TITLE:
Urban Geography and the Production of Socio-Environmental Inequalities
AUTHORS:
Marc Parés
KEYWORDS:
Urban Regeneration; Governance; Urban Political Ecology; Environmental Justice; Sustainable Communities
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Geosciences,
Vol.4 No.6B,
August
22,
2013
ABSTRACT: In this article we use
the Urban Political Ecology approach to show that by analysing governance networks we can
better understand the production of certain socio-environmental transformations
that negatively affect some social groups while benefiting others. Drawing upon
two case studies in the UK, the article explores the dialectical relationships
between different modes of urban governance on one hand and the
socio-environmental transformations fulfilled in each case study on the other
hand. The article concludes that although urban regeneration policies are
always constrained by the neoliberal established framework of power relations,
policy outputs and outcomes could be very different from one place to another,
shaping uneven socio-environmental constructions. Finally, we make some
recommendations in order to stimulate the production of more sustainable
communities in the future.