Community-led development and collective land tenure for environmental justice: the case of the Caño Martín Peña community land trust, Puerto Rico
Community-led land ownership can contribute to environmental justice in disaster-prone areas, particularly as it protects vulnerable communities from market-driven displacement often occurring after natural disasters. The article reviews literature linking the climate emergency with disaster resilie...
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| author | Mariangela Veronesi Line Algoed María E. Hernández Torrales |
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| description | Community-led land ownership can contribute to environmental justice in disaster-prone areas, particularly as it protects vulnerable communities from market-driven displacement often occurring after natural disasters. The article reviews literature linking the climate emergency with disaster resilience and collective land-based models. It brings into focus the case of the Caño Martín Peña communities in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where residents started a Community Land Trust (CLT) in Latin America and the Caribbean, resulting from an extensive process of community participation. We highlight the importance of this case as still one of the only CLT’s in the Global South, a mechanism not yet sufficiently understood as a highly developed instrument for secure land tenure and adaptation to climate change in the Global South. We analyse the mechanisms by which the CLT’s collective tenure model effectively ensures greater environmental justice – both regarding ongoing flooding issues, and specific extreme natural events such as hurricanes. Collective land ownership allows residents to remain in the area despite forces of gentrification and displacement after disasters induced by global warming. We conclude with a reflection on the need for similar land-based solutions, and summon public authorities to consider these as a route to effective environmental management. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e87184a6d1a04275b68b884517dbb4902023-09-21T15:28:41ZengTaylor & Francis GroupInternational Journal of Urban Sustainable Development1946-31381946-31462022-12-0114138839710.1080/19463138.2022.20966162096616Community-led development and collective land tenure for environmental justice: the case of the Caño Martín Peña community land trust, Puerto RicoMariangela Veronesi0Line Algoed1María E. Hernández Torrales2World HabitatCenter for Urban Research, Vrije Universiteit in BrusselsUniversity of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras CampusCommunity-led land ownership can contribute to environmental justice in disaster-prone areas, particularly as it protects vulnerable communities from market-driven displacement often occurring after natural disasters. The article reviews literature linking the climate emergency with disaster resilience and collective land-based models. It brings into focus the case of the Caño Martín Peña communities in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where residents started a Community Land Trust (CLT) in Latin America and the Caribbean, resulting from an extensive process of community participation. We highlight the importance of this case as still one of the only CLT’s in the Global South, a mechanism not yet sufficiently understood as a highly developed instrument for secure land tenure and adaptation to climate change in the Global South. We analyse the mechanisms by which the CLT’s collective tenure model effectively ensures greater environmental justice – both regarding ongoing flooding issues, and specific extreme natural events such as hurricanes. Collective land ownership allows residents to remain in the area despite forces of gentrification and displacement after disasters induced by global warming. We conclude with a reflection on the need for similar land-based solutions, and summon public authorities to consider these as a route to effective environmental management.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2022.2096616collective land tenurecommunity-led developmentdisaster resiliencedisaster displacementcommunity displacementenvironmental justicecommunity land trust |
| spellingShingle | Mariangela Veronesi Line Algoed María E. Hernández Torrales Community-led development and collective land tenure for environmental justice: the case of the Caño Martín Peña community land trust, Puerto Rico International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development collective land tenure community-led development disaster resilience disaster displacement community displacement environmental justice community land trust |
| title | Community-led development and collective land tenure for environmental justice: the case of the Caño Martín Peña community land trust, Puerto Rico |
| title_full | Community-led development and collective land tenure for environmental justice: the case of the Caño Martín Peña community land trust, Puerto Rico |
| title_fullStr | Community-led development and collective land tenure for environmental justice: the case of the Caño Martín Peña community land trust, Puerto Rico |
| title_full_unstemmed | Community-led development and collective land tenure for environmental justice: the case of the Caño Martín Peña community land trust, Puerto Rico |
| title_short | Community-led development and collective land tenure for environmental justice: the case of the Caño Martín Peña community land trust, Puerto Rico |
| title_sort | community led development and collective land tenure for environmental justice the case of the cano martin pena community land trust puerto rico |
| topic | collective land tenure community-led development disaster resilience disaster displacement community displacement environmental justice community land trust |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2022.2096616 |
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