Climate justice and global cities: Mapping the emerging discourses

Bulkeley, Harriet; Carmin, JoAnn; Broto, Vanesa Castán; Edwards, Gareth A. S.; Fuller, Sara

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.05.010

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“…Another rationale for public responsibility is related to national security: in many countries, the construction and maintenance of dikes and levees and emergency planning are regarded as the responsibility of governments (Aakre & Rübbelke, 2010;Berkhout, 2005;Heltberg, Siegel, & Jorgensen, 2009;Osberghaus et al, 2010). Another rationale for public responsibility is fairness, by correcting for the distributional consequences of climate impacts and of adaptation action (Bulkeley, Carmin, Castán Broto, & Edwards, 2013;Marino & Ribot, 2012). Climate impacts are rather localized, leading to different impacts on different groups and localities (e.g.…”

Section: Public Versus Private Responsibilitiesmentioning

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Local governments in the driving seat? A comparative analysis of public and private responsibilities for adaptation to climate change in European and North-American cities

Mees

2016

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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The division of responsibilities between public and private actors has become a key governance issue for adaptation to climate change in urban areas. This paper offers a systematic, comparative analysis of three empirical studies which analysed how and why responsibilities were divided between public and private actors for the governance of local urban climate adaptation. For 20 governance arrangements in European and North-American cities, the divisions of responsibilities and the underlying rationales of actors for those divisions were analysed and compared. Data were gathered through content analysis of over 100 policy documents, 97 indepth interviews and 2 multi-stakeholder workshops. The comparative analysis reveals that local public authorities are the key actors, as they bear the majority of responsibilities for climate proofing their cities. In this stage of policy emergence, local authorities are clearly in the driving seat. It is envisaged that local public authorities need to more actively engage the different private actors such as citizens, civil society and businesses through governance networks along with the maturation of the policy field and the expected acceleration of climate impacts in the coming decades.ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Public Versus Private Responsibilitiesmentioning

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Local governments in the driving seat? A comparative analysis of public and private responsibilities for adaptation to climate change in European and North-American cities

Mees

2016

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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“…These cut across what can be termed regional, national, international and global levels (Bickerstaff and Agyeman 2009, Bulkeley 2005, Bulkeley et al 2013, Faber 2007, Harrison 2011b, Holifield 2012, Ikeme 2003, Pellow 2007, Sze et al 2009). These environmental justice scholars situate this multi-scalar analysis of environmental injustices in the imperatives and the crises of the neoliberal capitalist economy and state.…”

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Environmental Justice and Regional Political Ecology converge in the other California

London

2016

Journal of Political Ecology

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This article illuminates the value of the concept of the region in political ecology and environmental justice studies by presenting three arguments about the role of regions in environmental justice social movements engaged in climate change mitigation in California's San Joaquin Valley. First, regional planning agencies and environmental justice advocates are engaged in conflicts over not only the content of regional climate change plans, but the very definitions of region and the authority used to put these regional visions into action. Second, regional organizing provides environmental justice movements with new opportunities to address regional economic patterns and to negotiate with regional planning agencies, both of which influence local manifestations of environmental injustice. Third, regional strategies raise significant dilemmas for these movements as they try to sustain engagement across extensive spatial territories and engage with a broad set of policy and economic protagonists. Together, this analysis demonstrates that a dynamic approach to regions, regionalism, and regionalization can assist political ecology and environmental justice scholars in their common aim of understanding the co-production of social and environmental inequity and collective action to change it.

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“…Social justice has been at the forefront of climate change debates ever since it became a major political issue [52]. The same is true of sustainable development debates, where the extent to which the concept has reduced or exacerbated global inequalities is disputed [36].…”

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“…Agency is granted only to sovereign governments, meaning subnational considerations are underexplored [52]. However, what is valued by national governments is not necessarily valued by other stakeholders.…”

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Socially Just Triple-Wins? A Framework for Evaluating the Social Justice Implications of Climate Compatible Development

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Climate compatible development (CCD) aims to help people improve their lives in the face of climate threats without exacerbating these threats for current and future generations. It is proving an attractive concept to both academics and practitioners. However, the social justice implications of CCD have not yet been comprehensively explored and an absence of adequate evaluation frameworks has led to multiple, legitimate cross-scalar social justice claims being marginalised. This article develops a framework to guide holistic social justice evaluation of CCD initiatives across levels and scales. Underpinning this framework is a social justice approach that embraces particularism, pluralism and procedural justice. Drawing on existing research, the framework is used to explore the implications of the Clean Development Mechanism for recognition, participation and distribution in the Least Developed Countries. Findings show that achieving social justice through CCD is not a given; rather, the social justice implications of CCD differ within and between levels and scales. We conclude by suggesting ways in which our framework can be applied to augment knowledge on CCD. Understanding the processes through which social justices and injustices are created is integral to considerations of whether and how CCD should be used to underpin a new development landscape.

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Climate justice and global cities: Mapping the emerging discourses

Cited by 307 publications

References 24 publications

Local governments in the driving seat? A comparative analysis of public and private responsibilities for adaptation to climate change in European and North-American cities

Local governments in the driving seat? A comparative analysis of public and private responsibilities for adaptation to climate change in European and North-American cities

Environmental Justice and Regional Political Ecology converge in the other California

Socially Just Triple-Wins? A Framework for Evaluating the Social Justice Implications of Climate Compatible Development

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