Climate justice in future cities: geographical perspectives for inclusive urban resilience and adaptation

The Climate Justice Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, that has been funded with support from the European Commission, responds to the need of bringing the issues of Climate Justice and just transition recognized in the EU Green Deal framework into the dialogue between the academic world, society and policy makers. The Centre works as hub generating, exchanging and gathering scientific knowledge, practices, expertise on EU climate justice policies at International, European, National and local level among research, institutions, civil society.

Programme:

The Conference will be articulated in two parts that include moments of presentation and discussion:

Part 1

“Advancing climate justice through participatory mapping: green and blue infrastructure planning for adaptation to climate-induced floods in Thorncliffe Park, Toronto”, Niloofar Mohtat (University of Waterloo)

“Materialization of the green city bonds for water infrastructure, analysis with an intersectional climate justice perspective”, Héctor Herrera (Institute of Development Policy (IO

Borning cities in the climate crisis: mapping refugee camps by an open GIS-based workflow, Sonny Masoni (Advanced Master GIScience and UAV, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (ICEA), University of Padua)

The Coast isn’t Clear: Climate Justice Implications of Communicating Urban Flood Risk in Affluent Vulnerable Communities, Sara Bonati (Università degli studi di Firenze)

Monitoring Heat Waves and Urban Heat Islands for Inclusive Mitigation Strategies: A Case Study in the Municipality of Padua (Italy), Valeria Todeschi (Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (ICEA), University of Padua)

Part 2

Relational values of urban green spaces in Milan, Stefania Benetti (Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

Urban Resilience Assessment: Framework, Criteria, and Adaptation of Thermal Comfort for Urban Parks in Asian, Szu-Hung Chen (National Chung Hsing University)

Food Justice for Future Cities – a Visual Mapping of Urban Food Systems from a Feminist Geographic Perspective, Birgit Hoinle (University of Hohenheim)

A climate justice approach to urbanisation processes in the South, Manuel Bayón Jiménez (Colectivo de Geografía Crítica del Ecuador)

Extreme Citizen Science for Climate Justice: mapping populated centers affected from gas flaring in the Ecuadorian Amazon Region, Francesco Facchinelli (Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padova)

Oil development and urban jungles in Ecuadorian Amazon: expansion and territorial changes in “El Coca”, Daniele Codato (Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Climate Justice, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padova)

Moderators

• Massimo De Marchi (DICEA, University of Padua and Academic Coordinator of the Climate Justice Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence)
• Salvatore Pappalardo (DICEA – University of Padua, CJ Researcher and Member of Scientific Committee)
• Francesca Peroni (Member of Scientific Committee of the Climate Justice Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence)

Keynote speaker

Michael Goodchild (University of Santa Barbara, US) – Role in the project, if needed:

• “Climate justice in the city: perspectives from GIScience and Voluntereed Geography”. He is the foremost expert in Geographic Information Science, as the science of collecting, analysing, digitising and using geographic data: from satellite navigation systems in cars and town planning to flood prevention and managing disease outbreaks, as well as the emerging IoT. He conied Voluntereed Geography and the concept of “Citizens as sensors”.

Part 1

• Niloofar Mohtat (University of Waterloo)
• Sonny Masoni (Advanced Master GIScience and UAV, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (ICEA), University of Padua)
• Sara Bonati (Università degli studi di Firenze)
• Valeria Todeschi (Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (ICEA), University of Padua)

Part 2

• Stefania Benetti (Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)
• Manuel Bayón Jiménez (Colectivo de Geografía Crítica del Ecuador)
• Francesco Facchinelli (Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padova)
• Daniele Codato (Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Climate Justice, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padova)