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.

IPCC的最新数据清楚地表明，气候变化将产生迫在眉睫的广泛影响，因此有理由认为，目前应对气候危机的努力还不够。鉴于其深远的影响，需要更多的研究（和行动），包括新的视角，并采取跨学科的方法来参与气候变化的包罗万象的性质。尽管IPCC确定人类和气候比以前认为的更紧密地相互依赖，但通过概念化或测量社会和环境结果的方式却很少。通过将环境问题纳入社会政策，可能会发生迄今为止尚未开发的变革。社会政策有可能减轻气候变化的最坏影响，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。研究问题有一个明显的差距学术界对全球社会政策和环境如何与社会政策相交。在确定这些广泛的学科可以连接使用气候正义作为一个概念框架，它产生了两个相互关联的研究问题：全球社会政策可以在一个关键的气候正义框架内概念化？如果是这样的话，这个框架会是什么样子？然后，为了操作这些研究问题，进一步提出两个问题，邀请更多的实证探索：民族国家调整自己的气候正义的原则？如果是，哪些国家是最先进的？第三和第四个研究问题采用实证方法，通过绘制当前气候变化协定未能实现其目标的可能原因，为知识做出贡献。研究结果还为未来研究如何调整现行政策以更好地了解全球气候正义提供了一条途径。希望这一成果将导致更多的社会驱动的政策正在制定，以帮助解决气候变化的全球影响。研究设计为了回答这两组研究问题，研究将分为三个阶段，从事三角测量的混合方法。第1阶段将结合联合收割机进行访谈的定性方法，作为关键框架开发过程的一部分。第二阶段将使用量化方法，通过从政策文件中收集和计算与框架一致的证据，使框架运作起来。然而，结果的量化不会被视为最终的研究结果，将进行更多的访谈，提供意义和背景，以更好地为调查结果提供信息。伦理含义在设计第一阶段和第三阶段的访谈时，本文将考虑对参与者伤害、缺乏知情同意、侵犯隐私和欺骗这四个关键伦理原则的认识。但是，当使用政策文件作为第2阶段的数据时，这些原则并不适用。这是由于数据是可访问的，并在公共领域内随时可用，没有禁止其用于研究目的。影响和贡献知识本论文将有助于知识在两个方面。首先，在方法论上，我们将全球社会政策、环境正义和气候正义的研究领域结合起来，创建并检验了一个关键框架;其次，我们将环境概念化，将其纳入全球社会政策。这可能导致在利用全球社会政策作为减轻气候变化负面影响的工具方面取得具体成果。