Keywords:
Environmental policy-International cooperation.
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Transitional justice.
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Climatic changes-International cooperation.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
This book examines the potential of transitional justice practices to inform global climate governance. By combining these two fields the book provides a new framework through which to understand the challenges of building solidarity and collective climate action.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (209 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781351854924
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5371964
DDC:
363.73874526
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: a transitional justice approach to the climate change context -- Analogous thinking -- Outlining new approaches -- In a context of imperfect justice -- 1 From climate harms to climate action -- Climate change and justice -- Core climate justice debates -- Justice in transition -- Transitional justice in the climate context? -- Pushing the boundaries of both fields -- 2 Classic strategies for managing climate justice dilemmas -- Fair burden sharing -- Potential limitations of a fair burden sharing approach -- Green growth -- Unlocking climate action through green growth? -- Limitations of a green growth strategy for climate policy -- Let's fight it in court: using the law for climate justice -- Human rights-based approaches -- Non-human rights-based approaches -- From the ground up: climate justice activism -- Civil society organizing -- Synergies among strategies -- 3 Managing responsibility: amnesty, legal accountability, and truth recovery -- Managing responsibility in the transitional justice context -- Amnesty -- Individual prosecutions -- State and corporate accountability -- Truth commissions -- Applying responsibility measures in the climate context -- Amnesty -- Prosecution and litigation -- Individual prosecutions -- State and corporate accountability -- Truth commissions -- Institutions and commissioners -- Truth, data, and documentation -- Outcomes and recommendations -- Proposal: a truth commission on climate change -- Responsibility and climate justice -- 4 Addressing climate harms: strategies for repair -- Reparations in the transitional justice context -- Reparations in the climate context -- Identifying eligible harms -- Linking harms and reparations -- Facilitating contributions to reparations.
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Managing the reparation process -- Institutional needs for a reparative approach -- 5 Institutional reform for future-oriented climate action -- Institutional reform in transitional justice -- Nonrecurrence and institutional reform in the climate context -- Changes to legal frameworks: the Paris Agreement -- Changes to implementing institutions -- Financial mechanisms -- Due process for human development safeguards -- Adaptation and loss and damage -- Indirect changes through affiliated institutions -- Strengthening domestic climate law -- Educational programs and investments -- Building on existing institutions and norms -- 6 Transformative approaches to climate justice -- Critiques of reformism in transitional justice -- Transformative approaches in transitional justice -- Transformational justice in the climate context? -- Transformation through green growth: the convergent climate change story -- Transformation from the grassroots: the divergent climate change story -- Integrating narratives in tension -- Emergent transformative practices -- Conclusion: building solidarity across divides -- Creating new approaches along existing pathways -- Balancing idealism and pragmatism -- About the authors -- Index.
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