scholarly journals Environmental Justice and Regional Political Ecology converge in the other California

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan K. London
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Regional Climate Change ◽  
Regional Strategies ◽  
Justice Movements ◽  
Change Mitigation

This article illuminates the value of the concept of the region in political ecology and environmental justice studies by presenting three arguments about the role of regions in environmental justice social movements engaged in climate change mitigation in California's San Joaquin Valley. First, regional planning agencies and environmental justice advocates are engaged in conflicts over not only the content of regional climate change plans, but the very definitions of region and the authority used to put these regional visions into action. Second, regional organizing provides environmental justice movements with new opportunities to address regional economic patterns and to negotiate with regional planning agencies, both of which influence local manifestations of environmental injustice. Third, regional strategies raise significant dilemmas for these movements as they try to sustain engagement across extensive spatial territories and engage with a broad set of policy and economic protagonists. Together, this analysis demonstrates that a dynamic approach to regions, regionalism, and regionalization can assist political ecology and environmental justice scholars in their common aim of understanding the co-production of social and environmental inequity and collective action to change it.Key Words: Environmental justice, regional political ecology, climate change mitigation, regional planning, rural community development

Climate Change Mitigation, Air Pollution, and Environmental Justice in California

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (18) ◽  
pp. 10829-10838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christa M. Anderson ◽  
Kendall A. Kissel ◽  
Christopher B. Field ◽  
Katharine J. Mach
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Change Mitigation

scholarly journals Regional climate change mitigation with crops: context and assessment

2012 ◽  
Vol 370 (1974) ◽  
pp. 4301-4316 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Singarayer ◽  
T. Davies-Barnard
Keyword(s):  
Land Surface ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Regional Climate Change ◽  
Crop Productivity ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
Climate Manipulation ◽  
Change Mitigation

The intention of this review is to place crop albedo biogeoengineering in the wider picture of climate manipulation. Crop biogeoengineering is considered within the context of the long-term modification of the land surface for agriculture over several thousand years. Biogeoengineering is also critiqued in relation to other geoengineering schemes in terms of mitigation power and adherence to social principles for geoengineering. Although its impact is small and regional, crop biogeoengineering could be a useful and inexpensive component of an ensemble of geoengineering schemes to provide temperature mitigation. The method should not detrimentally affect food security and there may even be positive impacts on crop productivity, although more laboratory and field research is required in this area to understand the underlying mechanisms.

scholarly journals Potentials of Protected Areas as Carbon sinks and Implication on Climate Change in Cameroon

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Usongo P Ajonina
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Carbon Sinks ◽  
Change Mitigation

Cameroon has 115 000 km2 land area designated as Protected Areas (PAs), providing society with many ecosystem services including climate change mitigation. The study was aimed at examining the potentials of inland and coastal PAs as carbon sinks and implication on climate change mitigation in Cameroon between 1978 and 2014. Data for the study was obtained from both primary and secondary sources. Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques were used in the analysis of satellite imageries. The land cover change trajectory revealed a drop in the rate of conversion of dense forest within inland PAs compared to coastal PAs. Results reveaked carbon sequestration within inland PAs between 1978 and 2014 and the PAs were able to absorb166,590.73 tonnes/ha CO2 from the atmosphere and build up carbon resulting to the amelioration of the local and regional climate of the area with a positive impact on global climate change. Within the coastal PAs, there was 71,418.48 tonnes/ha CO2 emission through 1978 – 2014 with resulting negative impacts on the climate. The constraints to effective PA management identified were human and capital resource problems, hostility of the local population, delayance in law enforcement and poverty. To ensure their roles in climate moderation there should be a better forest policy implementation within PAs in Cameroon by making available more capital and human resources to PAs management to enable them cope in the face of growing anthropogenic threats.

scholarly journals Policy persistence: REDD+ between stabilization and contestation

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 378-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adeniyi Asiyanbi ◽  
Jens Friis Lund
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Poor Outcomes ◽  
Critical Policy ◽  
Natural Climate ◽  
Policy Persistence ◽  
Change Mitigation

At this time of rapid global environmental change and demands for sweeping societal transformation, we call for greater scrutiny of the persistence of particular policies and ideas. In this Special Section we focus on REDD+, which for long has enjoyed remarkable global support in spite of poor outcomes and widespread criticisms. The central policy proposition of REDD+, that is, forest-based emissions reduction through market-based instruments and non-market means, are now carried forth under the new banner of Natural Climate Solutions. We examine REDD+ to understand how and why some environmental policies and ideas persist despite dubious impacts. We conceptualize policy persistence by drawing on three strands of political ecology literature - critical policy studies, assemblage studies, and political economy - that illuminate the dynamics of policy persistence in different yet complementary ways. We argue that the persistence of policies and policy ideas rests in a tentative balance of the counteracting processes of stabilization and contestation, which precipitate both intended and unintended outcomes. We show how the stabilization of REDD+ itself lends stability to broader ideas of forest-based climate change mitigation. We suggest that policy persistence is an area of political ecological research, which now calls for renewed engagement.Keywords: Policy persistence, REDD+, climate change mitigation, Natural Climate Solutions, political ecology

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