ABSTRACT

As cities strive to protect vulnerable residents from climate risks and impacts, recent studies have identified a challenging link between these measures and gentrification processes that reconfigure, but do not necessarily eliminate, climate insecurities. Green resilient infrastructure (GRI) may especially increase the vulnerability of lower income communities of color to gentrification, an issue that remains underexplored. Drawing on the forerunner green city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as our case study, this article adopts a novel intersectional approach to assess overlapping and interdependent factors in generating vulnerability and resilience using spatial quantitative data and qualitative interviews with community-based organizers, nonprofits, and municipal stakeholders. More specifically, this article develops a new methodology to assess vulnerability to future climate gentrification and contributes to debates on the role of urban development, housing, and sustainability practices in climate justice dynamics. It also informs strategies that can reduce social and racial inequities in the context of climate adaptation planning.

摘要

随着城市努力保护弱势居民免受气候风险和影响，最近的研究已经确定了这些措施与重新配置但不一定消除气候不安全性的高档化进程之间的挑战性联系。绿色弹性基础设施 (GRI) 可能会增加低收入有色人种社区对高档化的脆弱性，这一问题仍未得到充分探索。本文以宾夕法尼亚州费城的先驱绿色城市作为我们的案例研究，采用一种新颖的交叉方法，利用空间定量数据和对社区组织者、非营利组织和市政利益相关者。进一步来说，本文开发了一种新方法来评估未来气候高档化的脆弱性，并有助于就城市发展、住房和可持续性实践在气候正义动态中的作用进行辩论。它还为可以在气候适应规划背景下减少社会和种族不平等的战略提供信息。