Centering Community Perspectives to Advance Recognitional Justice for Sustainable Cities: Lessons from Urban Forest Practice

This study exposes several complex socio-political challenges affecting steward engagement in community-led tree initiatives and the broader pursuit of environmental justice, including discriminatory urban planning practices, gentrification concerns, underrepresentation of Black and Latinx voices in decision-making, volunteer-based tree-planting models, and tree life cycle costs. 

Grant, A., Edge, S., Millward, A., Teelucksingh, C., & Roman, L.(2024). Centering community perspectives to advance recognitional justice for sustainable cities: Lessons from urban forest practice. Sustainability, 16(12): 4915.

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