Resilient Cities in a Changing World AMPS | City, University of London Page 1 CLIMATE GENTRIFICATION PATHWAYS AND RESILIENCE: POLICY AND PLANNING DISCOURSES IN MIAMI Author: SERENA HOERMANN Affiliation: FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY, USA INTRODUCTION Cities are responding to climate impacts, and people are feeling pressured to move. Climate gentrification scholarship can illuminate shifting investment patterns associated with displacement pressures that threaten resilience. This critical discourse analysis asks, how might resilience policy and planning play a role in climate gentrification pathways? Using the case of Little Haiti, Miami, I suggest expanding a climate gentrification framework to assist policy makers in understanding the interplay of economic and social factors, as well as policy impacts, facilitating more nuanced solutions. A combination of socioeconomic factors plus climate change impacts and responses may translate to direct and indirect displacement pressures. Climate gentrification (CG) theory predicts shifting urban or regional development patterns toward areas of lower risk or lower cost and accompanying shifts in property values.1 People in gentrifying areas may experience reduced access to familiar goods and services or shifting cultural identity, among other social and health impacts.2 Access to jobs, schools, and social capital may be impacted.3 Low-income, underrepresented, and immigrant persons tend to bear disproportionate climate and climate policy impacts including displacement.4 Little Haiti, Miami serves as an illustrative case for study because the community faces direct and indirect displacement pressures, repeating patterns of segregation and marginalization,5 as a massive scale development project threatens housing affordability and cultural identity. In this project, I aim to spotlight potential drivers and impacts of community displacement, including loss of social capital, heritage, and economic and spatial stability, especially in ethnic enclaves. First, I propose an expanded view of the CG pathways. Then, I highlight the methodology of critical discourse analysis applied to the case of Little Haiti to explore CG pathways. In this study, I examine institutional and community discourse. Finally, I share the findings and implications for scholarship and policy. EXPANDING CG PATHWAYS In its original definition, gentrification refers to the transition of a neighborhood due to an influx of investment.6 Neighborhood changes, including the loss of social connections, transformed public facilities, transportation patterns, and support services, can produce the pressure of displacement in advance of an actual move.7 Resource displacement can stimulate other kinds of displacement, such as loss of sense of place.8 The concept of gentrification expanded to include “other/new forms of social upgrading, other/new actors and other/new spaces.”9 Gentrification includes potential residential,
