Doctoral Dissertation Research: Climate Change, Law, and Transnational Space: The Politics of Climate Justice Mobilization

博士论文研究：气候变化、法律和跨国空间：气候正义动员的政治

• 批准号: 1129127
• 负责人: Steve Herbert
• 金额: $ 1.19万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-15 至 2013-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1129127&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Climate; Change

Recent studies have highlighted the differential impact of climate change on people and their livelihoods in different parts of the world. Such findings have led to widespread political mobilization for "climate justice" in a range of contexts. Human rights, legal argument, and international institutions have structured such efforts by several government and civil society advocates, while many NGOs and social movements have called instead for structural change, organizing popular mobilization across political scales. The varied framings and strategies employed by these groups bear upon the direction of future regulatory action and, ultimately, the production of physical and social geographies. Little scholarship, however, has examined these politics as they involve differently positioned actors, with different resources, stakeholders, and commitments. This doctoral dissertation project explores these themes through a comparative study of two significantly differentiated mobilization efforts for "just" climate regulation. The project asks (1) how the groups frame the problem of uneven climate change and appropriate responses, (2) what political opportunity structures exist for them and how they make strategic choices, and (3) how framings and opportunity structures inform each other, and the assessment of outcomes. In-depth interviews with key actors in two efforts, observations of meetings and actions in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the European Union, and texts produced by the two efforts will provide data to answer these questions. The findings will demonstrate the range of framings and political opportunities that characterize the two cases, relationships between these two definitive aspects of mobilization, and links between them and the factors that differentiate the cases, which include the institutional affiliations of key actors; forms of expertise; the ideological commitments of actors and their stakeholders; political scales of engagement; and legal vs. non-legal strategies. The project will analyze how differently positioned actors engage in formal political processes and direct action in response to the imminent and uneven environmental impacts associated with climate change. In so doing, it will unpack the divergent conceptualizations of global justice that these efforts pursue, which involve legal norms and processes, relational connections, and prescription for redistribution and redress in varying forms and degrees. It will examine how emergent scientific knowledge plays a role in the construction of political efforts that cross space to link disparate impacts, communities, and places, and how such efforts mobilize strategically at different political geographic scales. It will demonstrate the importance of actors' situatedness for their means and abilities to participate in processes of global governance and representative politics. This research has potential policy implications because it will lead to better understanding of advocacy practices and participation in current climate policy formation structures. It may also contribute to expanding knowledge of the political dimensions of climate change and its regulation in relation to themes of justice, issues of importance that have been recognized by inclusion in the mitigation section of the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. The study holds potential to contribute to knowledge in political geography, political ecology, as well as socio-legal studies, and to better integrate these literatures. The project will contribute to the training of a young scholar, and will incorporate results into teaching and learning opportunities.

最近的研究突出表明，气候变化对世界不同地区人民及其生计的影响不同。这些发现导致在各种情况下为“气候正义”进行广泛的政治动员。 人权、法律的论据和国际机构为一些政府和民间社会倡导者的这种努力提供了结构，而许多非政府组织和社会运动则呼吁进行结构改革，组织各种政治规模的民众动员。 这些群体所采用的不同框架和策略影响着未来监管行动的方向，并最终影响着自然地理和社会地理的产生。 然而，很少有学者研究这些政治，因为它们涉及不同定位的行为体，不同的资源，利益相关者和承诺。 这个博士论文项目探讨这些主题，通过两个显着不同的动员努力的比较研究“公正”的气候调节。 该项目询问（1）群体如何构建不均衡气候变化的问题和适当的应对措施，（2）他们存在什么样的政治机会结构以及他们如何做出战略选择，（3）框架和机会结构如何相互通报，以及结果评估。 对两项努力中的主要行为者进行的深入访谈、对《联合国气候变化框架公约》和欧洲联盟的会议和行动的观察以及这两项努力产生的文本将提供数据来回答这些问题。 调查结果将显示两个案例的框架和政治机会的范围，这两个明确的动员方面之间的关系，以及它们与区分案例的因素之间的联系，这些因素包括关键行为体的机构从属关系;专门知识的形式;行为体及其利益攸关方的意识形态承诺;参与的政治规模;以及法律的与非法律的战略。 该项目将分析处于不同地位的行为者如何参与正式的政治进程，并直接采取行动，应对与气候变化相关的迫在眉睫和不均衡的环境影响。 在这样做时，它将解开这些努力所追求的全球正义的不同概念，其中涉及法律的规范和程序、关系联系以及不同形式和程度的再分配和补救规定。 它将研究如何新兴的科学知识在建设跨空间的政治努力中发挥作用，将不同的影响，社区和地方联系起来，以及这些努力如何在不同的政治地理尺度上进行战略动员。 它将表明行为体所处的环境对其参与全球治理和代议制政治进程的手段和能力的重要性。 这项研究具有潜在的政策影响，因为它将导致更好地了解倡导做法和参与目前的气候政策形成结构。 它还可能有助于扩大对气候变化的政治层面及其与司法主题有关的监管的了解，这些重要问题已被纳入政府间气候变化专门委员会下一份报告的缓解部分。 这项研究有可能有助于政治地理学，政治生态学以及社会法律研究的知识，并更好地整合这些文献。 该项目将有助于培训一名青年学者，并将成果纳入教学和学习机会。