Whose Green City? Contested Urban Green Spaces and Environmental Justice in Northern Europe

Bianka Plüschke-Altof is Researcher in Environmental Sociology at the School of Natural Sciences and Health at Tallinn University and Lecturer in Qualitative Research at the University of Tartu. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Tartu and an undergraduate in Social Sciences from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research concentrates on questions of socio-spatial and environmental justice, with specific focus on Central-Eastern Europe. As part of the research group on “Human-nature interactions in the city” at Tallinn University she investigates urban (green space) planning for sustainability, the governance of urban gardening, and environmental activism.

Helen Sooväli-Sepping is a Professor in Environmental Management at Tallinn University and Vice-Rector at Tallinn University of Technology, with specific focus on the organization’s green transition. She holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Tartu in Estonia. Her research lies in the field of environmental studies in urban space (participatory planning, urban green commons, sustainable mobility), and cultural geography (especially heritage culture, cultural sustainability, landscape imaginary). She leads the research group on “Human-nature interactions in the city” at Tallinn University