Original
Housing tenure, climate resilience, and ecological segregation
Abstract
A key challenge to ensuring no one is left behind in the green transition lies in the persistent segregation of urban populations and the unequal distribution of environmental costs and benefits. Residential segregation has long reinforced socioeconomic and racialized disparities, and climate change introduces new dimensions to these injustices as adaptation policies increasingly shift financial and environmental burdens onto marginalized communities. While housing plays a central role in shaping exposure and resilience, the role of housing tenure—especially ownership arrangements beyond market logic—has received limited attention in just green transitions research. This study addresses this gap through a political ecology approach, combining spatial and policy analysis to examine the origins, distribution, and impacts of climate adaptation costs within Copenhagen’s not-for-profit housing sector. Focusing on Hørgården, a stigmatized neighborhood targeted by Denmark’s Parallel Society Law, the study shows how one-size-fits-all adaptation policies can inadvertently exacerbate existing urban inequalities. Findings highlight a missing link related to technomanagerialism, revealing how the interaction between housing tenure, segregation, and climate adaptation financing places disproportionate burdens on marginalized communities. The analysis identifies how institutional silos—particularly between technical and social policy domains—obscure structural drivers of inequality and produce uneven resilience outcomes. The paper offers a theoretical contribution by conceptualizing technomanagerialism as a critical yet overlooked mechanism of inequality within not-for-profit housing systems. It extends debates on climate burdens beyond market-based housing to demonstrate how inequalities become embedded even within ostensibly equitable systems, ultimately reinforcing patterns of urban segregation.
中文
住房权属、气候韧性与生态隔离
摘要
确保绿色转型中不让任何人掉队的一项关键挑战，在于城市人口持续存在的隔离以及环境成本与收益的不平等分配。居住隔离长期以来强化了社会经济和种族化差异，而随着适应政策日益将财政和环境负担转嫁给边缘化社区，气候变化为这些不公增添了新的维度。尽管住房在塑造暴露风险与韧性方面发挥核心作用，但住房权属——尤其是超越市场逻辑的产权安排——在公正绿色转型研究中所获关注有限。本研究通过政治生态学路径填补这一空白，结合空间分析与政策分析，考察哥本哈根非营利住房部门中气候适应成本的来源、分配与影响。研究聚焦于Hørgården——一个被丹麦《平行社会法》针对的污名化社区——表明一刀切的适应政策可能无意中加剧既有的城市不平等。研究发现凸显了与技术管理主义相关的缺失环节，揭示住房权属、隔离与气候适应融资之间的互动如何将不成比例的负担置于边缘化社区之上。分析识别出制度性孤岛——尤其是技术政策与社会政策领域之间的孤岛——如何遮蔽不平等的结构性驱动因素，并产生不均衡的韧性结果。本文作出理论贡献，将技术管理主义概念化为非营利住房体系中一个关键但被忽视的不平等机制。研究将气候负担的讨论扩展到基于市场的住房之外，表明不平等如何嵌入即便表面公平的体系之中，最终强化城市隔离模式。
关键词
住房权属、气候韧性、生态隔离、气候适应、城市不平等、非营利住房、政治生态学、技术管理主义