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ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C-GOVERNMENT AND POLICY
Volume 28, Issue 5, Pages 872-886Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1068/c08126
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Although urban sustainability programs frequently include measures that focus on the environmental and economic components of sustainability, the social dimension of sustainability remains underrepresented. An analytical vulnerability approach from global change vulnerability research provides one way to evaluate the distributional impacts and procedural aspects of sustainability initiatives. I apply the vulnerability approach to a study of one contemporary sustainability initiative in New York City, brownfield redevelopment, and identify populations who are vulnerable to the negative impacts of the redevelopment process: elderly residents, renters, and residents receiving government assistance. The results of the case study suggest that the vulnerability approach provides a way to develop indicators of social sustainability for inclusion in existing urban sustainability indicator projects.
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