Moving urban political ecology beyond the ‘urbanization of nature’ [PDF]
Progress in Human Geography, 2021 Urban political ecology (UPE) focuses on unsettling traditional understandings of ‘cities’ as ontological entities separate from ‘nature’ and on how the production of settlements is metabolically linked with flows of capital and more-than-human ecological processes.
Maria Kaika, Roger Keil, Tait Mandler
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Urban Political Ecology. Great Promises, Deadlock… and New Beginnings?
Documents d'Anàlisi Geogràfica, 2014 The paper starts from the premise that it is vitally important to recognize that the rapid rate of planetary urbanization is the main driver of environmental change.
Erik Swyngedouw, Maria Kaika
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Urban political ecology in prospect and retrospect
Sub\urban, 2021 The contemporary theorization of the urban biosphere has reached something of an impasse between the perceived limitations of urban political ecology, the neo-Lefebvrian emphasis on global patterns of urbanization, and the rise of “new materialisms ...
Matthew Gandy
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Political Ecology of Urban Agricultural Pollution
Ecology, Economy and Society – The INSEE Journal, 2023 The Yamuna khadar or the floodplains of the river Yamuna in Delhi is a deeply contested agrarian space. While thousands have been involved in farming these floodplains for decades, contestations over their legality, compensation, land use, displacement,
Rajat Kumar
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Speculative Political Ecologies: (re)imagining urban futures of climate extremes
Journal of Political Ecology, 2023 What role can a speculative political ecology play in (re)imaging urban futures of climate extremes? In recent years, narratives of dystopian futures of climate extremes have proliferated in geosciences, and across the media and creative arts.
Elisa Savelli +3 more
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Contributions of Urban Political Ecology to sustainable drainage transitions
Documents d'Anàlisi Geogràfica, 2022 This article aims to demonstrate how critical urban geography and Urban Political Ecology (UPE) can provide analytical tools to fully incorporate the social dimension in Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS), overcoming ageographical and ...
Andrea Nóblega-Carriquiry
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Identification and Structural Analysis of the Effect of Key Drivers of Political Ecology on the Prevalence of Infectious Diseases and Covid 19; Case Study: Ahvaz Metropolis [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish/hā-yi Rāhburdī-i Siyāsat, 2022 Cities are a source of creativity and technology and engines for economic growth. cities are also a source of poverty, inequality and environmental health risks.
Mohammad Reza Amiri fahlyiani +2 more
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An urban political ecology of Bangkok's awful traffic congestion
Journal of Political Ecology, 2020 Urban political ecology (UPE) can contribute important insights to examine traffic congestion, a significant social and environmental problem underexplored in UPE. Specifically, by attending to power relations, the production of urban space, and cultural
Danny Marks
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Affect and emotion in urban political ecology
Investigaciones Geográficas, 2018 In the last 20 years there has been a turn toward the emotional and affective in contemporary social theory and in human geography, including urban political ecology.
Jacob C. Miller
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Reading History and Power in Urban Landscapes: The Lens of Urban Political Ecology
Ecology, Economy and Society – The INSEE Journal, 2018 This essay sketches some of these features and their implications, employing five intersecting rubrics—hybrids, boundaries, histories, values, and peripheries.
Karen Coelho
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