De Tymowski, Laure
(2024)
WHOSE CLIMATE-PROOF CITY?
A river-led, catchment-based critical assessment
of climate justice in South Dublin.
PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Abstract
The expansion of urban green and climate policy of the last decades in many regions
of the world has been increasingly called out for dramatically reinforcing existing
urban inequities. Many urban justice scholars have documented how these
inequities are produced through non-inclusive procedural and epistemic governance:
a tight control over who makes decisions and who produces knowledge in urban
green and climate development results in further unjust urban environmental
arrangements.
Building on these findings, the present PhD research project assesses how climate
inequities unfold in South Dublin: it asks whose environmental concerns and
knowledges count in the making of the climate-proof city. Taking as a starting point
one South Dublin river, the river Poddle, it critically assesses four climate change
adaptation and mitigation projects to be implemented in its catchment and involving
a wide range of public and private stakeholders: a planned flood alleviation scheme,
an Amazon data centre powered district heating scheme, two inner-city redensification
initiatives and, finally, a combined river greening and sustainable food
production project.
Grounded in a qualitative, inductive methodology approach and drawing on main
feminist epistemologies assumptions, the collection and assessment of data
pertaining to the four climate projects are conducted through three research
methods: walking with the river Poddle, semi-structured interviews and discourse
analysis. Findings are consistent with the existing literature on the neoliberalization
of urban environmental governance: all four climate projects are found to be heavily
private actor, private market driven and as such leading to intensified social and
environmental inequities. The privatization of climate governance is largely
facilitated by state and local government tight control over decision-making and
knowledge production processes. In contrast, the present research project outlines
ways to locate and challenge the produced inequities through fairer human and
more-than-human spatial-epistemic arrangements.
| Item Type: |
Thesis
(PhD)
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| Keywords: |
river-led; catchment-based; critical assessment;
climate justice; South Dublin; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
| Item ID: |
19039 |
| Depositing User: |
IR eTheses
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| Date Deposited: |
15 Oct 2024 10:56 |
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| Use Licence: |
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