Journal
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages 914-925Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.05.010
Keywords
Climate change; Cities; Planning; Justice
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Funding
- Harriet Bulkeley's ESRC Climate Change Research Fellowship [RES-066-27-0002]
- United States National Science Foundation
- ESRC [ES/1004920/1]
- ESRC [ES/F037163/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/F037163/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Ever since climate change came to be a matter of political concern, questions of justice have been at the forefront of academic and policy debates in the international arena. Curiously, as attention has shifted to other sites and scales of climate change politics matters of justice have tended to be neglected. In this paper, we examine how discourses of justice are emerging within urban responses to climate change. Drawing on a database of initiatives taking place in 100 global cities and qualitative case-study research in Philadelphia, Quito and Toronto, we examine how notions of distributive and procedural justice are articulated in climate change projects and plans in relation to both adaptation and mitigation. We find that there is limited explicit concern with justice at the urban level. However, where discourses of justice are evident there are important differences emerging between urban responses to adaptation and mitigation, and between those in the north and in the south. Adaptation responses tend to stress the distribution of 'rights' to protection, although those in the South also stress the importance of procedural justice. Mitigation responses also stress 'rights' to the benefits of responding to climate change, with limited concern for 'responsibilities' or for procedural justice. Intriguingly, while adaptation responses tend to stress the rights of individuals, we also find discourses of collective rights emerging in relation to mitigation. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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