2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
5/25/2021 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Green Infrastructure Justice in Stormwater Management Planning | Virtual Platform
Green Infrastructure Justice in Stormwater Management Planning
Despite the heavy management, regulation and monitoring of urban streams, socio-ecological research often fails to engage the way these hydrologic processes are driven by social processes. Social inequalities like racism shapes the different forms of access to and management of our waterscapes. White stakeholders, land managers, planners and engineers are labeled as the experts and enlisted as the primary decision-makers, while Indigenous, Black and other residents or communities of color are left out or only marginally involved in decision-making processes. I examined the criteria used to locate green infrastructure (GI), and whether they engage with justice. Of 119 plans studied, siting criteria was driven by stormwater related management metrics such as combined sewer outfall locations or known flooding, passive community engagement, and cost saving measures. While considered objective or benign siting mechanisms, they are in fact embedded in racist social processes. The inclusion of environmental justice as a framework allows us to pierce through the veil of white supremacy and examine the metrics for what they are, while opening up new possibilities for thinking about aquatic systems, and who holds valuable insight and perspectives regarding their management.
- Equity
- Socio-ecological systems
- Nature-based solutions
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Fushcia-Ann Hoover
(), National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, fhoover@umd.edu;
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