"The term ""climate justice"" began to gain traction in the late 1990s following a wide range of activities by social and environmental justice movements that emerged in response to the operations of the fossil fuel industry and, later, to what their members saw as the failed global climate governance model that became so transparent at COP15 in Copenhagen. The term continues to gain momentum in discussions around sustainable development, climate change, mitigation and adaptation, and has been slowly making its way into the world of international and national policy. However, the connections between these remain unestablished.
Addressing the need for a comprehensive and integrated reference compendium, The Routledge Handbook of Climate Justice provides students, academics and professionals with a valuable insight into this fast-growing field. Drawing together a multidisciplinary range of authors from the Global North and South, this Handbook addresses some of the most salient topics in current climate justice research, including just transition, urban climate justice and public engagement, in addition to the field’s more traditional focus on gender, international governance and climate ethics. With an emphasis on facilitating learning based on cutting-edge specialised climate justice research and application, each chapter draws from the most recent sources, real-world best practices and tutored reflections on the strategic dimensions of climate justice and its related disciplines.
The Routledge Handbook of Climate Justice will be essential reading for students and scholars, as well as being a vital reference tool for those practically engaged in the field."
"List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Justice in the Era of Climate Change Tahseen Jafry, Michael Mikulewicz and Karin Helwig Part I Theories of Climate Justice 2. On the evolution and continuing development of the climate justice movement Brian Tokar 3. On inquiry into climate justice Idil Boran 4. Fact-insensitive thought experiments in climate ethics: Exemplified by Parfit’s non-identity problem Jörg Tremmel 5. A Narrative Account of Temporality in Climate Justice Nejma Tamoudi and Michael Reder Part II Climate Justice Governance, Policy and Litigation 6. Global political processes and the Paris Agreement: A case of advancement or retreat of climate justice? Susan P. Murphy 7. Statehood in an Era of Sinking Islands Tom Sparks 8. Reimagining development practice: Mainstreaming justice into planning frameworks Ritwika Basu and Amir Bezaz 9. Climate Justice in the UK: Reconciling climate change and equity issues in policy and practice in a developed country context Katharine Knox 10. Equity and justice in climate change law and policy: A role for benefit-sharing Annalisa Savaresi and Kim Bouwer 11. Leading from the Bench: The role of judges in advancing climate justice, and lessons from South Asia Emeline Pluchon Part III Climate Justice, Finance and Business 12. Climate finance: Moral theory and political practice Alexandre Gajevic Sayegh 13. The inter-relationship between climate finance and climate justice in the UNFCCC Tessa Sheridan and Tahseen Jafry 14. Carbon pricing and climate justice: design elements for effective, efficient and equitable greenhouse gas emissions reductions Edward Cameron 15. Sharing the burden of climate change via climate finance and business models Emilie Prattico Part IV Just Transition 16. From the dirty past to the clean future: Addressing historic energy injustices with a just transition to a low-carbon future J. Mijin Cha 17. Just Energy? Structures of energy (In)justice and the Indonesian coal sector Anna Fünfgeld 18. Climate technology and climate justice: energy transitions in Germany, India and Australia James Goodman, Devleena Ghosh and Tom Morton 19. Big Oil's duty of disgorging funds in the context of climate change Marco Grasso 20. Climate Justice and REDD+: A multiscalar examination of the Norwegian-Ethiopian Partnership David Brown Part V Urban Climate Justice 21. The Climate-Just City Wendy Steele, Jean Hillier, Donna Houston, Jason Byrne and Diana MacCallum 22. Configuring climate responsibility in the city: Carbon footprints and climate justice in Hong Kong Sara Fuller 23. The shifting geographies of climate change justice: Mobile vulnerabilities in and across Indian cities Eric Chu and Kavya Michael 24. Fair for whom? How residents and municipalities evaluate sea-level rise policies in Botany Bay, Australia Anne Maree Kreller and Sonia Graham 25. Thermal inequity: The relationship between urban structure and social disparities in an era of climate change Bruce C. Mitchell and Jayajit Chakraborty Part VI Climate Justice and Gender 26. Climate justice, gender and intersectionality Patricia E. Perkins 27. ""No climate justice without gender justice"": explorations of the intersections between gender and climate injustices in climate adaptation actions in the Philippines Roa Petra Crease, Meg Parsons and Karen Toni Fisher 28. Achieving climate justice through gender mainstreaming climate change adaptation? A multiscale analysis from the Lower Shire Valley, Malawi Jane Maher 29. Inclusive climate governance in Southeast Asia: Lessons learned from gender-responsive climate mitigation So-Young Lee and Eric Zusman Part VII Climate Justice Movements and Struggles 30. ""Climate change is about us"": The NAACP, fence-line communities, and the grounding of climate justice Brandon Derman 31. Mother Earth and climate justice: Indigenous peoples’ perspectives of an alternative development paradigm Alan Jarandilla Nuñez 32. Negotiating climate Justice at the subnational scale: Challenges and collaborations between indigenous peoples and governments Colleen Scanlan Lyons, Maria DiGiano, Jason Gray, Javier Kinney, Magaly Medeiros, Francisca Oliveira de Lima Costa and Francisca Arará 33. Understanding the crises, uncovering the root causes, and envisioning the world(s) we want: Conversations with the anti-pipeline movements in Canada Jen Gobby and Kristian Gareau Part VIII Emerging Areas in Climate Justice 34. Beyond the academy: Reflecting on public engagement about climate justice Sonja Klinsky 35. Climate migration: The emerging need for a human centred approach Sennan Mattar and Enyinnaya Mbakwem 36. Climate justice education: From social movement learning to schooling Callum McGregor, Eurig Scandrett, Beth Christie and Jim Crowther 37. Transformative approaches to address climate change and achieve climate justice Dunja Krause 38. Conclusion Tahseen Jafry Index"
Tahseen Jafry is a Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), Scotland, UK and the Director of GCU’s Centre for Climate Justice.
Reviews for Routledge Handbook of Climate Justice
"""This Handbook is a timely and significant contribution to the growing body of academic literature on climate justice. It comes at a critical turning point in UNFCCC climate negotiations with the imminent review of the Paris Agreement. It is an excellent knowledge resource bound to be of particular interest to academics, practitioners and students engaged in the field of climate change and climate justice."" Mary Robinson, President, Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice ""Climate justice names the central problem - and solution - for this century and beyond. In this collection, you will learn why this is and, in these still-early stages of thinking and CJ movement-building, which debates are raging."" Patrick Bond, Distinguished Professor of Political Economy, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa"