Justice in a Changing Climate? Inclusion and Representation in Environmental Expertise

气候变化中的正义？

• 批准号: ES/Y007972/1
• 负责人: Anna Bridel
• 金额: $ 14.96万
• 依托单位: London School of Economics and Political Science
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FY007972%2F1
• 关键词: Justice; Changing; Climate; Inclusion; Representation

How can societies address climate change in ways that are socially just and inclusive? This urgent concern facing scholars, policymakers and citizens is motivated by the projected intensification of climate change and its disproportionate effects on marginalized people and is reflected in mounting demands for environmental justice on the global climate agenda. This research examines implications of an increasingly popular approach to this issue - the collaborative creation - or "coproduction" - of environmental knowledge by experts and publics. Despite mushrooming on the climate governance agenda in recent years, this approach has faced challenges when implemented in practice, often generating unwanted outcomes such as "maladaptation" - expertise that exacerbates rather than addresses climate vulnerability.This research seeks to expand knowledge about how the needs of local vulnerable people can be reflected in expertise about climate risk and thereby create policies that are more just, inclusive and relevant. It will analyse frameworks and strategies of inclusive climate governance (for example by examining strategies such as reflexive learning, deliberative democracy, and community-based adaptive management) that can inform governments, NGOs and community organizations developing climate adaptation policies. By studying the experiences and risk-framings of vulnerable fishing communities it will provide critical inquiry into how climate expertise can be made more relevant and accountable to local people. It will also advance academic knowledge in three key areas. First, there is a growing call among Human Geographers for "transformative" climate policies - those which look beyond incremental solutions to "reconfigure the meaning and trajectory of development". Understanding how climate expertise can reflect the needs and voices of local vulnerable people is key to structurally transforming climate futures by facilitating intervention in how they are imagined and developed.Second, Disaster scholars increasingly debate the extent to which climate vulnerability lies in geo-physical change or the socio-economic ways this change is experienced. This research will contribute to these debates by developing a new conceptual framework for examining how vulnerability and environmental expertise mutually inform and shape one another. Third, research in Science and Technology Studies (STS) increasingly seeks to understand how diverse groups attach meaning to environmental risks, yet has hitherto largely studied socio-economically robust communities in established democracies. This research will contribute to these debates by analyzing how marginalized communities are able to shape climate expertise.

社会如何以社会公正和包容的方式解决气候变化？学者，政策制定者和公民面临的紧急关注是出于预计气候变化的强化及其对边缘化人群的不成比例的影响，并且反映在对环境正义对全球气候议程上的不断增长的需求中。这项研究研究了越来越流行的方法的含义 - 专家和公众对环境知识的协作创建或“合作”的含义。尽管近年来在气候治理议程上兴起，但这种方法在实践中实施时仍面临着挑战，通常会产生不必要的结果，例如“适应不良” - 加剧而不是解决气候脆弱性的专业知识，而不是解决这个研究的知识，以扩大对当地脆弱者的需求的知识，从而使风险更具限制性的范围，并在此方面构成了范围，并构成了范围的范围。它将分析包容性气候治理的框架和策略（例如，通过检查反思性学习，审议民主和基于社区的适应性管理等策略），这些策略可以为政府，非政府组织和社区组织提供构成制定气候适应政策的信息。通过研究脆弱捕鱼社区的经验和风险框架，它将对如何使气候专业知识更加相关和对当地人负责。它还将在三个关键领域提高学术知识。首先，人类地理学家之间对“变革性”气候政策的呼吁越来越多，这些政策超出了“重新配置发展的含义和轨迹”超越逐步解决方案的呼吁。了解气候专业知识如何反映当地脆弱人群的需求和声音是通过促进干预措施对他们的想象和发展的方式来改变气候期货的关键。第二，灾难学者越来越多地辩论气候脆弱性在地理物理变化或社会经济学方面所经历的变化的程度。这项研究将通过开发一个新的概念框架来研究脆弱性和环境专业知识如何相互告知和塑造彼此，从而为这些辩论做出贡献。第三，科学技术研究（STS）的研究越来越试图了解各种群体如何对环境风险具有意义，但迄今为止，在既定民主国家都在很大程度上研究了社会经济上强大的社区。这项研究将通过分析边缘化社区如何塑造气候专业知识来促进这些辩论。