Pub Date : 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2023.2277248
Darryn McEvoy, Ata Tara, Mittul Vahanvati, Serene Ho, Kim Gordon, Alexei Trundle, Cyril Rachman, Yuyun Qomariyah
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are considered to hold promise for addressing the pressing and multi-faceted challenges of climate resilience. Addressing this contemporary agenda, this research paper explores the potential value of NbS in urban contexts based on the experience of implementing four NbS pilots to address climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction in an informal settlement in Honiara, Solomon Islands. The project, funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), employed an inclusive co-production approach, with the project team engaging closely with community members and local stakeholders throughout the planning, design and implementation stages. Findings reinforce the importance of long-term engagement and trust-building with members of the community and also underscore the value of empowering local partners in project design and implementation in Pacific Island Nations. The paper details the local processes that were involved and highlights the key insights and lessons learned from the proof-of-concept project which can usefully inform the scaling up of NbS initiatives to achieve multiple benefits in other similar urban contexts in the Global South.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2023.2264255
Lauren Gifford, Diana Liverman, Joyeeta Gupta, Lisa Jacobson
This paper reflects on the work of the Earth Commission and the Global Commons Alliance to include climate and environmental justice in establishing biophysical targets to stabilize the Earth system. Targets include those for global temperature (e.g. 1.5°C), biodiversity (e.g. % protected or natural land), surface and groundwater and nutrient pollution (e.g. phosphorus load). We discuss whether and how to define Earth system justice in relation to planetary targets and related levers of transformation, how we identify measures of what is just, and reflect on whether target setting itself is a neoliberal process. We examine how science can identify targets that subsequently inform policies that may inadvertently increase, rather than decrease, inequalities, such as those associated with neoliberal policies of commodification, privatization, top-down conservation and globalization. Can the operationalization of targets enable deep transformations needed to stabilize the Earth system and ensure just access for all, or will they be used for business as usual? We draw on collaborations with members of the social science working group of the Earth Commission to focus not only on possibilities for just targets but on radical transformations for a safe and just planet where harm is minimized and access to wellbeing is possible for all.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2023.2268589
Jennie C. Stephens, Martin Sokol
Global financial architectures, including central banks and their monetary policies, are critical to leveraging transformative change for climate justice. Yet, currently central banks are exacerbating rather than mitigating the climate crisis and climate injustices. By following a neoliberal policy paradigm and narrowly interpreted mandates for price stability and financial stability, central banks are focusing on stabilizing a system that is inherently unstable. This accelerates climate chaos around the world and is worsening future financial instability. Recognizing both the potential of central banks to advance climate justice and the inattention of the role of central banks in the climate crisis, this paper contributes to the emerging field of financial innovation for climate justice. First, we review what central banks are currently doing to advance and hinder climate justice. Then we explore monetary policy tools that central banks could deploy for transformative climate justice. We then make the case for ‘creative disruption’ in monetary policy which requires expanding the narrow mandate of central banks and new kinds of global coordination. This call for intentional creative disruption changes policy assumptions regarding financial stability and climate politics and reconceptualizes how to achieve transformative systemic change to move toward a more equitable, just, healthy, sustainable future.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2023.2255566
Kevin Grove, Genevieve Reid, Sarah Molinari, Joshua Falcon, Aarti Mehta-Kroll, Edurne Sosa El Fakih, Alejandra Sepulveda-Reyes, David Ortiz
{"title":"Absurd geographies of resilience and justice","authors":"Kevin Grove, Genevieve Reid, Sarah Molinari, Joshua Falcon, Aarti Mehta-Kroll, Edurne Sosa El Fakih, Alejandra Sepulveda-Reyes, David Ortiz","doi":"10.1080/17565529.2023.2255566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2023.2255566","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47734,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Development","volume":"104 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135870503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2023.2264270
Ayansina Ayanlade
{"title":"Safe drinking water supply under extreme climate events: evidence from four urban sprawl communities","authors":"Ayansina Ayanlade","doi":"10.1080/17565529.2023.2264270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2023.2264270","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47734,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Development","volume":"33 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135870368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2023.2274901
Aby L. Sène
{"title":"Justice in nature conservation: limits and possibilities under global capitalism","authors":"Aby L. Sène","doi":"10.1080/17565529.2023.2274901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2023.2274901","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47734,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Development","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135870253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2023.2276492
Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, Thomas Benfield, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Gregory E. Erhabor, Stephen Hancocks, Richard Horton, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Robert Mash, Peush Sahni, Wadeia Mohammad Sharief, Paul Yonga, Chris Zielinski
{"title":"Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency","authors":"Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, Thomas Benfield, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Gregory E. Erhabor, Stephen Hancocks, Richard Horton, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Robert Mash, Peush Sahni, Wadeia Mohammad Sharief, Paul Yonga, Chris Zielinski","doi":"10.1080/17565529.2023.2276492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2023.2276492","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47734,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Development","volume":"35 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136382050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-23DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2023.2261406
Julia Coombs Fine, Summer Gray, Corrie Grosse, Brigid Mark
ABSTRACTThe emotions of youth climate justice activists are often demeaned or misrepresented both by popular media and by COP organisers. The COP itself, as a cold, bureaucratic, and repressive space that tokenises frontline voices to create an optics of care, is a source of frustration and disappointment for many youth activists. Despite this misrepresentation and repression, youth activists use their emotions to strengthen their movements and actions at the COP. Drawing on collaborative event ethnography spanning a decade, this paper analyses how Global South youth climate justice activists strategically navigate and channel emotion through acts of emotional solidarity, emotional concealment, and emotional display. We assess how youth activists’ complex emotional experiences exist in generative tension within individuals and within the youth climate justice movement. Our findings suggest that their emotional strategies unlock the capacity for exercising power while cultivating relationships necessary for climate justice.KEYWORDS: Climate justicesocial movementsemotionsyouthUNFCCC COPGlobal South AcknowledgementsWe thank John Foran, Tom Hobday, Emily Williams, Natasha Weidner, and our UCSB research team in Warsaw for their help in collecting interviews. We thank the undergraduate research assistants at UCSB who helped edit transcripts.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 ‘We’ refers to one or more of the authors and the other youth activists with whom authors attended various COPs.2 This vignette is a synthesis of our combined experiences at several COPs.3 Middle-aged white man Richard Madeley used these words to describe youth activist Miranda Whelan’s work with Just Stop Oil on Good Morning Britain in April 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6T-iwy0bOU4 The designation of ‘youth’ at the UN climate talks is broadly conceived and includes young adults under the age of thirty-five.5 Despite this, there is relatively little literature about youth at COP. For example, youth are conspicuously absent from the 2021 book on COP coalitions: Coalitions in The Climate Change Negotiations (Betzold et al., Citation2021).6 Access to being lauded as a hero is subjective and unevenly distributed according to privilege, and was relatively uncommon in Mayes and Hartup’s research analysis.7 Friction across individuals within the youth climate justice movement, however, is not necessarily generative; it can lead to splintering along axes of differences. We do not have the data to sufficiently explore this critical topic and suggest it as a generative area of future research.8 COP27 in Egypt was seen as particularly repressive (see Klein, Citation2022), although repression was present at all COPs we observed.9 We join Nixon (Citation2013) in admiration of Saño’s ‘readiness – his desperate readiness – to crash right through the wall of bureaucratic language [… putting] his whole body, his whole being, behind
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Pub Date : 2023-10-23DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2023.2247378
Danya Al-Saleh, Neha Vora
ABSTRACTUS universities have positioned themselves in recent years as sites of progressive green action, cutting-edge research, and student-driven change. These universities have even been exported to wealthy oil-dependent states in the Arabian Peninsula under the guise of developing their societies away from fossil fuels through liberal education. These countries, however, have developed their national strategies within imperial relationships with Great Britain and then the United States, in part to uphold the prosperity of the West and its development of liberal democratic ideologies and institutions, of which higher education has played a central part. Drawing on research within US branch campuses in Qatar, and focusing specifically on Texas A&M Qatar, an engineering school that is a site of what we call ‘petro-education’, we trace how these US universities reproduce the fossil fuel industry’s operations. Bringing this research in conversation with scholarship that challenges the liberal mythologies of US higher education, we argue that US universities largely remain embedded in a broader agenda to reconcile the climate crisis with what appears to be a greener capitalism that extends fossil fuel extraction into the future.KEYWORDS: Universitiesclimate justicefossil fuelsengineeringQatar Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The research drawn on in this paper had both IRB approval from Danya Al-Saleh’s home institution University of Wisconsin – Madison IRB (Study # 2017-0062) and a local IRB approval in Qatar through Georgetown University at Qatar (IRB Study # 2018-0397) for a study titled “The role of engineering education and expertise in Qatar’s transition to a knowledge-based economy.” All participants went through the informed consent process, however, signatures were waived. All interviews conducted are anonymized and all references to people interviewed are pseudonyms. Any potentially identifiable titles, career trajectories or positions have been changed to further anonymize interviews.Additional informationNotes on contributorsDanya Al-SalehDanya Al-Saleh is an Assistant Professor in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.Neha VoraNeha Vora is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of International Studies at the American University of Sharjah.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2023.2257625
Hasina Akther, Mokbul Morshed Ahmad, Thi Phuoc Lai Nguyen
ABSTRACTThis paper examines the livelihood vulnerability of the urban poor households due to urban flood. The Livelihood Vulnerability Index (LVI) and IPCC-LVI framework were applied for analysing the vulnerability of Mirpur Slum (MPS) and Rail-line Slum (RLS) in Dhaka city. The findings indicate that slum settlements with similar characteristics could have different levels of vulnerability due to their households’ attributes and the characteristics of the surrounding neighbourhoods. This study provides insights of livelihood vulnerability of the urban poor which appeals for effective urban flood adaptation strategies through enhancing public health, water access and food security for the slum dwellers. The findings and recommendations derived from this study are likely applicable to other cities in Bangladesh and to other countries including global south with similar socio-economic profiles.KEYWORDS: Livelihood vulnerabilityfloodslum dwellersDhaka city Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Ethical statementWe declare that this article is unique, has not previously been published, and is not presently being accepted for publication anywhere. There are no conflicts of interest involving the authors and this article. As the Corresponding Author, I attest that all of the indicated authors have read and approved the paper for submission.Additional informationNotes on contributorsHasina AktherDr Hasina Akther is working as an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Having a keen interest in urban and climate change issues, she completed her doctoral research from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand, on the vulnerability and adaptive capacity of the urban poor exposed to extreme climate events in Bangladesh. Over the course of her professional and academic career, Dr. Akther has led many research projects addressing a diverse range of urban challenges and climate change-related matters, including rural-urban linkages, urban development processes, livelihood assessments, slum mapping, and slum vulnerability. The outcomes of Dr. Akther's twelve years of research excellence in this field have produced several published articles in esteemed peer-reviewed journals. Additionally, she has made significant contributions to numerous international and national-level seminars, workshops, and conferences in her field of interest.Mokbul Morshed AhmadDr Mokbul Morshed Ahmad is a Professor in Development Planning Management and Innovation in the Department of Development and Sustainability in the School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, P.O. Box. 4. Klong Luang, Pathumrhani 12120, Bangkok, Thailand (e-mail: morshed@ait.ac.th, phone: 66-2-524-5664 fax: 66-2-524-6431). Prior to that he was an Assistant Professor in the department of Geography and Environment, Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He ho
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