Beyond Distribution and Proximity: Exploring the Multiple Spatialities of Environmental Justice

Walker, Gordon

doi:10.1002/9781444322767.ch1

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“…They currently feel excluded from the development of adaptation policies and would like to see greater levels of community engagement. This is consistent with (Walker 2009) argument that there is a need to provide access to political spaces that have previously been restricted. Although Walker (2009) was concerned with environmental justice more generally, it is evident that this conception of spatial justice is also relevant to climate justice specifically.…”

Section: Interactionalsupporting

confidence: 85%

“…Residents wanted assurances that their towns were not being forced to adapt to SLR when other at risk communities are not. This element of spatial fairness has not previously been discussed in the fields of organisational management (Usmani and Jamal 2013) or environmental justice (Walker 2009) and suggests that the definition of spatial fairness may need to be expanded to cover broader distributive concerns. The other element of spatial justice that residents discussed related to adaptation decision-making.…”

Section: Interactionalmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…There is also discussion about how to achieve intergenerational fairness (Adger and Nelson 2010). With respect to spatial fairness, Walker (2009) argues for the need to "enabl[e] access to spaces… that have previously been restricted…[because] a lack of procedural justice is intimately wrapped up with a closed geography of information, access and power" (p. 37). Clearly the conceptualisation and operationalisation of spatial and temporal fairness within climate adaptation is in its infancy, and so, this study deliberately assessed whether these types of fairness help explain the development of fair local adaptation processes.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Towards fair local outcomes in adaptation to sea-level rise

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Arguments that fairness should be a guiding principle of climate change adaptation have been primarily concerned with distributive and procedural aspects of fairness, with far less attention paid to the temporal, spatial and interactional dimensions of fairness. This paper presents the results of a study that sought to understand the multiple dimensions of fairness of adaptation strategies that exist or can be developed to deal with sea-level rise. The study focused on five small communities along the south-east coast of Australia-Lakes Entrance, Seaspray, Port Albert, McLoughlins Beach and Manns Beach. Interviews were conducted with residents of the local communities to examine perceptions of current adaptation policies and their social impacts. A questionnaire was used to develop a nuanced understanding of the types of people living in these communities and their everyday lives, practices, and relationships. This enabled us to identify a range of non-material social impacts that may occur as a result of sea-level rise. Finally, focus groups were used to obtain community perspectives on the fairness of a range of potential future adaptation strategies. Together, these methods revealed that adaptation to sea-level rise is likely to affect some groups in the community significantly more than others, and in ways that will fundamentally change the nature of living in these communities. Understanding nuances in the social values of communities reveals how policies can be adapted to provide fairer outcomes for all community members through processes that create the time and space required to establish long-term working relationships between communities and government.Climatic Change

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…For example, scholars have shown how many cases of privatisation of urban water management have determined a rise in local tariffs which, ultimately, produced social stratification in terms of access to water (Heynen et al, 2006;Swyngedouw, 2004). Particular attention should therefore be given to the socio-ecological processes -based themselves on socio-metabolic relationships -through which specific social and environmental conditions are produced, conditions that can be positive for some social subjects and for some places, but not for others (Walker, 2009;Schlosberg, 2013). Debates on urban political ecologies therefore strongly resonate with discourses on environmental justice (see Bickerstaff, Bulkeley, & Painter, 2009;Reed & George, 2011).…”

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Political ecologies of a waste incinerator in Turin, Italy: Capital circulation and the production of urban natures

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2015

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“…Only recently has the issue of uneven distribution of environmental pollution among populations with different socioeconomic status entered into discussions in Europe and other continents (Walker, 2009). However, to date very little attention has been paid to this problem in the so-called transition post-communist countries of the former Soviet block (Wojtyniak et al, 2001).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%