Climate justice and global cities: Mapping the emerging discourses |
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| Authors: | Harriet Bulkeley JoAnn Carmin Vanesa Castán Broto Gareth AS Edwards Sara Fuller |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Geography and Durham Energy Institute, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom;2. Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 9-320, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, United States;3. Development Planning Unit, University College London, 34 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9EZ, United Kingdom;4. Department of Geography & Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, Irvine Building, North Street, St Andrews KY16 9AL, United Kingdom;5. Department of Environment and Geography, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Ever since climate change came to be a matter of political concern, questions of justice have been at the forefront of academic and policy debates in the international arena. Curiously, as attention has shifted to other sites and scales of climate change politics matters of justice have tended to be neglected. In this paper, we examine how discourses of justice are emerging within urban responses to climate change. Drawing on a database of initiatives taking place in 100 global cities and qualitative case-study research in Philadelphia, Quito and Toronto, we examine how notions of distributive and procedural justice are articulated in climate change projects and plans in relation to both adaptation and mitigation. We find that there is limited explicit concern with justice at the urban level. However, where discourses of justice are evident there are important differences emerging between urban responses to adaptation and mitigation, and between those in the north and in the south. Adaptation responses tend to stress the distribution of ‘rights’ to protection, although those in the South also stress the importance of procedural justice. Mitigation responses also stress ‘rights’ to the benefits of responding to climate change, with limited concern for ‘responsibilities’ or for procedural justice. Intriguingly, while adaptation responses tend to stress the rights of individuals, we also find discourses of collective rights emerging in relation to mitigation. |
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| Keywords: | Climate change Cities Planning Justice |
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