Civic environmentalism and urban renaturation politics : case studies from the greater Paris and New York City

Hugo Rochard (1, 2, 3)

1 LADYSS - Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces
2 LabEx DynamiTe - Laboratoire d'Excellence "Dynamiques Territoriales et Spatiales"
3 LIEPP - Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d'évaluation des politiques publiques (Sciences Po)

After being at the root of industrial development, the contemporary urban policy discourse is now characterized by a growing interest for environmental preservation and ecosystem services. Alternatively, citizens involved in ecological restoration and management on public spaces tend to be more and more valued. In the last 20 years, North American municipalities were among the first to favor environmental stewardship through community organizing. This thesis investigates different territorial inscriptions of civic environmentalism linked to renaturation practices in analogous urban contexts of the

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Géographie

Hugo Rochard. Civic environmentalism and urban renaturation politics : case studies from the greater Paris and New York City. Journée du LIEPP, Jun 2021, Paris, France. ⟨hal-03272060⟩