Green Gentrification: Urban Sustainability & the Struggle for Environmental Justice
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Join the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center for a lively conversation about environmental justice and gentrification along the Brooklyn waterfront when professors Kenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis discuss their new book, Green Gentrification: Urban Sustainability and the Struggle for Environmental Justice. Their book explores the social consequences of urban “greening” from the perspective of environmental justice and sustainable development. Gould and Lewis will explain how “greening,” which is meant to improve environmental conditions in neighborhoods, generates a kind of gentrification that pushes out the very people it was meant to help.
Kenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis are professors of sociology at Brooklyn College and professors of sociology and of earth and environmental sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center. In addition to Green Gentrification, Professor Gould has co-authored several books including Environment and Society: The Enduring Conflict and the Treadmill of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy. Professor Lewis’s research has focused on sustainability in Latin America, where she was a Fulbright scholar. She is the author of several books including Ecuador’s Environmental Revolutions and co-author of Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology.
The Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center aims to raise awareness about critical issues facing Brooklyn’s waterfront through research, teaching, and public programming.