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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Climate justice"”.
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Climate Justice and the Distribution and Scarce Resources
The global climate policy options of mitigation and adaptation are both characterized by the question of how to fairly distribute a scarce resource. Adaptation measures aim to prevent the materialisation of future climate risks that threaten the lives, health, homes, and economic prospects of many …
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Disproportionate Realities: The Climate Justice Implications of Mitigation Policies Across Scales
<p>Global climate change will have disproportionate effects on low-income and minority communities around the world producing important justice challenges. As national governments increasingly rely on local governments, civil society, and private transnational actors to establish and implement …
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Re-Constructing Climate Change: Discourses of the Emerging Movement for Climate Justice
… the discourses surrounding the subject of climate change, with particular emphasis on the discourse(s) of the emerging social movement for climate justice. Positioned within the social constructivist and critical research paradigms, the methodology involves a Foucauldian-inspired discourse …
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Towards Decolonial Climate Justice: An Analysis of Green New Deal and Indigenous Perspectives
… international significance as the only prominent climate legislation in the United States. The Green New Deal has also become emblematic of a larger movement for climate justice; however, further analysis of the Green New Deal and its assumptions indicates that it falls short of enacting …
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Climate Justice: Its Meanings, Its Struggles, and Its Prospects Under Liberal Democracy and Capitalism
The term climate justice, despite wide usage, defies easy definition. I argue that in order to appreciate it in its full complexity, climate justice is best understood as a moral framework with 2 facets. Facet 1 allows us to identify the various moral wrongs or concerns that are either causing, …
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Determining Conditions That Enable or Impede the Inclusion of Climate Justice in Municipal Adaptation Planning in Canada
… adaptation planning to prepare for the onset of climate change. A climate justice framework in adaptation planning seeks equity by ensuring all parts of society receive the benefits required to address their vulnerabilities. This thesis examined the extent and quality of climate justice in …
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Frontlines of crisis, forefront of change : climate justice as an intervention into (neo)colonial climate action narratives and practices
… poor, all face disproportionate impacts from climate change, a fact captured in the adage "the least responsible are most vulnerable." Recognising the Global North as the instigators and benefactors of a carbon economy built on the continuing oppression and exploitation of black and brown …
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A Just Transition Framework for Resilience - Evaluating Strategies for Seattle’s Duwamish Valley Resilience District
… a framework for evaluating policies that advance climate justice within the emerging Duwamish Valley Resilience District in Seattle, Washington. The Duwamish Valley is a legacy industrial area and environmental justice community facing cumulative pollution burdens and increasing climate impacts. …
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Preparing for Climate-Related Migration: An Exploratory Assessment of Capacities and Barriers Facing Calgary-based Immigrant Serving Agencies in Responding to Climate Change
This thesis uses climate justice as a conceptual framework to explore the capacities and barriers of immigrant-serving agencies (ISA) in Calgary, Alberta, in responding to climate migration. The research addresses the limited research conducted in Canada on climate migration and policies at …
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International human rights law and climate change: the case for a duty to mitigate climate change
… dissertation deals with the relationship between climate change and international human rights law. A special focus lies on the question if states have a human rights obligation to mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gas-emissions. To this end, the dissertation develops and proposes a …
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Heating Up the Conversation on Climate Change Storytelling in Canada
… as an environmental communication and climate justice strategy is becoming clearer and louder as the climate crisis unfolds disastrously around the world. This qualitative study explored how eleven storytellers in Canada are responding to this need and how intersectional storytelling on …
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The role of environmental justice in the fight against gentrification
Nationwide environmental justice organizations are involved in campaigns to address gentrification within their communities. This thesis explores the ways in which these organizations connect the issue of gentrification to environmental issues and how they are using community organizing to confront …
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NGOs & climate change campaigns : understanding variations in motivations and activities of environmental and development organizations
The unequal distribution of climate change impacts exploits the existing vulnerabilities of developing nations. This inequity, coupled with an inadequate, climate mitigation-focused response, has prompted a growing movement of global civil society actors demanding climate justice. In particular, …
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Mirror, mirror : fairness and justice in climate geoengineering
Climate geoengineering seems an increasingly likely prospect as the gap between current mitigation action and that needed to avoid dangerous climate change remains substantial. Climate change raises fundamental questions of justice with respect to future generations, the poor and vulnerable in the …
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Rights and climate change mitigation - why the individual rights approach to climate change mitigation is not the right approach
… philosophical ideas of rights extend to climate change mitigation? The dissertation analyses this question in the light of three philosophical theories of rights: (1) analytical theories of rights, (2) moral theories of rights, and (3) political theories of justice. The dissertation …
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Climate Change and Aging: analyzing the disproportionate health and socioeconomic vulnerabilities of older adults in relation to the climate crisis in the U.S.
Climate change has exacerbated the extreme highs and lows of temperature throughout the United States. While climate change-related temperature changes have impacted the entire population, certain demographic groups bear more of the burden than others. In particular, older adults (those aged 65+) …
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A just transition towards sustainable development: A legal analysis of the transition to a low-carbon economy in the South African mining industry in the context of sustainable development.
… environmental objectives. Environmental justice redresses the injustices of the past that are associated with the inequality that resulted from economic growth which caused environmental degradation and pollution, as well as the distorted access to and benefits from the extraction and use …
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Building solidarity and growing a movement : the story behind the People's Climate March
… on the streets of Manhattan for the People's Climate March (PCM), making it the largest climate change demonstration in U.S. history. Under a banner that read "Frontlines of Crisis, Forefront of Change," the march was led by low-income people of color and indigenous peoples -- those most …
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Resilience and Its Discontents: Risk, Temporality, and a Climate Change Crisis
… the most important concepts in discourse about climate change and urban planning, central to decisions about investments, urban development, and budgeting. Furthermore, it has taken shape as a large industry with conferences, professionals and advisors, and indices and metrics all meant to …
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