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Global Climate Crisis
Seeking Environmental Justice and Climate Equality
9781035308873 Edward Elgar Publishing
This topical book outlines one of the most ubiquitous challenges facing humanity and the planet today: the damaging impact of anthropogenic climate change. Humanizing the climate debate, it discusses solutions to the crisis and devises a moral framework centered on justice and equality.
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This topical book outlines one of the most ubiquitous challenges facing humanity and the planet today: the damaging impact of anthropogenic climate change. Humanizing the climate debate, it discusses solutions to the crisis and devises a moral framework centered on justice and equality.
The expert contributing authors find environmental justice at the intersection of human stability, accountability, rights, and dignity, and examine it across distributional, recognitional, and procedural justice dimensions and a capabilities approach. To advance tangible solutions to climate change, they recommend a plan of action which is sensitive to issues of implementation for vulnerable populations, such as discrimination, inequality, and injustice. Chapters call for practical and moral responses from politicians, corporations, and institutions who have the power and capacity to engage in non-partisan united action. Ultimately, the book engages with the complexity of environmental justice to understand the intersectional, multi-scalar, embedded nature of the problem.
Interdisciplinary in scope, this book is invaluable to students and scholars of climate change; environmental governance, regulation, politics, and policy; international relations; sustainable development studies and human geography. It is also a useful resource for policy advisors and activists concerned with climate change and environmental justice.
The expert contributing authors find environmental justice at the intersection of human stability, accountability, rights, and dignity, and examine it across distributional, recognitional, and procedural justice dimensions and a capabilities approach. To advance tangible solutions to climate change, they recommend a plan of action which is sensitive to issues of implementation for vulnerable populations, such as discrimination, inequality, and injustice. Chapters call for practical and moral responses from politicians, corporations, and institutions who have the power and capacity to engage in non-partisan united action. Ultimately, the book engages with the complexity of environmental justice to understand the intersectional, multi-scalar, embedded nature of the problem.
Interdisciplinary in scope, this book is invaluable to students and scholars of climate change; environmental governance, regulation, politics, and policy; international relations; sustainable development studies and human geography. It is also a useful resource for policy advisors and activists concerned with climate change and environmental justice.
Critical Acclaim
‘Global Climate Crisis honors the complexity of environmental justice, bringing together authors from the fields of health equity, urban planning, political ecology, environmental science and law, and social theory. The book warns against a universalizing, top-down approach to environmental justice, and instead engages with the knowledge and lived experiences of marginalized peoples and the more-than-human world. The chapters explore the many dimensions of climate justice and equity by bringing together empirical cases, such as the US-Mexico border and urban heat islands, with ecofeminist and anti-colonial theory building. This book is a wonderful resource for thinking about the complexity of climate justice, one that is not afraid to pose disruptive questions to the status quo.’
– Cara Daggett, Virginia Tech, USA
‘This short collection of cutting edge contributions focuses clearly on the failures of conventional thinking to grapple with the rapidly growing climate crisis. While the dangers mount, so too do the opportunities to reformulate justice in novel ways incorporating ecological and indigenous insights to reimagine who we might become.’
– Simon Dalby, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
– Cara Daggett, Virginia Tech, USA
‘This short collection of cutting edge contributions focuses clearly on the failures of conventional thinking to grapple with the rapidly growing climate crisis. While the dangers mount, so too do the opportunities to reformulate justice in novel ways incorporating ecological and indigenous insights to reimagine who we might become.’
– Simon Dalby, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Contents
Contents
1 Introduction: seeking environmental justice and
climate equality 1
Hoda Mahmoudi and Kate Seaman
2 Engaging ethically with narratives from
historically marginalized cultures in response to
climate change 20
Ben Mylius
3 Urban heat islands and associated health effects
for vulnerable populations: exploring data,
technology, and community-engaged research to
advance health equity 42
Na’Taki Osborne Jelks and JC Gonzalez
4 Sexism and sustainability: women, feminism, and
the response to the climate crisis 64
Tiffani Betts Razavi
5 Situated ecologies of attention as a pathway for
socially just climate policy 91
Melissa Nursey-Bray, Shoko Yoneyama, Anna
Szorenyi, Anna Grage, Celeste Hill, Ariane
Gienger and Vera Storp
6 Reflections on the possibility of a global climate
justice movement from the US-Mexico border:
justicia ambiental al límite 119
Kyle Haines
7 Conclusion: working through the complexity of
environmental justice 145
Kate Seaman and Hoda Mahmoudi
1 Introduction: seeking environmental justice and
climate equality 1
Hoda Mahmoudi and Kate Seaman
2 Engaging ethically with narratives from
historically marginalized cultures in response to
climate change 20
Ben Mylius
3 Urban heat islands and associated health effects
for vulnerable populations: exploring data,
technology, and community-engaged research to
advance health equity 42
Na’Taki Osborne Jelks and JC Gonzalez
4 Sexism and sustainability: women, feminism, and
the response to the climate crisis 64
Tiffani Betts Razavi
5 Situated ecologies of attention as a pathway for
socially just climate policy 91
Melissa Nursey-Bray, Shoko Yoneyama, Anna
Szorenyi, Anna Grage, Celeste Hill, Ariane
Gienger and Vera Storp
6 Reflections on the possibility of a global climate
justice movement from the US-Mexico border:
justicia ambiental al límite 119
Kyle Haines
7 Conclusion: working through the complexity of
environmental justice 145
Kate Seaman and Hoda Mahmoudi
