Title: "The lacking dimension of justice in urban ecosystem service research and practice – steps forward"
Speaker: Johannes Langemeyer, ICTA-UAB
Moderator/Discussant: Beatriz Rodríguez Labajos, ICTA-UAB
Date: Wednesday, 10th January 2018
Time: 12.30 h
Place: Z/023 ICTA-UAB
Abstract
The ecosystem service approach is gaining momentum in influencing the global urban policy agenda. Yet, notions of justice and equity remain widely marginal to the rapidly developing research on urban ecosystem services and its operationalization in policy and planning. Neglecting justice and equity, at a time when the ecosystem service approach is gaining societal and policy influence, may lead to unjust policies, and bares the risk to undermine the wider societal acceptance of the ecosystem service approach on the long-run. In this seminar I will introduce and discuss a conceptual framework linking the ecosystem service cascade model to interactional, participatory and distributional justice. I will further present an operationalization of this framework in practice, along a case study of urban green space planning in Barcelona. The presentation will end with a brief outlook on steps forward to weave considerations of equity and social justice into ecosystem service research, reporting back on a special session hosted at the Ecosystem Service Partnership conference in December 2017.
Bio
Johannes is a post-doctoral researcher at ICTA and the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM). His research is focusses on green infrastructure in cities with a specific focus on the representation of values and distribution of benefits through the lens of ecosystem services. Johannes is trained in geography (Humboldt University Berlin) and environmental science (JEMES) and holds a doctorate degree in Environmental Science and Technology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and in Sustainability Science from the Stockholm University (Stockholm Resilience Centre).
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