Forging just ecologies: 25 years of urban long-term ecological research collaboration

Grove, Morgan and Pickett, Steward and Boone, Christopher G. and Buckley, Geoffrey L. and Anderson, Pippin and Hoover, Fushcia-Ann and Lugo, Ariel E. and Meléndez-Ackerman, Elvia and Muñoz-Erickson, Tischa A. and Nagendra, Harini and Selles, L. Kidany (2024) Forging just ecologies: 25 years of urban long-term ecological research collaboration. Ambio, 53 (6). pp. 826-844. ISSN 0044-7447

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Abstract

We ask how environmental justice and urban ecology have influenced one another over the past 25 years in the context of the US Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program and Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) project. BES began after environmental justice emerged through activism and scholarship in the 1980s but spans a period of increasing awareness among ecologists and environmental practitioners. The work in Baltimore provides a detailed example of how ecological research has been affected by a growing understanding of environmental justice. The shift shows how unjust environmental outcomes emerge and are reinforced over time by systemic discrimination and exclusion. We do not comprehensively review the literature on environmental justice in urban ecology but do present four brief cases from the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia, to illustrate the global relevance of the topic. The example cases demonstrate the necessity for continuous engagement with communities in addressing environmental problem solving.

Item Type:	Article
Authors:	Grove, Morgan and Pickett, Steward and Boone, Christopher G. and Buckley, Geoffrey L. and Anderson, Pippin and Hoover, Fushcia-Ann and Lugo, Ariel E. and Meléndez-Ackerman, Elvia and Muñoz-Erickson, Tischa A. and Nagendra, Harini and Selles, L. Kidany
Document Language:	Language English
Subjects:	Social sciences > Sociology & anthropology > Communities > Planning and development > Development > Urban development Social sciences > Social problems & services Natural Sciences > Life sciences; biology > Ecology
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > School of Climate Change and Sustainability
Full Text Status:	Public
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/6972
Publisher URL:	https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01938-w

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