adaptation: Romanian farmers’ behavior towards landraces	5
Sustainable circular cities? Analysing urban circular economy policies in Amsterdam, Glasgow, and Copenhagen	5
Share a ride, rent a tool, swap used goods, change the world? Motivations to engage in collaborative consumption in Brazil	5
Well understood? A literature study defining and operationalising community social sustainability	5
The end of the line: envisioning degrowth and ecosocial justice in the resistance to the trolleybus dismantlement in Moscow	5
Humanizing hydrocarbon frontiers: the “lived experience” of shale gas fracking in the United Kingdom’s Fylde communities	5
Devolving power from the state: local initiatives for nature protection and recreation in Sweden	5
Resistance to mining and adaptation of Indonesia farmer's household to economic vulnerability of small scale sand mining activities	5
The Flint water crisis: local reporting, community attachment, and environmental justice	5
(Re)configuring moral boundaries of intergenerational justice: the UK parent-led climate movement	5
Geopolitics of climate change-induced conflict and population displacement in West Africa	5
Cult violence in Nigeria and corporate social responsibility in oil-producing communities	5
Characterisation of social sustainability in a decayed urban block in Iran (a case study of: Saheb Al-Amri neighbourhood of Ghasr-Dasht, Shiraz)	5
Including local knowledge in coastal policy innovation: comparing three Dutch case studies	5
“It’s our future.” Youth and fracking justice in England	5
Public perceptions of networked infrastructure	5
Participatory network mapping of an emergent social network for a regional transition to a low-carbon and just society on the Dingle Peninsula	5
In the land of the “fair go”: global food policy lessons beyond the charity model	5
Exploring Vietnamese cereal smallholders’ perceptions and adaptations to temperature and precipitation variability: implications for adaptation strategies	4
Landowners’ willingness to supply agricultural land for conversion into urban uses in peri-urban Ghana	4
Thinking of anti-incineration protests in strategic action fields: three case studies in mainland China	4
Application of space syntax in neighbourhood park research: an investigation of multiple socio-spatial attributes of park use	4
The material politics of integrated urban stormwater management in Los Angeles, California	4
Towards energy security in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region: insights from community members and local residents	4
Workers perception of and coping with the health risks of informal electronic waste recycling in Ghana	4
Ethnicity as a social determinant of energy poverty: the case of Mexican indigenous population	4
Re-visiting sustainable development: sustainability and well-being from the perspectives of indigenous people in rural Ghana	4
Perceived standing: exploring why people accept or reject others’ access to public participation in local environmental conflicts	4
Using the capability approach to evaluate energy vulnerability policies and initiatives in Victoria, Australia	4
How much for an inclusive and solidary selective waste collection? A Brazilian study case	4
The governance of plastic in India: towards a just transition for recycling in the unorganised sector	4
People’s action for climate justice: a systematic review	4
Climate change and equitable urban water management: critical urban water zones (CUWZs) in Nepal and beyond	4
The role of territorial conflicts in multi-municipal water governance: a case study from Taipei Metropolis	4
Regional energy futures as decision support in the transition to net zero emissions: North of Tyne case study	4
Don’t blame it on the sunshine! An exploration of the spatial distribution of heat injustice across districts in Antwerp, Belgium	4
Challenging gender inequity in wildlife conservation: a women’s group leading sea turtle conservation efforts in El Salvador	4
Goals and persistence of sustainability experiments in divergent urban contexts: urban agriculture and a geodemographic classification in London	4
Another one breathes the dust. The relation between severe air pollution episodes and school attendance in southern Chile	4
Urban degrowth economics: making cities better places for living, working, and playing	3
Citizen science and environmental justice: exploring contradictory outcomes through a case study of air quality monitoring in Dublin	3
Enhancing the adaptive capacity of pro-poor populations for climate change adaptation: analysis of cash transfer programs in rural Ghana	3
Prime-time access for whom? Rhythms fairness and the dynamic pricing of infrastructure services	3
The influence of ethnicity and other socio-demographic characteristics on pro-environmental attitudes: a Malaysian perspective	3
Public action and policy implementation: a comparative analysis of Urban Agriculture in three regions of São Paulo	3
How does sustainable water consumption in the shower relate to different dimensions of perceived well-being? Empirical evidence from university students	3
Implementation of a community grant program to address community-driven environmental health concerns	3
Sustainability or sustainable infrastructure? Using sustainability discourse to construct a motorway	3
Getting adaptation right – challenges and ethical issues facing planners adapting to sea level rise in southern Sweden	3
Barriers for upgrading of latrines in rural Ethiopia: disentangling a sanitation socio-technical lock-in	3
The role of public procurement to foster social equity and justice: critical reflections on the circular procurement concept	3

Farm level adaptation to climate change: insight from rice farmers in the coastal region of Bangladesh	3
Promoting citizen-based river groups at sub-basin scale for multi-level river governance in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region	3
Just wheat transitions?: working toward constructive structural changes in wheat production	3
The post-industrial legacy in Brazil: where circular economy principles meet collective urban practices by design	3
The notion of justice in funded research on urban sustainability: performing on a postpolitical stage or staging the political?	3
Cultivating inclusive public space with urban gardens	3
Analysing the variation in farmers’ perceptions of climate change impacts on crop production and adaptation measures across the Ganges’ Tidal Floodplain in Bangladesh	3
Vertical gardening and Syrian women refugees in Lebanon: an exploratory study on motivation for gardening and depression relief	3
Comparative assessment of vulnerability of smallholder livestock farmers to climate change in North-West Ghana	3
Lessons from local indigenous climate adaptation practices: perceptions and evidence from coastal Bangladesh	3
From the ger districts to the city centre: contrasts and inequities of access and mobility in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia	3
Exploring the role of local authorities and community participation in solid waste management in sub-saharan Africa: a study of Alexandra, Johannesburg, South Africa	3
The refeudalisation of parks: subduing urban parks in Bucharest	3
Gardening from the ground up: a review of grassroots governance and management of domestic gardening in Canada	3
Contextualising environmental and climate change migration in Uganda	3
A critical air quality science perspective on citizen science in action	3
Towards representative resilience: the power of culture to foster local resource representation	3
Defying gravity: environmental justice rises in California’s capital city	3
Seeking justice in risk landscapes. Small data and toxic autobiographies from an Italian petrochemical town (Gela, Sicily)	3
A layout optimization approach to urban park green spaces based on accessibility evaluation: a case study of the central area in Wuxi city	3
“Two quid, chicken and chips, done”: understanding what makes for young people’s sense of living well in the city through the lens of fast food consumption	3
Environmental justice is exhausting: five decades of air pollution and community advocacy at Ezra Prentice Homes in Albany, New York	3
Trapped within nature: climatic variability and its impact on traditional livelihood of Gaddi transhumance of Indian Himalayas	3
Now or never: will COVID-19 bring about water and sanitation reform in Dharavi, Mumbai?	3
Can you standardise transformation? Reflections on the transformative potential of benchmarking as a mode of governance	3
Public perceptions of the health benefits of green spaces in urban Ghana	2
Polarising Ushuaia: informal settlements and tourism in an Antarctic gateway city	2
Disruption as opportunity for transformation? Insights from water supply contamination in Havelock North, New Zealand	2
Approaching an efficient means of addressing urban environmental challenges: a review of Ghana's “reactive” measures to “proactive” measures	2
Sustainable sharing in local communities: exploring the role of social capital	2
Investigating pedestrian connectivity within apartment complexes: a case study of Seoul and Singapore	2
Efficiency in environmental spending for sustainable development in Spanish cities	2
Perceived differential vulnerability and climate change-related hazards in informal settlements in Accra, Ghana: re-thinking vulnerability to climate change in urban areas	2
Invisible boundaries to access and participation in public spaces: navigating community diversity in Leicester, UK	2
Just sustainabilities: The case of eco-estates in South Africa	2
Reclaiming traditional food systems in alternative food networks. Insights from Mexico city peri-urban agriculture	2
Residents Against Dirty Energy: using energy justice to understand the role of local activism in shaping low-carbon transitions	2
Organic for everyone? Access to sustainable, locally grown produce at farmers markets in New Jersey	2
Interactions between traditional and modern institutions in environmental governance of mining in Asutifi North District of Ghana	2
Investigating the performance of models estimating NO2 and PM2.5 in the US metropolitan areas and their environmental inequality and vulnerable people areas	2
Between the market and the developmental state – the place and limits of pro-poor ENGO led “waste-preneurship” in South Africa	2
Agricultural policies and local sustainability: a normative coherence for development analysis of Mexico's pineapple sector	2
Urban agriculture in the making or gardening as epistemology	2
Co-designing publics: [re]producing the public realm via informal urbanisms in cities of the global south	2
Effects on perceptions of greenspace benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Capitalising on water soft paths: new futures for urban communities	2
Contextual factors for transnational municipal network's local environmental action: a study of ICLEI Africa's LAB Wetlands SA Programme	2
Urban sustainability via urban productivity? A conceptual review and framework proposal	2
Urban foraging, resilience and food provisioning services provided by edible plants in interstitial urban spaces in Mexico City	2
Hydropower: renewable and contributing to sustainable development? A critical analysis from the Mazar-Dudas project (Ecuador)	2
Growth over resilience: how Canadian municipalities frame the challenge of reducing carbon emissions	2
Comparing two analytical approaches to evaluate access to fresh, healthy food: a case of the Indiana Uplands	2
Analysing the treatment of environmental justice and nature-based solutions in the Urban Climate Action Plans of Latin American metropolitan areas	2
Utopia of social distancing and dystopia of living in slums: urban poor’s perspectives from the global south and the theory of planned behaviour	2
“It’s one of the few things that … pulls us together when the outside world is really tough.” Exploring the outcomes and challenges of a charity-led community garden in a disadvantaged English city	2
What constitutes the social in (social) sustainability? Community, society and equity in South African water governance	2
Discourse analysis of the perceptions of environmental justice and respiratory health disparities in Dallas, TX	2
Creative counter-discourses to the “green city” narrative: practices of small-scale urban agriculture in Hanoi, Vietnam	2