Planning the Climate-just City

Steele, Wendy; MacCallum, Diana; Byrne, Jason; Houston, Donna

doi:10.1080/13563475.2011.638188

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“…The concept of climate justice has been used to trace global spatial dynamics in the distribution of environmental goods and harms (Adger 2001). In the urban context, the unequal distribution of greenspace can exacerbate the vulnerability of already disadvantaged residents (Steele, Maccallum, Byrne, & Houston, 2012). Following Weber at al.…”

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Cultivating climate justice: Green infrastructure and suburban disadvantage in Australia

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are grateful to conference participants for their useful comments and feedback. They greatly acknowledge the assistance of the City of Gold Coast Council in funding survey printing and mailing, but note that the views reported here do not necessarily reflect the perspective of the City of Gold Coast Council. The authors are grateful to survey respondents for their participation, to Event Cinemas for providing movie ticket incentives for survey participation, and they appreciate the helpful comments of the anonymous reviewers. Griffith University partially funded data analysis as part of it Honours program. All errors remain those of the authors.

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“…Eective spatial planning strategies are important for the delivery of energy in an era of climate change, for resolving energy-related conicts, and for ensuring equitable outcomes in both energy supply and climate change response (both mitigation and adaptation) (Steele et al 2012). Although we would expect that spatial planning strategies would address the justice dimensions of both climate change and energy transitions, there was a very limited discussion of justice in Unauthenticated Download Date | 5/11/18 5:59 PM the literature on spatial planning and energy.…”

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“…(Byrne/MacCallum 2013, 165) Impacts arising from environmental inequality include increased morbidity (disease) and mortality (death), diminished education and employment prospects, reduced quality of life, and impaired livelihoods (Wolch et al 2014). The causes of environmental inequality are varied, but include intentional targeting, uneven law enforcement, the operation of land markets, biased-decision-making, and limited public consultation and participation (Steele et al 2012; Byrne/MacCallum 2013). Many environmental justice problems are attributable to industrial pollution, waste (mis)management, food production, and water resource protection and management (Carruthers 2007;Schweitzer/Stephenson 2007).…”

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Climate Change, Energy Policy and Justice: A Systematic Review

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Energy eciency and energy security are emerging concerns in climate change policy. But there is little acknowledgment of energy justice issues. Marginalised and vulnerable communities may be disproportionately exposed to both climate change impacts (e.g. heat, ooding) and costs associated with energy transitions related to climate change mitigation and adaptation (e.g. particulate exposure from biofuel combustion). Climate change is producing energy-related impacts such as increased cooling costs. In some cases it threatens energy security. Higher electricity costs associated with`climate proong' energy network infrastructure may exacerbate`fuel poverty' itself a form of injustice. In this paper we critically review the literature about multiple interrelations between energy policy, justice and climate change. We identify key issues, illuminate knowledge gaps, and synthesise ndings to develop a conceptual model. We chart a research agenda and highlight policy implications. IntroductionEnergy generation from fossil fuels is a major driver of anthropogenic climate change (Davis et al. 2010). The mining and combustion of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and shale gas produce a range of environmental impacts, including air pollution, groundwater contamination, and greenhouse gas pollutionthe latter contributing to climate change (Jenner/Lamadrid 2013;Campbell et al. 2014). Climate change in turn produces environmental impacts such as increases in extreme weather events, ooding, coastal erosion, drought and heat-waves. These impacts have social consequences, including disease, death and economic disruption (Byrne et al. 2009). Some climate change impacts also involve complex feed-back loops (Hou et al. 2012). For example, climate change can increase average temperatures, resulting in more energy consumption for cooling, in turn driving more fossil fuel use, exacerbating climate change (Dale et al. 2011).Eective climate change responses thus require both mitigation (reducing greenhouse gas production and sequestering carbon) and adaptatione.g. preparing for future climate regimes. There is a spectrum of energy-related mitigation * We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the reviewers in helping to improve this paper. We are indebted to their patience and guidance. We are also grateful to the editors for their understanding in the delays we experienced. While every attempt has been made to ensure the manuscript is correct, any omissions, errors and inaccuracies, remain those of the authors.

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“…To use UPE to examine the low-carbon restructuring in Mbale's case does not simply end with new forms of climate injustice (Steele et al, 2012). …”

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“…Such significant potential transformation requires explanatory frameworks that can interrogate and scrutinise the resulting spatialities, particularly across the earliar examples of low-carbon urbanisation. Here critical studies of these transformations are vital in contributing toward struggles for urban climate justice (Bulkeley and Betsill 2013;Steele et al, 2012), particularly in the aftermath of the Paris Agreement (Tollin, 2015). Additionally, there are growing connections between climate action and demands for urban service provision (Parnell and Pieterse, 2014) emerging from the Sustainable Development Goals and Habitat III agendas (Parnell, 2016).…”

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The climate crisis, carbon capital and urbanisation: An urban political ecology of low-carbon restructuring in Mbale

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The role of urban regions in action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions has become increasingly central to global urban governance over the past 20 years and particularly after new promises and agreements made at COP21. Despite some attention across urban studies, the need to interrogate how new forms of urban carbon governance are transforming infrastructure space remains pressing. This paper examines the low-carbon restructuring of the waste system in Mbale, Uganda, a town struggling to address its socio-ecological futures. The paper asserts that a UPE approach to how urban carbon governance is materialised advances three particular concerns; the governing of urban circulation, carbon capital and socio-material relations. Through examining these, the paper shows how global actors are increasingly involved in low-carbon transformation, use places such as Mbale as spaces of experimentation and dominate the governing of this restructuring. Yet out of such unjust processes new forms of contestation and low-carbon politics may emerge.

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Planning the Climate-just City

Cited by 50 publications

References 39 publications

Cultivating climate justice: Green infrastructure and suburban disadvantage in Australia

Cultivating climate justice: Green infrastructure and suburban disadvantage in Australia

Climate Change, Energy Policy and Justice: A Systematic Review

The climate crisis, carbon capital and urbanisation: An urban political ecology of low-carbon restructuring in Mbale

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