Tackling knowledge and power: an environmental justice perspective on climate change adaptation in Kiribati

Abstract. In this intervention, we reflect on the potential of environmental justice and climate justice approaches to reveal the politics of climate change adaptation. Taking the attempts at dealing with extreme flooding events in Venice as an example, we illustrate that different dimensions at the core of the environmental justice concept (distributive and procedural justice and justice as recognition) are helpful to analyse and to politicise climate change adaptation interventions. We call for a transformative research agenda to reconfigure interventions and expertise to more closely account for the socio-political processes and narratives shaping coastal environments and to foster multiple epistemologies. Above all, this entails strengthening the inclusion of local (environmental) knowledge, the involvement of the populations affected by interventions in adaptation planning and the open discussion of political questions and values shaping interventions.

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Is the Brazilian National Climate Change Adaptation Plan Addressing Inequality? Climate and Environmental Justice in a Global South Perspective

Environmental Justice ◽

10.1089/env.2019.0043 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 42-46 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Pedro Henrique Campello Torres ◽

Ana Lia Leonel ◽

Gabriel Pires de Araújo ◽

Pedro Roberto Jacobi

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Environmental Justice ◽

Climate Change Adaptation ◽

Global South

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Climate resilience and environmental justice: state of research and implementation in planning practice in Germany and beyond

Town Planning Review ◽

10.3828/tpr.2021.26 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (0) ◽

pp. 1-27

Author(s):

Stefan Greiving ◽

Mark Fleischhauer

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Environmental Justice ◽

Regional Development ◽

Climate Change Adaptation ◽

Adaptation Strategy ◽

Climate Resilience ◽

Spatial Inequalities ◽

State Of Research ◽

Urban And Regional Development ◽

The Relationship

Climate-change adaptation has become a well-established priority in urban and regional development in Germany since the adoption of the German Adaptation Strategy in 2008. Recently, the socioeconomic aspects and concepts of vulnerability and resilience have received growing attention with regard to climate-change adaptation. This article introduces the TPR special issue on climate resilience and environmental justice. In so doing, it discusses the relationship between climate change and socio-spatial inequalities, and their significance for climate-resilient urban and regional development. Based on this discussion and empirical findings from German practice, as well as the assessment of the policy context and participatory reflection, the article identifies several loose ends in research and practice that need to be connected by further converging concepts and indicators in climate-change and environmental-justice research and policies.

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