Cultivating climate justice: Green infrastructure and suburban disadvantage in Australia |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland, Australia;2. Griffith School of Environment, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University, Australia;3. Geography and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania, Australia;4. Information Analytics Specialist, Climate Planning, Australia;5. Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;1. School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia;2. Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, Melbourne, Australia;1. School of Social Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Morven Brown Building Room G16, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia;2. School of Geography, The University of Melbourne, 221 Bouverie St, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia;3. Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Architecture and Planning Building (Building 133), Parkville, VIC 3010, AUSTRALIA;4. Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, United Kingdom;1. CSIRO Land and Water Flagship, PMB 1, 107-121 Station Street, Aspendale, Victoria 3195, Australia;2. CSIRO Land and Water Flagship, Black Mountain Laboratories, Clunies Ross Street, Black Mountain, ACT 2601, Australia;1. 3MD Department, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Stevinweg 1, 2628, CN, Delft, the Netherlands;2. Department Water Management, Stevinweg 1, 2628, CN, Delft, the Netherlands;1. Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia;2. GHD Pty, Melbourne, Australia;3. Infrastructure Victoria, Melbourne, Australia;1. National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia;2. City of Melbourne, Council House 2, 240 Little Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Green infrastructure has recently risen to international prominence for its purported capacity to enhance urban sustainability, and particularly to modulate ambient temperatures in the context of climate change. We assess whether residents in a sub-tropical Australian city perceive green infrastructure as an effective climate adaptation response for reducing vulnerability to heat stress. Gold Coast City has pursued urban densification policies, such as reducing block sizes and increasing building heights, to accommodate rapid population growth. Little attention has been given to the combined impact of local heat island effects and global climate change upon lower-income residents in the city's suburban fringe, including rising energy costs associated with cooling homes. The study has three aims: to assess whether social disadvantage is associated with (1) concern about climate change impacts; (2) perceptions about the potential of green infrastructure to offer potential climate-adaptive benefits; and (3) the desire for more urban greening in a working class suburb. We used a mail-back survey to elicit information related to cooling dwellings, awareness of, and concern about, climate change impacts, perceptions of the benefits of green infrastructure, and desire for more urban greening. Results indicate that despite their vulnerability to heat stress, comparatively disadvantaged residents are no more concerned about climate change; nor are they any more inclined to encourage local government to enhance neighbourhood greenery. These residents are, if anything, less likely to perceive benefits of urban greening. Our findings indicate that cultivating support for green infrastructure in disadvantaged neighbourhoods will require parallel efforts to redress inequality. |
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| Keywords: | Green infrastructure Inequality Climate justice Adaptation Planning Social disadvantage |
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