scholarly journals Climate Justice and Sustained Transnational Mobilization

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-372
Author(s):  
Paul Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
International Organization ◽  
First Century ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Environmental Racism ◽  
Environmental Threat ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Transnational Mobilization ◽  
Final Essay

Samir Amin’s final essay called for the creation of a new international organization of progressive social forces. This essay provides evidence from twenty-first century transnational movements on the likelihood of the emergence of such an international organization and the issues and sectors most likely to facilitate coalitional unity.  More specifically, the ecological crises identified by Amin in the form of global warming and climate change create an unprecedented global environmental threat capable of unifying diverse social strata across the planet.  The climate justice movement has already established a global infrastructure and template to coordinate a new international organization to confront neoliberal forms of globalization.  Pre-existing movement organizing around environmental racism, climate justice in the global South, and recent intersectional mobilizations serve as promising models essential to building an enduring international organization representing subaltern groups.

scholarly journals Facteurs affectant les stratégies d’adaptation des éleveurs aux changements climatiques: cas des parcours d'El Ouara au Sud Tunisien

New Medit ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Houda Rjili ◽  
Mohamed JAOUAD
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Herd Size ◽  
The South ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Environmental Threat ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Changements Climatiques

Climate change is a global environmental threat to all economic activities, especially the livestock activity. The South of Tunisia, where animal husbandry is a fundamental element of the domestic economy, is more influenced by these negatives effects due to the arid climate. The objective of this study is to identify strategies and levers mitigation and adaptation to climate change developed by breeders on based on available factors. For this purpose, a survey conducted among 73 breeders on the rangelands of El Ouara, in the South of Tunisia. Results emerges that breeders use various adaptation strategies principally, supplementation, integration agriculture-livestock and conduct’s mode through different types such as association. The result of the model reveal that age of breeder, herd size, agricultural area, member of an association, subsidies and well ownerships are the most factors which significantly influence the adaptation choices of breeders to cope to climate change. The results proved too that adaptation to climate change was inhibited by many factors such as luck of workforce labor, lack of water and financial resources as well the degradation of the rangelands.

Imperilling the health of the global environmental commons

2019 ◽  
pp. 267-295
Author(s):  
Ronald Labonté ◽  
Arne Ruckert
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Human Survival ◽  
Environmental Threat ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Wealth Inequalities

Alongside persisting and massive wealth inequalities, the ecological toll that human population growth and the economic appropriation of natural resources has taken on the sustainability of the myriad ecosystems essential to human survival is now the major threat to future health and human survival. With ecologists arguing that we have entered a new geologic era (the Anthropocene) in which our planet is shaped almost entirely by human activity, the greatest environmental threat is often considered to be climate change. But there are few of the ecological boundaries on which life depends that are not in crisis of being breached. The causes and the consequences of this looming health catastrophe are wholly inequitable: the wealthy benefit, the poor pay the price. There is some technological optimism on the horizon, but fundamentally the present excesses of human consumption and productions, and their misallocation globally, require a rapid reversal if the intent of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, and the targets of the new Sustainable Development Goals are to have any chance of attainment.

Moral Foundations for Global Environmental and Climate Justice

2011 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 117-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chukwumerije Okereke
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
International Justice ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Global Environmental

Aspirations for global justice have, in the last two decades, found their most radical expressions in the context of global environmental governance and climate change. From Rio de Janeiro through Kyoto to Copenhagen, demands for international distributional justice, and especially North–South equity, have become a prominent aspect of international environmental negotiation. However, claims for international environmental and climate justice have generally been deployed in the form of instinctive gut reaction than as a closely argued concept. In this paper, I outline the ways in which issues of international justice intertwine with notions of global environmental sustainability and the basic premises on which claims for North–South equity are entrenched.

scholarly journals ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (9SE) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
AbidaShamim Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Economic Cost ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Severe Weather ◽  
Environmental Threat ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The World ◽  
Rising Sea Level

The whole world is on the terrifying cross-roads of global environmental threat. Last several years, particularly the last two years dominated the headlines about the serious threat climate change posed to the world. The more frequent severe weather conditions which result from climate change or global warming in the form of storms, tornadoes, tsunamis, floods, droughts, rising sea level and such other catastrophes have raised the economic cost of the natural disasters. The result, it appears, is beyond our control and, perhaps, there is no immediate answer to it.

scholarly journals Teaching and Practicing Climate Politics at College of the Atlantic: Student-inspired, Student-driven

2015 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 24-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doreen Stabinsky
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Youth Movement ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Environmental Diplomacy ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Climate Change Politics

College of the Atlantic students past and present play leadership roles in the international climate justice youth movement. Student interest in climate change politics at the global level, particularly within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, has inspired the development of a range of courses at COA in global environmental diplomacy. The courses provide a climate justice framework for understanding the geopolitics and political economy of the negotiations, serve to link students with key actors in the climate justice movement, and ultimately to contribute to their own development as climate justice leaders.

scholarly journals Impacts of climate change on agriculture in Senegal: A systematic review

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-38
Author(s):  
Abubakar Ahmed ◽  
Mukhtar Suleiman ◽  
Musbahu Jibrin Abubakar ◽  
Abba Saleh
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Effect Of Temperature ◽  
Uncertainty Range ◽  
Environmental Threat ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Monitoring And Forecasting ◽  
Comprehensive Search ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Climate change is a global environmental threat, affecting every sector of the economy with agriculture being the most affected as a result of its dependence on climate especially rainfall and temperature. The objective of this study is to examine the impacts of climate change on agriculture (crop production) and identify the farmers’ adaptation strategies to the impacts of climate change in Senegal. This study employed systematic literature review. Searching of relevant documents were conducted between 26th December 2020 and 10th February, 2021. A comprehensive search of six databases were conducted. The databases searched were Scopus, African Journal Online (AJOL), ProQuest, Elsevier, Research gate, and Google scholar. The findings revealed that temperature is expected to increase by median value of 0.90C (0.70C-1.50C) by 2035, by 2.10 (1.60C-3.30C) by 2065, and 4.00C (2.6-5.90C) by 2100 and rainfall could increase by 1% (uncertainty range of −4% to +8%) by 2035, 2% (−8% to +8%) by 2065, and 5% (−10% to +16%) by 2100. As a result of rising temperatures, local agricultural production will be less than 50kg per capita by 2050. This is expected to have an effect on crop imports as well as regional migration. The decrease in rainfall under RCP2.6, (Representative Concentration Pathway) combined with the effect of temperature, has a significant impact on the yield of sorghum, maize, and millet, with production decreasing by up to 20-50%. Farmers employed several adaptation strategies to adapt to the impacts of climate change; sowing improved variety, mixed cropping, income diversification, ownership of multiple farms, religious practices in form of prayer. The review recommends strengthening of climate related institutions, adoption of new innovations, implementation of new climate related policies, climate monitoring and forecasting, enhancing and strengthening community-based adaptation through sensitization and incentives.

Climate Change and Society

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Dietz ◽  
Rachael L. Shwom ◽  
Cameron T. Whitley
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
First Century ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Corporate Sector ◽  
Indigenous Identity ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Individual Actions ◽  
Policy Systems ◽  
Contemporary Climate ◽  
Nonhuman Species

Climate change is one of the greatest ecological and social challenges of the twenty-first century. Sociologists have made important contributions to our knowledge of the human drivers of contemporary climate change, including better understanding of the effects of social structure and political economy on national greenhouse gas emissions, the interplay of power and politics in the corporate sector and in policy systems, and the factors that influence individual actions by citizens and consumers. Sociology is also poised to make important contributions to the study of climate justice across multiple lines of stratification, including race, class, gender, indigenous identity, sexuality and queerness, and disability, and to articulate the effects of climate change on our relationship to nonhuman species. To realize its potential to contribute to the societal discourse on climate change, sociology must become theoretically integrated, engage with other disciplines, and remain concerned with issues related to environmental and climate inequalities.

scholarly journals The Role of Climate Ethics in Biodiversity Conservation

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Mark Omorovie Ikeke
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Environmental Racism ◽  
Climate Ethics ◽  
Combat Climate Change ◽  
Scientific Facts

The environmental crisis manifests in various ways such as: desertification, deforestation, marine and atmospheric pollution, environmental racism, destruction of biodiversity and so forth. One of these, the destruction of biodiversity has continued unabated. Many factors have caused biodiversity loss. The most serious of these factors is climate change. This paper argues that to conserve biodiversity there is serious need to combat climate change. Combating climate change requires more than knowledge of scientific facts and public policy, there is need for climate ethics and ethically reconstructive human behaviours that act for climate justice. Through critical analytic and hermeneutic methods the concepts that ground the paper are interpreted and examined. The issues that the paper deals with are critically dissected and appraised. The paper finds that biodiversity loss is one of the most serious problems in the environmental crisis. The paper concludes that climate ethics can help to mitigate biodiversity loss.

An analysis of major environmental threats to human security in Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-139
Author(s):  
Naresh Bhakta Adhikari
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Environmental Security ◽  
Government Action ◽  
Environmental Threats ◽  
Environmental Threat ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
The Government

The paper mainly analyses the environmental threats focusing on climate change to human security in Nepal. Major aspects of human security are interlinked and interconnected in our context. Among them, human security offers much to the vibrant field of environmental security in Nepal. Environmental threats are linked to the overall impact on human survival, well-being, and productivity. A great deal of human security is tied to peoples’ access to natural resources and vulnerabilities to environmental change. The major environmental threats in our context is the climate change which have widespread implications for Nepal, causing impacts to water availability, agricultural production, forestry, among many other detrimental effects. The critical threat of environmental security needs to be taken into serious consideration to save our succeeding generation. This article primarily interpreted the government action towards emerging environmental threat based on realist approach. For the study of theme of this article, descriptive and analytical research has been used to draw present major environmental threats in Nepal. With consideration to factors, this article attempted to identify the major environmentally vulnerable areas that are likely to hamper the overall status of human security in Nepal. This paper also tried to suggest the measures to enhance the environmental security considering prospects and policy focusing on Nepalese diverse aspects.

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