Climate Gentrification: Methods, Gaps, and Framework for Future Research
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The topic of climate gentrification has been receiving increasing attention in both peer-reviewed literature and in popular discourse. Climate gentrification refers to the ways that climate impacts and adaptations may contribute to changes in community characteristics and potential displacement of vulnerable residents through changes in property values. Here, we conduct a review of the current literature on climate gentrification in order to understand methods and key themes, identify research gaps, and guide future research. Our search yielded a total of 12 relevant articles, beginning in 2018. After reviewing these articles, we identified several key methodological gaps including the lack of participatory methods, limited availability of longitudinal data, difficulty defining and measuring displacement, and challenges surrounding causality. We suggest that future work on climate gentrification should draw from Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS) theory to further understand the complex feedbacks that exist in climate gentrification dynamics. To guide future research, we propose a framework as a CHAN that highlights the multi-spatial, multi-temporal, and multi-faceted dimensions of climate gentrification.
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An emerging body of research has added to understanding of how climate impacts and adaptations may contribute to changes in community characteristics and potential displacement of vulnerable residents through interactions with social and economic drivers.
“Fortunately, an emerging body of research has added to our understanding of the ways that climate impacts and adaptations may contribute to changes in community characteristics and the potential displacement of vulnerable residents through interactions with social and economic drivers of displacement.246”
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Increasingly, studies assess the resilience investment pathway and further complicate the other pathways by recognizing that climate displacement is a complicated and dynamic process.
“Increasingly, studies assess the resilience investment pathway 246 and further complicate the other pathways by recognizing that climate displacement is a complicated and dynamic process.”
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- Authors
- Best, K., & Jouzi, Z.
- Affiliations
- Vanderbilt University (US)
- North Carolina State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Best, Kelsea
- Venue
- Frontiers in Climate
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2022-03-01
- Volume
- 4
- ISSN
- 2624-9553 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4214680841
- Cited by
- 33
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 6
- FWCI
- 8.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Frontiers in Climate (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1716909)
- Vanderbilt University
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Housing Market and Economics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Keywords
- climate gentrification, climate change adaptation, displacement, property values, vulnerable residents, participatory approach, longitudinal data, causality, coupled human-natural systems, research framework, community change
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