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Contesting climate justice in the city : examining politics and practice in urban climate change experiments

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Date
03/2014
Author
Bulkeley, Harriet
Edwards, Gareth A. S.
Fuller, Sara
Funder
The British Academy
Grant ID
SG121306
Keywords
Climate justice
Climate change
Urban politics
Cities
Justice
GE Environmental Sciences
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Abstract
Debates about climate justice have mainly occurred at the international scale, and have focussed on the rights and responsibilities of nation-states to either be protected from the effects of climate change, or to take action to reduce emissions or support adaptation. In this paper, we argue that it is both productive and necessary to examine how climate justice is being pursued at the urban scale, which brings into focus the need for attention to issues of recognition as well as rights and responsibilities. Building on work from environmental justice, which has conceptualized justice as trivalent, we propose that climate justice can be understood as a pyramid, the faces of which are distributions, procedures, rights, responsibilities and recognition. We then apply this conceptual framework to examine climate change interventions in five cities; Bangalore, Monterrey, Hong Kong, Philadelphia and Berlin. Arguing that the politics and practices of urban climate change interventions are constantly engaging with and refracting the idea of justice, we examine how justice was articulated, practiced and contested across our cases. The perspective of recognition emerges as a particularly useful entry point through which to explore the types of rights, responsibilities, distributions and procedures required to respond justly to climate change. We conclude by reflecting on our framework, arguing that it is useful both as an analytical device to interrogate climate justice and to shape the design of climate change interventions which seek to ensure climate justice.
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Bulkeley , H , Edwards , G A S & Fuller , S 2014 , ' Contesting climate justice in the city : examining politics and practice in urban climate change experiments ' , Global Environmental Change , vol. 25 , pp. 31-40 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.01.009
Publication
Global Environmental Change
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.01.009
ISSN
0959-3780
Type
Journal article
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Copyright 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
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This paper draws on work undertaken through Harriet Bulkeley's ESRC Climate Change Fellowship, Urban Transitions: climate change, global cities and the transformation of socio-technical systems (ESRC RES-066-27-0002)
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5168

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