Climate Justice & Community Planner

Knowledge Mobilization Expert

Project Manager

Research Affiliations

College of Architecture & Planning

(University of Colorado - Denver)

Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice & Sustainability (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)

School of Community and Regional Planning

(University of British Columbia)

Full Academic CV

Research Interests

Policy & Planning Tools for Urban Green Justice

How can planners, policy-makers, and community leaders promote greening and sustainability while also maintaining justice, equity, and inclusivity?

Published articles:

Green Justice through Policy and Practice: A Call for Further Research into Tools That Foster Healthy Green Cities for All. Cities & Health, May (2022)

Published reports:

Policy and Planning Tools for Urban Green Justice. (March 2021)

Children & Green Space Equity

How does the greening of neighborhood playgrounds affect resident children & families?

Published articles:

Young Families and Children in Gentrifying Neighbourhoods: How Gentrification Reshapes Use and Perception of Green Play Spaces.” Local Environment 25 (10): 765–86

Intersectional Equity & Climate Justice

How do planning practitioners consider equity in climate action plans?

Green Gentrification

Is greening catalyst to exclusion and segregation in global cities? What are the responses from local residents to top-down urban greening interventions?

Published articles:

From Greening the Climate-Adaptive City to Green Gentrification? Short-Lived Benefits and Mixed Social Effects in Boston, Philadelphia, Amsterdam and Barcelona." Urban Climate 48 (2023): 101295.
Exploring green gentrification in 28 Global North cities: the role of urban parks and other types of greenspace." Environmental Research Letters (2022).
Green gentrification in European and North American cities”. Nature Communications 13(1): 3816 (2022)
Gentrification pathways and their health impacts on historically marginalized residents in Europe and North America: Global qualitative evidence from 14 cities." Health & Place 72 (2021): 102698.

Book chapters:

Enacting Just Urban Green Futures: Promising Policy and Planning Tools and Regulations for Europe and North America for the Green City. In: I. Anguelovski and J. Connolly, eds., The Green City and Social Injustice 21 Tales from North America and Europe, 1st ed. : Routledge.

Multimedia:

The Green Divide » Interactive Documentary Film
ArcGIS Storymap Collection » Barcelona Urban Environmental Injustices Online Map
Visualizing Gentrification and Greening through Storymapping of Washington DC, Atlanta, Barcelona, Dublin, and Nantes » ArcGIS Storymap Collection