Global Climate Justice: developing and operationalising a critical framework to embed the environment into global social policy

全球气候正义：制定并实施关键框架，将环境纳入全球社会政策

• 批准号: 2890144
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2890144
• 关键词: Global; Climate; Justice; developing; operationalising

IntroductionWith the latest data from the IPCC clearly showing the imminent and widespread impact that climate change will have, it is not without cause to argue that current efforts to combat the climate crisis are not enough. Given the far-reaching impacts, more research (and action) is needed that involves new perspectives and takes an interdisciplinary approach to engage with the all-encompassing nature of climate change.Despite it being determined by the IPCC that humans and the climate are more strongly interdependent than previously thought, there is very little by way of conceptualising or measuring social and environmental outcomes together. By embedding environmental issues into social policy, transformative change could occur that, as yet, has been untapped. Social policy has the potential to both mitigate the worst effects of climate change and lay the foundations for a new, sustainable future. As such, this thesis aims to make use of this opportunity.Research questionsThere is a clear gap between scholarship on global social policy and how the environment intersects with social policy. After identifying that these broad disciplines may be connected using climate justice as a conceptual framework, it gives rise to two, interrelated, research questions:Can global social policy be conceptualised within a critical climate justice framework?If so, what would that framework look like?Then, in order to operationalise these research questions, a further two questions are asked that invite a more empirical exploration:Are nation states aligning themselves with the principles of climate justice?If so, which countries are the most advanced?The third and fourth research questions engage with empirical methods and contribute to knowledge by mapping possible reasons why current climate change agreements are falling short of their targets. The findings also provide a pathway for future research into how current policies may be adapted to be better informed by global climate justice. It is hoped that this outcome will lead to more socially-driven policies being made to help solve the global impacts of climate change.Research DesignIn order to answer both sets of research questions, the research will be broken down into three phases; engaging a mixed methods approach of triangulation. Phase 1 will combine the qualitative method of conducting interviews as part of the critical framework development process. Phase 2 will use quantitative methods to operationalise the framework, by collecting and counting evidence aligning with the framework from policy documents. However, the quantification of the results will not be seen as the final research result and a further qualitative step of more interviews will be conducted, providing meaning and context to better inform the findings. Ethical ImplicationsRecognition of the four key ethical principles of participant harm, lack of informed consent, invasion of privacy and deception will be taken into account when designing the interviews during phases one and three in this thesis. However, these principles do not apply when using policy documents as data for Phase 2. This is due to the data being accessible and readily available within the public domain, with no prohibitions on its use for research purposes.Impact and contribution to knowledgeThis thesis will contribute to knowledge in two ways. Firstly, there is the methodological contribution of creating and testing a critical framework that combines the research areas of global social policy, environmental justice and climate justice.The second is the contribution of conceptualising the environment within global social policy. This could lead to specific outcomes regarding the use of global social policy as a tool for mitigating the negative impacts of climate change.

引言来自IPCC的最新数据清楚地表明了气候变化所产生的即将发生的广泛影响，并非没有理由争辩，目前打击气候危机的努力是不够的。鉴于影响深远的影响，需要更多的研究（和行动），涉及新的观点，并采用跨学科的方法来与气候变化的无所不能的性质互动。比以前想象的是强烈的相互依存的，几乎没有通过概念化或衡量社会和环境成果的方式。通过将环境问题纳入社会政策，可能会发生变革性的变革，但迄今尚未开发。社会政策有可能减轻气候变化的最严重影响，并为新的可持续未来奠定基础。因此，本论文旨在利用这个机会。研究问题是关于全球社会政策的奖学金与环境如何与社会政策相交的明显差距。在确定这些广泛的学科可以使用气候正义作为概念框架连接之后，它引起了两个相互关联的研究问题：可以在批判性气候正义框架内概念化全球社会政策吗？如果是这样，该框架会是什么样然后，为了实现这些研究问题，要求另外两个问题邀请一个更经验的探索：民族国家是否与气候正义原则保持一致？如果是这样，哪些国家是最先进的？研究问题与经验方法相关，并通过绘制可能导致当前气候变化协议未达到目标的可能原因来促进知识。这些发现还为未来的研究提供了一条途径，即如何通过全球气候正义来更好地了解当前政策。希望这种结果将导致制定更多社会驱动的政策，以帮助解决气候变化的全球影响。研究以回答两组研究问题的命令，将分为三个阶段。参与三角剖分的混合方法。第1阶段将结合进行访谈的定性方法作为关键框架开发过程的一部分。第2阶段将使用定量方法来操作框架，通过收集和计算与策略文件的框架一致的证据。但是，结果的量化不会被视为最终研究结果，并将进行更多访谈的进一步定性步骤，从而提供意义和背景，以更好地告知发现结果。在本论文中，将考虑到参与者伤害的四个关键道德原则，缺乏知情同意，侵犯隐私和欺骗的道德意义。但是，这些原则在使用策略文档作为第2阶段的数据时不适用。这是由于数据在公共领域内易于访问且无需禁止其用于研究目的。通过两种方式促进知识。首先，创建和测试一个关键框架的方法论贡献结合了全球社会政策，环境正义和气候正义的研究领域。第二是概念化全球社会政策中环境的贡献。这可能导致有关使用全球社会政策作为减轻气候变化的负面影响的工具的具体结果。