Local Environment

Article	Citations
Urban planning and degrowth: a missing dialogue	53
Young families and children in gentrifying neighbourhoods: how gentrification reshapes use and perception of green play spaces	38
Solar photovoltaic energy infrastructures, land use and sociocultural context in Portugal	32
Community repair in the circular economy – fixing more than stuff	30
Engaging Indigenous perspectives on health, wellbeing and climate change. A new research agenda for holistic climate action in Aotearoa and beyond	29
Challenges facing sustainable water supply, sanitation and hygiene achievement in urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa	29
Locally led adaptation: drivers for appropriate grassroots initiatives	27
Making sustainability plans more equitable: an analysis of 50 U.S. Cities	26
“Nobody” matters in circular landscapes	24
Urban social sustainability at the neighbourhood scale: measurement and the impact of physical and personal factors	22
Connections in the garden: opportunities for wellbeing	21
Transcending existing paradigms: the quest for justice in urban climate change planning	21
Spatialising procedural justice: fairness and local knowledge mobilisation in nuclear waste siting	20
Just by design: exploring justice as a multidimensional concept in US circular economy discourse	18
Potential and limitations of innovative housing solutions in planning for degrowth: the case of Vienna	17
An intersectional reading of circular economy policies: towards just and sufficiency-driven sustainabilities	17
Beyond inclusion? Perceptions of the extent to which Extinction Rebellion speaks to, and for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and working-class communities	17
“You want protected bike lanes, I want protected Black children. Let’s link”: equity, justice, and the barriers to active transportation in North America	17
Socio-cultural analysis of ecosystem services provided by mangroves in La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve, southeastern Mexico	17
Food system transformation: a progressive place-based approach	17
Circularity, entropy, ecological conflicts and LFFU	16
Deliberative democracy and environmental justice: evaluating the role of citizens’ juries in urban climate governance	16
Justice, equity, and the circular economy: introduction to the special double issue	16
Sustainable circular cities? Analysing urban circular economy policies in Amsterdam, Glasgow, and Copenhagen	16
Are Green, dense cities more inclusive? Densification and housing accessibility in Oslo	16

Community gardens as local learning environments in social housing contexts: participant perceptions of enhanced wellbeing and community connection	16
The emotional element of urban densification	14
COVID-19 pandemic and informal women workers in peri-urban communities in Nigeria	14
Strengthening community-based adaptation for urban transformation: managing flood risk in informal settlements in Cape Town	13
Strategic sustainable service design for creative-cultural hotels: a multi-level and multi-domain view	13
Participatory planning for the future of accessible nature	13
An assessment of the smallholder rice farming households’ vulnerability to climate change and variability in the Mekong delta region of Vietnam	13
Let children plan neighborhoods for a sustainable future: a sustainable child-friendly city approach	13
Spatialising degrowth, degrowing urban planning	13
In quest of implementing degrowth in local urban planning policies	13
Policing the stigma in our waste: what we know about informal waste pickers in the global north	13
Living Waters or Resource? Ontological differences and the governance of waters and rivers	13
Historical neighbourhood redlining and contemporary environmental racism	12
Social innovation: a preliminary exploration of a contested concept	12
Application of space syntax in neighbourhood park research: an investigation of multiple socio-spatial attributes of park use	12
A systematic, mixed studies review of the outcomes of community garden participation related to food justice	12
“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	12
Ecosystem changes and community wellbeing: social-ecological innovations in enhancing resilience of wetlands communities in Bangladesh	12
Socially just community-based climate change adaptation? Insights from Bangladesh	11
Building capacity towards what? Proposing a framework for the analysis of energy transition governance in the context of urban informality in Sub-Saharan Africa	11
How does Extinction Rebellion engage with climate justice? A case study of XR Norwich	11
Barriers to and enablers of sustainable practices: insights from ethnic minority migrants	11
Climate change in rural Ghana: perceptions and adaptive responses	11
Rent and reparation: how the law shapes Indigenous opportunities from large renewable energy projects	10
Action research to improve water quality in Canada’s Rideau Canal: how do local groups reshape environmental governance?	10
Adaptation strategies of nomadic herders in northeast Mongolia: climate, globalisation and traditional knowledge	10
People as environment: local environmental concerns and urban marginality in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan region	10
From smart cities to a happy and sustainable society: urban happiness as a critical pathway toward sustainability transitions	10
GIS-based mappings of park accessibility at multiple spatial scales: a research framework with the case of Izmir (Turkey)	10
A degrowth approach to urban mobility options: just, desirable and practical options	10
Environmental responsibility and Rohingya refugees: potential grounds for justice	10
Re-embedding the circular economy in Circles of Social Life: beyond the self-repairing (and still-rapacious) economy	10
Community renewable energy’s problematic relationship with social justice: insights from Ontario	10
The environmentalism of the subalterns: a case study of environmental activism in Eastern Kurdistan/Rojhelat	10
Is there room for a circular economy “from below”? Reflections on privatisation and commoning of circular waste loops in Argentina	10
Flood risk management, (un)managed retreat and the “relocation fix”: examining shifting responsibilities and compounding risks through two Irish case studies	9
Assessing affordability as water poverty in Metropolitan Barcelona	9
Social capital: improving community capacity to respond to urban heat	9
As South Africa’s cities burn: we can clean-up, but we cannot sweep away inequality	9
Environmental justice in Phoenix, Arizona: a neighbourhood deficit and asset score	9
Understanding the multiple harms of energy poverty through Nussbaum’s theory of central capabilities	9
Towards degrowth housing development? Lessons from a scenario-based gaming session in the Oslo region	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
Towards digitalisation of socially sustainable neighbourhood design	9
Hurricane Harvey: equal opportunity storm or disparate disaster?	9
Contextualising environmental and climate change migration in Uganda	9
Co-producing just energy transition in everyday practices: sociotechnical innovation and sustainable development in the Thailand-Myanmar border	9
Place-making, place-disruption, and place protection of urban blue spaces: perceptions of waterfront planning of a polluted urban waterbody	8
Do gender differences lead to unequal access to climate adaptation strategies in an agrarian context? Perceptions from coastal Bangladesh	8
The potential use of green infrastructure in the regeneration of brownfield sites: three case studies from Japan’s Osaka Bay Area	8

Advocacy journalism and climate justice in a Global Southern country	8
Barriers for upgrading of latrines in rural Ethiopia: disentangling a sanitation socio-technical lock-in	8
Using the capability approach to evaluate energy vulnerability policies and initiatives in Victoria, Australia	8
Public perceptions of networked infrastructure	8
A report on the impacts of cyclone Yaas over a fish landing centre vulnerable to cyclonic storms and natural hazards – Talsari, Northern Odisha	8
Beyond community characteristics: a leader's gender and local government adoption of energy conservation practices and redistributive programmes	8
The forgotten essential workers in the circular economy? Waste picker precarity and resilience amidst the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Don’t blame it on the sunshine! An exploration of the spatial distribution of heat injustice across districts in Antwerp, Belgium	8
Urban degrowth economics: making cities better places for living, working, and playing	8
Energy infrastructure transitions and environmental governance	8
Models of governance in community gardening: administrative support fosters project longevity	7
The governance of plastic in India: towards a just transition for recycling in the unorganised sector	7
The role of public procurement to foster social equity and justice: critical reflections on the circular procurement concept	7
Geopolitics of climate change-induced conflict and population displacement in West Africa	7
What are the regionally specific institutions that matter for renewable energy deployment and how can they be identified? Some insights from Italian regions	7
“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	7
“It’s our future.” Youth and fracking justice in England	7
Citizen science and environmental justice: exploring contradictory outcomes through a case study of air quality monitoring in Dublin	7
Well understood? A literature study defining and operationalising community social sustainability	7
The impacts of and responses to place loss in a coastal community in Ireland	7
Characterisation of social sustainability in a decayed urban block in Iran (a case study of: Saheb Al-Amri neighbourhood of Ghasr-Dasht, Shiraz)	7
Including local knowledge in coastal policy innovation: comparing three Dutch case studies	7
People’s action for climate justice: a systematic review	7
Building territorial value within local circular economy’s projects: lessons from French scholars’ studies	7
The end of the line: envisioning degrowth and ecosocial justice in the resistance to the trolleybus dismantlement in Moscow	7
How much for an inclusive and solidary selective waste collection? A Brazilian study case	6
Climate change and equitable urban water management: critical urban water zones (CUWZs) in Nepal and beyond	6
Cultivating inclusive public space with urban gardens	6
Promoting citizen-based river groups at sub-basin scale for multi-level river governance in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region	6
Cult violence in Nigeria and corporate social responsibility in oil-producing communities	6
Humanizing hydrocarbon frontiers: the “lived experience” of shale gas fracking in the United Kingdom’s Fylde communities	6
Towards energy security in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region: insights from community members and local residents	6
Participatory network mapping of an emergent social network for a regional transition to a low-carbon and just society on the Dingle Peninsula	6
A layout optimization approach to urban park green spaces based on accessibility evaluation: a case study of the central area in Wuxi city	6
Re-visiting sustainable development: sustainability and well-being from the perspectives of indigenous people in rural Ghana	5
The notion of justice in funded research on urban sustainability: performing on a postpolitical stage or staging the political?	5
Resistance to mining and adaptation of Indonesia farmer's household to economic vulnerability of small scale sand mining activities	5
Can you standardise transformation? Reflections on the transformative potential of benchmarking as a mode of governance	5
Ethnicity as a social determinant of energy poverty: the case of Mexican indigenous population	5
Towards representative resilience: the power of culture to foster local resource representation	5
Exploring the role of local authorities and community participation in solid waste management in sub-saharan Africa: a study of Alexandra, Johannesburg, South Africa	5
Now or never: will COVID-19 bring about water and sanitation reform in Dharavi, Mumbai?	5
The nexus of traditional knowledge and climate change adaptation: Romanian farmers’ behavior towards landraces	5
Sustainable sharing in local communities: exploring the role of social capital	5
Share a ride, rent a tool, swap used goods, change the world? Motivations to engage in collaborative consumption in Brazil	5
(Re)configuring moral boundaries of intergenerational justice: the UK parent-led climate movement	5
Thinking of anti-incineration protests in strategic action fields: three case studies in mainland China	5
Barcelona’s housing policy under austerity urbanism: a contribution to the debate on degrowth and urban planning	5
Energy justice intermediaries: Living Labs in the low-carbon transformation	5
Workers perception of and coping with the health risks of informal electronic waste recycling in Ghana	5
Gender equality of privacy protection in the use of urban furniture in the Muslim context of Iran	5
In the land of the “fair go”: global food policy lessons beyond the charity model	5
Understanding urban agriculture in context: environmental, social, and psychological benefits of agriculture in Singapore	4
Utopia of social distancing and dystopia of living in slums: urban poor’s perspectives from the global south and the theory of planned behaviour	4
Just wheat transitions?: working toward constructive structural changes in wheat production	4
Collaborating for nature-based solutions: bringing research and practice together	4
Invisible boundaries to access and participation in public spaces: navigating community diversity in Leicester, UK	4
Landowners’ willingness to supply agricultural land for conversion into urban uses in peri-urban Ghana	4
Reimagining craft for community development	4
Environmental justice is exhausting: five decades of air pollution and community advocacy at Ezra Prentice Homes in Albany, New York	4
Vertical gardening and Syrian women refugees in Lebanon: an exploratory study on motivation for gardening and depression relief	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
Effects on perceptions of greenspace benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
A critical air quality science perspective on citizen science in action	4
Defying gravity: environmental justice rises in California’s capital city	4
Lessons from local indigenous climate adaptation practices: perceptions and evidence from coastal Bangladesh	4
Investigating the impacts of green spaces planning on social sustainability improvement in Tehran, Iran: a SWOT-AHP analysis	4
Regional energy futures as decision support in the transition to net zero emissions: North of Tyne case study	4
Sustainability or sustainable infrastructure? Using sustainability discourse to construct a motorway	4
Challenging gender inequity in wildlife conservation: a women’s group leading sea turtle conservation efforts in El Salvador	4
The intention-implementation gap for community involvement in urban waterways governance: a scoping review	4
Gardening from the ground up: a review of grassroots governance and management of domestic gardening in Canada	4
Neighbourhood social sustainable development and spatial scale: a qualitative case study in Sweden	4
Prime-time access for whom? Rhythms fairness and the dynamic pricing of infrastructure services	4
A gendered perspective on climate change adaptation strategies: a case study from Yunnan, China	4
The role of territorial conflicts in multi-municipal water governance: a case study from Taipei Metropolis	4
Increasing community environmental awareness, participation in conservation, and livelihood enhancement through tourism	4
Organic for everyone? Access to sustainable, locally grown produce at farmers markets in New Jersey	4
The material politics of integrated urban stormwater management in Los Angeles, California	4

Hydropower: renewable and contributing to sustainable development? A critical analysis from the Mazar-Dudas project (Ecuador)	4
Holding up a mirror: researching symmetrically to explore exclusion, othering and whiteness in local environmental governance	3
Implementation of a community grant program to address community-driven environmental health concerns	3
Factors that influence user patronage and satisfaction of urban parks in Ghanaian cities: case of the Rattray Park in Nhyiaeso, Kumasi	3
Perceived differential vulnerability and climate change-related hazards in informal settlements in Accra, Ghana: re-thinking vulnerability to climate change in urban areas	3
Just sustainabilities: The case of eco-estates in South Africa	3
Spatial coupling relationship between multidimensional poverty and the risk of geological disaster	3
Contextual factors for transnational municipal network's local environmental action: a study of ICLEI Africa's LAB Wetlands SA Programme	3
Creative counter-discourses to the “green city” narrative: practices of small-scale urban agriculture in Hanoi, Vietnam	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
Investigating pedestrian connectivity within apartment complexes: a case study of Seoul and Singapore	3
Seeking justice in risk landscapes. Small data and toxic autobiographies from an Italian petrochemical town (Gela, Sicily)	3
Climate change loss and damage governance. Where are we now? A case study from Fiji’s sugar industry	3
Between the market and the developmental state – the place and limits of pro-poor ENGO led “waste-preneurship” in South Africa	3
Just sustainability, actor-networks and environmental politics in China: local controversies over shared environmental infrastructure in industrial districts	3
Right tree, right place for whom? Environmental justice and practices of urban forest assessment	3
Farm level adaptation to climate change: insight from rice farmers in the coastal region of Bangladesh	3
What constitutes the social in (social) sustainability? Community, society and equity in South African water governance	3
The post-industrial legacy in Brazil: where circular economy principles meet collective urban practices by design	3
Discourse analysis of the perceptions of environmental justice and respiratory health disparities in Dallas, TX	3
Residents Against Dirty Energy: using energy justice to understand the role of local activism in shaping low-carbon transitions	3
The influence of ethnicity and other socio-demographic characteristics on pro-environmental attitudes: a Malaysian perspective	3
From the ger districts to the city centre: contrasts and inequities of access and mobility in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia	3
How does sustainable water consumption in the shower relate to different dimensions of perceived well-being? Empirical evidence from university students	3
Analysing the treatment of environmental justice and nature-based solutions in the Urban Climate Action Plans of Latin American metropolitan areas	3
Urban foraging, resilience and food provisioning services provided by edible plants in interstitial urban spaces in Mexico City	3
Can liberalised electricity markets deliver on climate change and energy poverty? Evidence from community projects in Great Britain	3
Disruption as opportunity for transformation? Insights from water supply contamination in Havelock North, New Zealand	3
“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	3
Getting adaptation right – challenges and ethical issues facing planners adapting to sea level rise in southern Sweden	3
Efficiency in environmental spending for sustainable development in Spanish cities	3
Enhancing the adaptive capacity of pro-poor populations for climate change adaptation: analysis of cash transfer programs in rural Ghana	3
Visualising Heritage: a critical discourse analysis of place, race, and nationhood along the Erie Canal	3
Reclaiming traditional food systems in alternative food networks. Insights from Mexico city peri-urban agriculture	3
Seattle’s CHOP guerrilla garden as a “thick” space of civil resistance	3
Polarising Ushuaia: informal settlements and tourism in an Antarctic gateway city	3
Trapped within nature: climatic variability and its impact on traditional livelihood of Gaddi transhumance of Indian Himalayas	3
Public action and policy implementation: a comparative analysis of Urban Agriculture in three regions of São Paulo	3
The refeudalisation of parks: subduing urban parks in Bucharest	3
A community-integrated geographic information system study of air pollution exposure impacts in Colfax, LA	3
The data treadmill: water governance and the politics of pollution in rural Ireland	2
Agricultural policies and local sustainability: a normative coherence for development analysis of Mexico's pineapple sector	2
Combating food insecurity and creating sustenance: addressing the root causes of hunger in the US through political empowerment and public policy engagement	2
Conceptualising and enacting pathways to transformative climate justice: examples from the Philippines	2
Carceral jaguar geographies along the US/México border and the case for border abolition	2
Just transition in the post-pandemic city	2
Public perceptions of the health benefits of green spaces in urban Ghana	2
Understanding resistance to reductions in water subsidies in Kuwait	2
Conflicts between traditional and modern governance structures in Irish seaweed harvesting	2
Transformation through transdisciplinary practice: cultivating new lines of sight for urban transformation	2
Comparing two analytical approaches to evaluate access to fresh, healthy food: a case of the Indiana Uplands	2
Interactions between traditional and modern institutions in environmental governance of mining in Asutifi North District of Ghana	2
Experimenting with sustainability education: the case of a student-driven campus initiative in Finland	2
Post-growth municipalism: exploring the scalar constitution, strategic relevance, and legal viability of the municipal scale for tackling growth dependencies	2
Co-designing publics: [re]producing the public realm via informal urbanisms in cities of the global south	2
Socially embedding the food system: the role of alternative food initiatives to build sustainable food models	2
More than one story: remaking community and place in Sweden’s transition to a fossil free society	2
Capitalising on water soft paths: new futures for urban communities	2
Intersectional climate action: the role of community-based organisations in urban climate justice	2
Social protection for transformative resilience: do programmes really address underlying causes of vulnerability of subsistence farmers to climate change?	2
Approaching an efficient means of addressing urban environmental challenges: a review of Ghana's “reactive” measures to “proactive” measures	2
Growth over resilience: how Canadian municipalities frame the challenge of reducing carbon emissions	2
Just sustainabilities: lessons from the Lake Turkana Wind Power project in Kenya	2
Assessing how rural-urban migration is incorporated in Ghana’s national urban policy: a qualitative content analysis	2
Analysis of public attitudes towards “local agreements” on restarting nuclear power plants: a questionnaire survey in four prefectures in Japan	2
Use of menstrual cup and awareness of environmental effects of menstrual hygiene products	2
Investigating determinants of intentions and behaviours of farmers towards a circular economy for water recycling in paddy field	2
Urban sustainability via urban productivity? A conceptual review and framework proposal	2
Household income and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in the urban slums of Punjab, Pakistan	2
The reformist sustainability discourse and the exclusion of the informal economy from Mexico City’s environmental policies	2
Climate change, mining development and residential water security in the uMkhanyakude District Muncipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a double catastrophe for local communities	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