Dr. Carmen Perez del Pulgar

Thematic Area Environment and Society
Department of Environmental Politics
Working Group Urban and Regional Research


Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany

carmen.ppulgar@ufz.de

Dr. C. Perez del Pulgar Frowein

I am a social environmental scientist conducting research at the intersection of urban geography, political ecology and socio-technical transition studies. My current work focuses on the political ecology of urban sustainable mobility transitions. I explore how these transitions emerge and are maintained, examining the influence of accumulated crisis and conflicts; the connection between mobility practices and power structures in society and the places of extraction -both urban and non-urban- that underpin urban mobility transitions. From 2016-2021 I was a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) and of the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ) at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) in Spain. My doctoral research investigated the political and social production of green-playful infrastructures in cities and its implications for wellbeing. I hold a MSc in Human Geography from the Universiteit van Amsterdam and a Bachelor in Political Science from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Areas of Expertise & Research

  • Sustainable Mobility Transitions
  • Urban Political Ecology
  • Green & Child Friendly Infrastructure in Cities
  • Planetary Urbanization
  • Justice and Wellbeing

Current Project

Identifying key factors that make sustainable mobility transitions last – An analysis of urban mobility changes initiated during COVID-19 lockdowns (VW Foundation)

Publications

  • Perez-del-Pulgar, Carmen; Isabelle Anguelovski and James JT Connolly 2024 Child-friendly urban practices as emergent place-based neoliberal subjectivation? Urban Studies
  • Kopp, Mira and Pérez del Pulgar, Carmen 2024 Overestimated environmental benefits of short-term changes in mobility behaviour: The case of Berlin during COVID-19. Sustainable Cities and Society 101, 105-137
  • Anguelovski, Isabelle; Oscilowicz, Emilia; Connolly, James; García-Lamarca, Melissa; Perez-del-Pulgar, Carmen; Cole, Helen VS; Immergluck, Dan 2024 Does greening generate exclusive residential real estate development? Contrasting experiences from North America and Europe. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 101 (2024): 128376.
  • Lewartowska, Emilia, Anguelovski, Isabelle; Oscilowicz, Emilia; Triguero‐Mas, Margarita; Cole, Helen; Shokry, Galia; Pérez‐del‐Pulgar, Carmen and Connolly, James 2024 Racial Inequity In Green Infrastructure And Gentrification: Challenging Compounded Environmental Racisms in the Green City. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 48 (2), 294-322
  • Rodgman, Mary Kathryn; Anguelovski, Isabelle; Perez-del-Pulgar, Carmen; Shokry, Galia ; Garcia-Lamarcaa, Melissa; Connolly, James, Baro, Francesc; Triguero-Mas, Margarita 2023 Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants Ecosystem Services
  • Oscilowicz, Emilia; Anguelovski, Isabelle; García-Lamarca, Melissa; Cole, Helen VS; Shokry, Galia; Perez-del-Pulgar, Carmen; Argüelles, Lucía and Connolly, James JT 2023 Grassroots mobilization for a just, green urban future: Building community infrastructure against green gentrification and displacement. Journal of Urban Affairs: 1-34.
  • Planas Carbonell, Aina; Anguelovski, Isabelle; Oscilowicz, Emilia; Pérez-del-Pulgar, Carmen; Shokry, Galia 2023 From greening the climate-adaptive city to green climate gentrification Mixed social effects and perceptions in Boston, Philadelphia, Amsterdam, Urban Climate 48
  • Sánchez-Valdivia, N., Pérez-del-Pulgar, C.; De Bont, J.; Anguelovski, I.; López-Gay, A.; Pistillo,A.; Triguero-Mas, M., Duarte-Salles, T. 2022. Residential Proximity to Urban Play Spaces and Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Barcelona, Spain: A Population-Based Longitudinal Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19(20)
  • Triguero-Mas, M; Anguelovski, I. Connolly, JJT.; Martin, N.; Matheney, A. Cole, H.; Pérez-Del-Pulgar, C. García-Lamarca, M. ; Shokry, G. Argüelles, L. Conesa, D.; Gallez, E. Sarzo, B.; Beltrán, M.A; López Máñez, J.; Martínez-Minaya, J. Oscilowicz, E., Arcaya, M.; Baró, F. 2022 Exploring green gentrification in 28 Global North cities: the role of urban parks and other types of greenspace. Environmental Research Letters
  • Baró, F. Camacho, D., Perez-del-Pulgar, C. Ruiz-Mallén, I. García-Serrano, P. 2022 "Nature-based solutions in European schools: a pioneering co-designed strategy towards urban climate resilience", in Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, Hug March, Mar Satorras (Eds.) Urban resilience to climate emergency: Unravelling the transformative potential of institutional and grassroots initiatives, Springer https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-07301-4#toc
  • Anguelowvski, Isabelle; Connolly, James J T; Cole, Helen V. S.; Garcia-Lamarca, Melissa; Triguero-Mas, Margarita; Baró, Francesc; Martin, Nicholas; Conesa, David; Shokry, Galia; Pérez del Pulgar, Carmen; Argüelles Ramos, Lucia; Matheney, Austin; Gallez, Elsa; Oscilowicz, Emilia; Máñez, Jésua López; Sarzo, Blanca; Beltrán, Miguel Angel; Minaya, Joaquin Martinez 2022. Green gentrification in European and North American cities. Nature communications, 13.
  • García-Lamarca, Melissa, Anguelovski, Isabelle; Cole, Helen VS; Connolly, James JT; Pérez-del-Pulgar, Carmen; Shokry,  Galia and Triguero-Mas, Margarita 2022. Urban green grabbing: Residential real estate developers discourse and practice in gentrifying Global North neighborhoods. Geoforum 128: 1-10
  • Pérez del Pulgar, Carmen, 2022 “Dismantling the Just City: The unevenness of green experiences in Amsterdam-Noord”. In Anguelovski, I. (Ed) The Green City and Social Injustice: 21 Tales from North America and Europe, Routledge
  • Pérez del Pulgar, Carmen, 2022 “Prioritizing green and social goals: The progressive Vienna “model” in jeopardy”. In Anguelovski, I. (Ed.) The Green City and Social Injustice: 21 Tales from North America and Europe, Routledge
  • Matheney, Austin, Pérez del Pulgar, Carmen and Shokry, Galia 2022. "A green capital for all?: Austerity, inequalities and green space in Bristol." In Anguelovski, I. (Ed.) The Green City and Social Injustice: 21 Tales from North America and Europe, Routledge
  • Anguelovski, I., Cole, H.V., O'Neill, E., Baró, F., Kotsila, P., Sekulova, F., Perez del Pulgar, C, Shokry, G., García-Lamarca, M., Argüelles, L. and Connolly, J.J., 2021. Gentrification pathways and their health impacts on historically marginalized residents in Europe and North America: Global qualitative evidence from 14 cities. Health & Place, 72
  • Pérez-del-Pulgar, Carmen; Anguelovski, Isabelle; Cole, Helen V. S.; de Bont, Jeroen; Connolly, James; Baró, Francesc; Díaz, Yesika; Fontán-Vela, Mario; Duarte-Salles; Talita Triguero-Mas, Margarita 2021, The relationship between residential proximity to outdoor play spaces and children’s mental and behavioral health: the importance of neighborhood socio-economic characteristics. Environmental Research 200
  • Triguero-Mas, Margarita; Anguelovski, Isabelle; García-Lamarca, Melissa; Argüelles, Lucía; Pérez del Pulgar, Carmen; Shokry, Galia; Connolly, James J.T.; Cole, Helen V.S., 2021, Natural outdoor environments’ health effects in gentrifying neighborhoods: disruptive green landscapes for underprivileged neighborhood residents, Social Science and Medicine 279
  • Cole, Helen V. S.; Anguelovski, Isabelle; Connolly, James J. T.; Garcia Lamarca, Melissa; Pérez del Pulgar, Carmen; Shokry, Galia; Triguero-Mas, Margarita, 2021. Adapting the Environmental Risk Transition Theory for Urban Health Inequities: An observational study examining complex environmental riskscapes in seven neighborhoods in Global North cities, Social Science and Medicine 277.
  • Baró, Francesc; Camacho, David A.; Perez del Pulgar, Carmen; Triguero-Mas Margarita; Anguelovski Isabelle, 2021, School greening: right or privilege? Examining urban nature within and around primary schools through an equity lens, Landscape and Urban Planning 208
  • Cole, Helen; Isabelle, Anguelovski; Baró, Francesc; García-Lamarca, Melissa; Kotsila, Panagiota; Pérez del Pulgar, Carmen; Shokry, Galia; Triguero-Mas, Margarita. 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic: power and privilege, gentrification, and urban environmental justice in the global north. Cities & Health: 1-5
  • Anguelovski, Isabelle; Brand, Anna Livia; Connolly, James J. T.; Corbera, Esteve; Kotsila, Panagiota; Steil, Justin; Garcia-Lamarca, Melissa; Triguero-Mas, Margarita; Cole, Helen; Baró, Francesc ; Langemeyer, Johannes ; Pérez del Pulgar, Carmen; Shokry, Galia ; Sekulova, Filka; Argüelles-Ramos, Lucia 2020 Expanding the Boundaries of Justice in Urban Greening Scholarship: Toward an Emancipatory, Antisubordination, Intersectional, and Relational Approach. Annals of the American Association of Geographers: 1-27.
  • Perez del Pulgar, Carmen; Anguelovski, Isabelle; Connolly, James 2020 Toward a green and playful city: Understanding the social and political production of children's relational wellbeing in Barcelona, Cities 96
  • Garcia-Lamarca, Melissa; Anguelovski, Isabelle; Cole, Helen; Connolly, James JT; Argüelles, Lucía; Baró, Francesc; Loveless, Stephanie; Pérez del Pulgar Frowein, Carmen; Shokry, Galia 2019 Urban green boosterism and city affordability: For whom is the ‘branded’ green city? Urban Studies
  • Anguelovski, Isabelle, Triguero-Mas Margarita; Connolly, James JT; Kotsila, Panagiota; Shokry, Galia; Pérez Del Pulgar, Carmen; Garcia-Lamarca, Melissa 2019 Gentrification and health in two global cities: a call to identify impacts for socially-vulnerable residents. Cities & Health 1-10
  • Cole, Helen; Shokry, Galia; Connolly, James; Pérez del Pulgar, Carmen; Alonso, Jordi; Anguelovski, Isabelle. 2017 Can Healthy Cities be made really healthy? The Lancet Public Health 2 (9), 394-395
  • Richter, C.; Taylor, L.; Jameson, S. and Perez del Pulgar, C. 2017 “Who are the end-use(r)s of smart cities? A synthesis of conversations in Amsterdam”. In Kitchin, R. (Ed.) Creating Smart Cities. Routledge