Climate urbanism and austerity in structurally disadvantaged cities

If the governance challenges of climate change have been well researched for medium-sized, affluent and larger entrepreneurial cities, relatively little is known about climate urbanism in small-to-medium-sized cities experiencing long-term industrial decline, social deprivation and austerity. Such s...

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Published in:Urban geography 2021-07, Vol.42 (6), p.728-732
Main Authors: Jonas, Andrew E.G., Wurzel, Rüdiger K.W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alliances
austerity
Austerity policy
Cities
Climate change
Climate urbanism
Deprivation
Disadvantaged
Economic conditions
Europe
Governance
Industrial decline
Social isolation
structurally disadvantaged cities
Urban development
Urbanism
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Summary:If the governance challenges of climate change have been well researched for medium-sized, affluent and larger entrepreneurial cities, relatively little is known about climate urbanism in small-to-medium-sized cities experiencing long-term industrial decline, social deprivation and austerity. Such structurally disadvantaged cities often struggle to build inclusive new climate alliances, attract green jobs, and forge new images. This intervention argues that research on climate urbanism needs to consider two emerging trends in structurally disadvantaged cities: (1) how austerity is producing uneven geographies of climate urbanism; (2) the local social and economic conditions underpinning the construction of new climate alliances around alternative trajectories of urban development.
ISSN:0272-3638
1938-2847
DOI:10.1080/02723638.2020.1840207