Safe City

Safe City

Neoliberal urbanism, entrepreneurial urbanism, sustainable development, right to nature

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 PhD Researcher in Islamic Urban Planning, Islamic Art University, Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
2 Department of Islamic Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Tabriz, Iran
Abstract
Neoliberalism as a set of policies considered by states over the last five decades, especially after the global financial crisis of 2008, has emerged in various social, economic, political, environmental, and physical fields and had positive and negative impacts. Neoliberal environment is a term that is used to refer to neoliberal policies in the environment, which due to their diversity, multiplicity and contradictions, it is difficult to present a list that is agreed upon by experts. For this reason, for the first time, the present study addressed the systematic meta-analysis of the articles related to the neoliberal environment, and then conceptualization of the most important policies mentioned by the researchers, and listed the consequences of the implementation of these policies. The study results showed that the policies of "entrepreneurial environment", "commodification of the environment", "financialization of the environment", "marketization of the environment" and "volunteering management" have been the most important policies in the field of environment, which have caused consequences such as "affecting sustainable development", "intensifying social inequality", "intensifying damage to the environment", "increasing environmental risks" and "emerging the right to nature movements".
 
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