Urban Ecology in the Time of Climate Change: Houston, Flooding, and the Case of Federal Buyouts

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dc.citation.firstpage121en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber2en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleSocial Currentsen_US
dc.citation.lastpage140en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber6en_US
dc.contributor.authorLoughran, Kevinen_US
dc.contributor.authorElliott, James R.en_US
dc.contributor.authorKennedy, S. Wrighten_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-14T14:28:42Zen_US
dc.date.available2019-10-14T14:28:42Zen_US
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study proposes a shift in sociology’s approach to urban ecology. Rather than foreground the social ecologies that captivated the Chicago and Los Angeles Schools, we join and extend more recent efforts to engage environmental ecologies that successively intersect with those social ecologies over time. To ground our approach, we focus on areas of urban flooding where federally subsidized buyouts of residential properties have occurred over recent decades. Drawing on data from Houston, Texas, we locate where these buyout zones have emerged and how their social ecologies have changed in ways that feed back to influence the number of local buyouts that occur. Results indicate that Houston’s buyout zones have an identifiable social ecology that has shifted over time, primarily from white to Hispanic working-class settlement as the city has grown and become more racially and ethnically diverse. Results also show that the extent to which this racial succession has occurred powerfully predicts subsequent numbers of buyouts in the area. Implications for developing an enhanced urban ecology for the twenty-first century are discussed.en_US
dc.identifier.citationLoughran, Kevin, Elliott, James R. and Kennedy, S. Wright. "Urban Ecology in the Time of Climate Change: Houston, Flooding, and the Case of Federal Buyouts." <i>Social Currents,</i> 6, no. 2 (2019) Sage: 121-140. https://doi.org/10.1177/2329496518797851.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/2329496518797851en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/107448en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSageen_US
dc.rightsThis is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by the Southern Sociological Society.en_US
dc.subject.keywordcommunity and urban sociologyen_US
dc.subject.keywordenvironment and technologyen_US
dc.subject.keywordracial and ethnic minoritiesen_US
dc.titleUrban Ecology in the Time of Climate Change: Houston, Flooding, and the Case of Federal Buyoutsen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
dc.type.publicationpost-printen_US
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