Urban Green Spaces, New Forms of Participation, and New Protagonists: From Crisis to (Re)Centralization
The chapter “Urban Green Spaces, New Forms of Participation, and New Protagonists: From Crisis to (Re)Centralization”, authored by the researcher Diogo Guedes Vidal is now available in the volume Composing Worlds: Humanities, Health and Wellbeing in the XXI Century Towards a More Sustainable World, part of the renowned World Sustainability Series (Springer).
Diogo examined how urban green spaces function as contested arenas for environmental and social justice, shaped by relations of power, class, culture, and gender. Through two case studies, hr explored how these spaces enable new forms of participation and activate new protagonists in the quest for socio-ecological transformation. In the face of intersecting social, ecological and climate crises, he argues that green spaces are key to imagining and building more equitable urban futures and public policies.
Chapter available: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-87108-5_20
Vidal, D. G., Lopes, H. S., & Maia, R. L. (2025). Urban Green Spaces, New Forms of Participation, and New Protagonists: From Crisis to (Re)Centralization. Em W. Leal Filho, H. S. Lopes, M. P. Lencastre, R. Estrada, & D. Vidal (Eds.), Composing Worlds: Humanities, Health and Wellbeing in the XXI Century Towards a More Sustainable World (pp. 325–348). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-87108-5_20