A social justice framing of climate change discourse and policy: adaptation, resilience and vulnerability in a Jamaican agricultural landscape.
A social justice framing of climate change discourse and policy: adaptation, resilience and vulnerability in a Jamaican agricultural landscape.
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气候变化话语和政策的社会正义框架：牙买加农业景观的适应、恢复力和脆弱性。
DOI：
10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.11.003
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发表时间：
2016
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
D. Gamble
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文献类型：
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作者：
J. Popke;S. Curtis;D. Gamble
现在人们普遍认识到，气候变化可能对整个加勒比区域产生不利影响，社会最脆弱群体可能承受不成比例的负担。因此，现在是一个适当的时机，可以问一问气候变化讨论和政策背后的框架是否符合社会和环境正义的要求。在本文中，我们使用气候正义作为一个透镜来评估应对气候变化的三个突出框架，即适应性，弹性和脆弱性。我们认为，这些话语框架中的每一个都有助于我们对气候变化的理解，但它们并不都以同样的程度纳入正义问题。为了说明这一点，我们研究使用三个框架中的每一个来评估牙买加西南部农业转型的案例研究的正义意义。该地区的农民以各种方式适应不断变化的气候条件，包括使用新的农业技术。然而，许多农民利用这种创新的能力受到本区域脆弱性的制约。在从适应、复原力和脆弱性的角度解释了这个例子之后，我们得出结论，这三种范式都能够引起人们对气候正义问题的关注，但只有从脆弱性的角度来看，这些问题才是内在的。因此，我们认为，在加勒比气候政策中更多地关注脆弱性，有可能推动该区域实现气候公正的目标。
It is now widely recognized that climate change is likely to have detrimental impacts across the Caribbean region, with the burden likely to fall disproportionately on the most vulnerable segments of society. It is therefore an appropriate time to ask whether the frameworks that lie behind climate change discourse and policy are consistent with the demands of social and environmental justice. In this paper, we use climate justice as a lens for evaluating three prominent frameworks for addressing climate change, those of adaptation, resilience, and vulnerability. Each of these discursive frameworks, we argue, can contribute to our understanding of climate change, but they do not all incorporate justice concerns to the same degree. In order to illustrate this, we examine the justice implications of using each of the three frameworks to assess a case study of agricultural transformation in Southwestern Jamaica. Farmers in this region have adapted to changing climate conditions in a variety of ways, including the use of new agricultural technology. The ability of many farmers to take advantage of such innovations, however, is constrained by the underlying landscape of vulnerability within the region. After interpreting this example from the perspectives of adaptation, resilience and vulnerability, we conclude that all three paradigms are capable of calling attention to climate justice issues, but only in the vulnerability perspective are such issues intrinsic. We believe, therefore, that a greater attention to vulnerability within Caribbean climate policy holds the potential to advance the goals of climate justice within the region.
影响因子：
4.3
作者：
K. Brown
通讯作者：
K. Brown