Urban Blue Justice
Urban Blue Justice is a UvA-funded research project that examines how climate justice materializes in cities, particularly in relation to urban blue spaces.
A view of the eastern wetlands in Mumbai. Image by Lekha Samant.
Water, its excess (floods) and absence (droughts), shapes and reshapes urban experience, sometimes in unexpected terms. Such transformations are particularly tangible in urban blue spaces – here defined as urban areas adjacent to surface water bodies (salt, fresh and brackish) – where risks, vulnerabilities, and value entwine to produce a complex landscape of urban living, planning, development, and governance.
The project aims to locate climate justice, conceptually and empirically, in the ordinary adaptation practices of professionals and citizens working and living at the margins of urban waters in the Global North and South. The project will compare cases from cities in the Global North (e.g. Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Lisbon) with cities in the Global South (Mumbai, Accra, Porto Alegre). The project is a joint endeavour of researchers in the Urban Planning research group and the Governance and Inclusive Development research group.
Funding
University of Amsterdam
