The Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability

http://www.bcnuej.org/
The Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability examines how we can create more just, resilient, healthy, and sustainable cities.

The Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ) was founded in partnership with the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and a research group from the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) in Barcelona. The lab develops novel research that builds on urban planning and policy, social inequality, and development studies. Our main emphasis is on the opportunities and challenges created by urban municipal, community, or private initiatives that enhance sustainability, equity, and health in cities.

Our research examines processes and dynamics that lead to more just, resilient, healthy, and sustainable cities, bringing together theory and methods from urban planning, public policy, urban and environmental sociology, urban geography and public health. Our studies analyze the extent to which urban plans and policy decisions contribute to more just, resilient, healthy, and sustainable cities, and how community groups in distressed neighborhoods contest the existence, creation, or exacerbation of environmental inequities as a result of urban (re)development processes and policies.