How Should Urban Climate Change Planning Advance Social Justice?

IF 1.1 4区 哲学 Q3 ETHICS Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1353/ken.2023.a899459
Bridget Pratt
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Cities are struggling to balance the moral imperatives of sustainable development, with equity and social justice often ignored and negatively impacted by climate change mitigation and adaptation. Yet, the nature of these impacts on social justice has not been comprehensively investigated and little ethical guidance exists on how to better promote social justice in urban climate change planning practice. This article addresses the normative question: How should urban climate change planning advance social justice? It gathers empirical literature documenting the inclusivity and equity impacts of urban climate change planning and thematically analyses that literature for dimensions of social justice drawn from philosophical and urban justice theory. Study findings demonstrate that four characteristics of climate change planning in cities-underlying neoliberal ideology, unequal treatment, green gentrification, and exclusion from decisionmaking-comprise, create, or worsen social injustices across six dimensions. These characteristics are often interconnected and inseparable. Where neoliberal ideology guides urban climate change planning, the other three characteristics frequently occur as well. The article concludes by arguing that, at a minimum, urban planners and climate planners have an obligation of justice to avoid undertaking climate change planning that exhibits any of the four characteristics and to address injustices generated where planning has such characteristics. It further suggests that planners' negative obligations likely extend beyond this because the literature review revealed gaps in existing empirical data on the equity impacts of urban climate change planning.

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城市气候变化规划如何促进社会公正?
摘要:城市正在努力平衡可持续发展的道德要求,而公平和社会正义往往被忽视,并受到气候变化减缓和适应的负面影响。然而,这些对社会正义影响的性质尚未得到全面调查,如何在城市气候变化规划实践中更好地促进社会正义的伦理指导也很少。本文解决了规范性问题:城市气候变化规划应如何促进社会正义?它收集了记录城市气候变化规划的包容性和公平性影响的实证文献,并对这些文献从哲学和城市正义理论中提取的社会正义维度进行了专题分析。研究结果表明,城市气候变化规划的四个特征——潜在的新自由主义意识形态、不平等待遇、绿色高档化和被排除在决策之外——构成、创造或加剧了六个维度的社会不公正。这些特征往往是相互联系、不可分割的。在新自由主义意识形态指导城市气候变化规划的地方,其他三个特征也经常出现。文章的结论是,至少,城市规划者和气候规划者有公正的义务,以避免进行表现出这四个特征中的任何一个的气候变化规划,并解决规划具有这些特征时产生的不公正。它进一步表明,规划者的负面义务可能不止于此,因为文献综述揭示了关于城市气候变化规划的公平影响的现有经验数据的差距。
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期刊介绍: The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal offers a scholarly forum for diverse views on major issues in bioethics, such as analysis and critique of principlism, feminist perspectives in bioethics, the work of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, active euthanasia, genetics, health care reform, and organ transplantation. Each issue includes "Scope Notes," an overview and extensive annotated bibliography on a specific topic in bioethics, and "Bioethics Inside the Beltway," a report written by a Washington insider updating bioethics activities on the federal level.
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