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应对气候变化？学者、政策制定者和公民面临的这种紧迫担忧是由于气候变化预计将加剧及其对边缘化人群的不成比例的影响，并反映在全球气候议程上对环境正义的日益要求上。这项研究探讨了解决这个问题的一种日益流行的方法——专家和公众对环境知识的协作创造——或“共同生产”的影响。尽管近年来气候治理议程如雨后春笋般涌现，但这种方法在实践中面临着挑战，经常产生不良后果，例如“适应不良”——专业知识加剧而不是解决气候脆弱性。这项研究旨在扩大有关需求如何的知识。当地弱势群体的利益可以反映在有关气候风险的专业知识中，从而制定更加公正、包容和相关的政策。它将分析包容性气候治理的框架和战略（例如通过审查反思性学习、协商民主和基于社区的适应性管理等战略），为政府、非政府组织和社区组织制定气候适应政策提供信息。通过研究脆弱渔业社区的经验和风险框架，它将为如何使气候专业知识与当地人民更加相关和负责提供重要的探究。它还将推进三个关键领域的学术知识。首先，人文地理学家越来越多地呼吁“变革性”气候政策——这些政策超越增量解决方案，“重新配置发展的意义和轨迹”。了解气候专业知识如何反映当地弱势群体的需求和声音，是通过促进对气候未来的想象和发展方式的干预，从结构上改变气候未来的关键。其次，灾害学者越来越多地争论气候脆弱性在地球物理变化中的程度或经历这种变化的社会经济方式。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影响和塑造，从而为这些辩论做出贡献。第三，科学技术研究（STS）越来越多地寻求了解不同群体如何看待环境风险，但迄今为止主要研究的是成熟民主国家中社会经济稳健的社区。这项研究将通过分析边缘化社区如何塑造气候专业知识，为这些辩论做出贡献。