Organized Oral Session
Monika Shankar
Doctoral Student
University of California-Los Angeles, United States
Tamika Butler
Doctoral Student
University of California-Los Angeles, United States
Cities are complex systems that have broad-ranging and multi-scalar impacts on the physical, biological and human ecosystems within their boundaries. From reducing poverty and enhancing access to economic, social and cultural opportunities, to the proliferation of environmental pollutants and the urban heat island effect, urban growth has manifested in both burdens and benefits to city dwellers and nature. The social-ecological systems framework is useful in unearthing the multitude of factors that shape the city, the various scales at which these factors operate, and the resource pathways that are regulated by ecological and social systems. An important and emerging dimension in the analysis of urban social-ecological systems is structural racism and classism, which can be defined as conscious and unconscious biases and stereotypes that shape institutional policies, which consequently drive and exacerbate racists and classist developments in urban systems. This includes residential segregation, gentrification, unequal resource allocation, amongst others (Schell et al., 2020). This panel presentation explores various local case studies with the intent to elaborate the ways in which the underlying systems of racism and classism impact particular aspects of the urban social-ecological system. Specifically, panelists will look at housing segregation, land use and zoning, oil extraction, and green infrastructure. In doing so, we hope to advance an understanding of the city as a space to foster an ecology of environmental and social justice.
Presenting Author: Monika Shankar – University of California-Los Angeles
Co-author: Brittney Lu – UCLA
Co-author: Tamika Butler – University of California-Los Angeles
Presenting Author: Tamika Butler – University of California-Los Angeles
Co-author: Brittney Lu – UCLA
Co-author: Monika Shankar – University of California-Los Angeles
Presenting Author: Dustin L. Herrmann – TreePeople
Co-author: Mary Hillemeier – TreePeople
Co-author: Shona Paterson – University of California - Los Angeles
Co-author: Manny Gonez – TreePeople
Presenting Author: Wendy Miranda Arevalo – Esperanza Community Housing Corporation
Presenting Author: Venezia Ramirez – University of Southern California's Division of Environmental Health
Co-author: Fushcia-Ann Hoover, PhD, MSE, BSME – University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Co-author: Dustin Dustin Hermann – TreePeople
Co-author: Tamika Butler – University of California-Los Angeles
Co-author: Brittney Lu – UCLA
Co-author: Monika Shankar – University of California-Los Angeles
Co-author: Wendy Miranda Arevalo – Esperanza Community Housing Corporation
Presenting Author: Fushcia-Ann Hoover, PhD, MSE, BSME – University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Co-author: Rachel Scarlett, PhD – Smith Fellowship