Gentrification in general refers to "a process in which a poor area (as of a city) experiences an influx of middle-class or wealthy people who renovate and rebuild homes and businesses and which often results in an increase in property values and the displacement of earlier, usually poorer residents" (1)
Green gentrification refers to processes started by the implementation of an environmental planning agenda related to green spaces that lead to the exclusion and displacement of politically disenfranchised residents. Environmental improvements tend to increase quality of life and property values – especially as urban environmental consciousness grows – pricing out vulnerable residents and drawing in new and wealthier residents. It therefore contributes to the reproduction of a condition of environmental injustice (environmental hazards and amenities being disproportionately distributed across neighborhoods) while espousing an environmental ethic...(2)
