Pluralising planetary justice beyond the North-South divide: Recentring procedural, epistemic, and recognition-based justice in earth-systems governance

Martín, William San; Wood, Nathan

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2021.12.002

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“…Reflecting recent critiques, they flag that interspecies, intergenerational and intragenerational justice need greater attention. Others have argued that further attention is needed on recognition, procedural and epistemic justice that accounts for marginalised voices (San Martín & Wood, 2022). Indeed, who gets to have a voice in what decision‐making, what colonial logics are perpetuated in inequities produced in these processes, whose epistemologies, cosmologies or valuation systems are heeded, and how benefits are distributed thus remains deeply contentious (Sultana, 2022b).…”

Section: Planetary Boundaries and Planetary Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Whose growth in whose planetary boundaries? Decolonising planetary justice in the Anthropocene

Sultana

2023

Geography and Environment

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This critical analysis examines the geopolitics of planetary environmental injustice and the imperative for systems change to address the intertwined crises of climate breakdown and unsustainable economic growth. Climate breakdown has heightened attention to uneven anthropogenic use and abuse of the planet's biosphere and common pool resources. Recent arguments by climate scholars suggest that various planetary boundaries have already been breached, resulting in dramatic and harmful socio‐ecological consequences. These trends raise crucial questions of equity and justice, especially concerning responsibilities and impacts. By centring Global South perspectives, prevailing ideologies promoting hyperconsumption, overproduction and waste are interrogated. The incommensurability of socioecological justice with ongoing unsustainable extractive and exploitative economic growth paradigms, which contribute to further transgressions of planetary boundaries, underscore the urgency of decolonising underlying colonial‐capitalist ideologies and practices. This entails a fundamental reformulation of paradigms to envision a more just and sustainable future, one that dismantles oppressive systems and advances justice‐oriented praxis.

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Section: Planetary Boundaries and Planetary Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Whose growth in whose planetary boundaries? Decolonising planetary justice in the Anthropocene

Sultana

2023

Geography and Environment

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“…Earth System Governance emerged early in the 2000s and by 2010 included a new 10-year global research effort designed to go beyond traditional environmental policy analysis and resolve questions about human-induced change on biogeochemical systems, and planetary boundaries, and address their complex governance challenges (Biermann, 2010; San Martin and Wood, 2022). The concept of planetary justice has gained greater recognition in recent years and represents an epistemic shift within the earth system and environmental governance (Biermann et al, 2017, 2022; Dryzek and Pickering, 2018), partially evident in the SDGs, which serves as a prominent governance tool.…”

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“…Planetary justice emphasises the inequalities embedded in complex governance interactions as a central lens of environmental research and practice. However, the discourse still tends to be primarily focused on Western and (re)distributive notions of justice, ignoring the understanding of justice formed and practised in different communities, particularly those outside the industrialised North (San Martin and Wood, 2022).…”

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A conceptual review of Sustainable Development Goal 17: Picturing politics, proximity and progress

Stanberry

Balda

2023

Journal of Tropical Futures: Sustainable Business, Governance &

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We outline the discursive origins of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17, describing its ambiguous marching orders, which are further confused by shifting and contested stakeholder approaches. The widespread effect is to obscure the primary aim of making the tropics and other vulnerable countries more resilient, and also globally overcoming barriers to their development. We argue that ecological reflexivity, as developed and advanced by deliberative democracy and the Earth System Governance Project, belongs at the apex of those capacities needed for implementing the Agenda for Transformation. Ecological reflexivity conceptually grounds inclusive, open, critical, and consequential engagement of discourses situated among capable representatives, advocates, and citizens. SDG-related partnerships – whether designed around funding, technology, knowledge generation, or business innovation – are the locus in which this gets worked out. We advance this aim by proposing adjustment of the focal point using a Picturing framework that can enable both scholarly and practitioner approaches to SDG 17 to correct distortions and also materially ‘strengthen the means of implementation’. Using this framework, which entails Picturing politics, Picturing proximity to the poor, and Picturing progress, actors can shift attention to the accompanying discursive properties that affect implementation of the 2030 Agenda. Picturing is given concrete application through five case examples aligned to the research lenses of the Earth System Governance Research Framework. By drawing on studies spanning Barbados, Grenada, Bolivia, Ghana, Zambia, Peru, India and Fiji we demonstrate potential for the Picturing framework to provoke novel development pathways for a more sustainable future in the tropics.

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“…As such, climate justice is a means for not only unpacking the structures that drive climate suffering but also providing solutions for remedying this multifaceted nature of suffering. Critical climate justice literature highlights the importance of responses to climate change that assign responsibility for and addresses the inequalities that drive climate change (San Martín and Wood 2022). State and non‐state actors are therefore considered central to climate justice (Dietzel and Harris 2019; Furlan and Mariano 2021).…”

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“…Multi‐scalar frameworks highlight the intersectional drivers of inequality and experiences of climate change (Sultana 2022). These recognize new forms of colonialism and integrate “intergenerational, multispecies, and intersectional” concepts that reflect non‐western understandings of climate justice (San Martín and Wood 2022:260). This conception of climate justice is characterized by the intersection of class, race, gender, age, and regional location, among other facets of identity (Harlan et al.…”

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Global Surpluses of Extraction and Slow Climate Violence: A Sociological Framework

O’Sullivan

Omukuti

Ryder

2022

Sociological Inquiry

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This review article examines the concept of slow violence in relation to the current climate collapse. It outlines the extractive relationship between states in the Global North and Global South, and explores how this relationship creates and sustains disproportionate climate violence for the Global South. It critiques proposed adaptation and mitigation solutions for the Global South that emphasize market-led proposals and a return on investments that mostly benefit the Global North. It argues that these proposals fail to critically engage with the root causes of vulnerability to climate change and Greenhouse Gas emissions that cause climate change. The review uses World Systems Theory to analyze the power differentials between South and North, and concepts such as the "Color Line," "Necropolitics," and "Slow Violence" to underline the post-colonial character of this relationship. These provide historical context to the current hegemonic role of the Global North in carbon emission negotiations and responses. In doing so, the article highlights the need to think about climate change, and solutions to climate change, as a driver of slow violence and surplus climate violence by the Global North against the Global South. Introduction: Climate (in)Justice and Global Patterns of Disparity in Climate ImpactsThe sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) paints a picture of severe climate change with irreversible effects. Even if the world successfully limited further global warming, irreparable damage has already occurred in some places (IPCC 2022a). Countries in the Global North have historically contributed the most carbon emissions and hold greater capacity to reduce their emissions and adapt to the effects of climate change. Meanwhile, denizens of the Global South suffer a disparate distribution of climate harms despite having little contribution to aggregate emissions (Barnett 2007;Islam and Winkel 2017). This has resulted in unequal human suffering, such as forced relocations, loss of property, lower quality of

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Pluralising planetary justice beyond the North-South divide: Recentring procedural, epistemic, and recognition-based justice in earth-systems governance

Cited by 20 publications

References 49 publications

Whose growth in whose planetary boundaries? Decolonising planetary justice in the Anthropocene

Whose growth in whose planetary boundaries? Decolonising planetary justice in the Anthropocene

A conceptual review of Sustainable Development Goal 17: Picturing politics, proximity and progress

Global Surpluses of Extraction and Slow Climate Violence: A Sociological Framework

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