Description
Book SynopsisClimate catastrophe throws into stark relief the extreme, life-threatening inequalities that affect millions of lives worldwide. The poorest and most marginalized, who are least responsible for the consumption and emissions that create climate change, are the first and hardest impacted, and the least able to protect themselves. Climate justice is simultaneously a movement, an academic field, an organizing principle, and a political demand. Building climate justice is a matter of life and death.
Climate Justice and Participatory Research offers ideas and inspiration for climate justice through the creation of research, knowledge, and livelihood commons and community-based climate resilience. It brings together articulations of the what, why, and how of climate justice through the voices of energetic and motivated scholar-activists who are building alliances across Latin America, Africa, and Canada. Exemplifying socio-ecological transformation through equitable public engagement, these scholars, climate activists, community educators, and teachers come together to share their stories of participatory research and collective action.
Grounded in experience and processes that are currently underway, Climate Justice and Participatory Research explores the value of common assets, collective action, environmental protection, and equitable partnerships between local community experts and academic allies. It demonstrates the negative effects of climate-related actions that run roughshod over local communities' interests and wellbeing, and acknowledges the myriad challenges of participatory research. This is a work committed to the practical work of transforming socio-economies from situations of vulnerability to collective wellbeing.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
Participatory Research, Knowledge, and Livelihoods: Commons Build Community-Based Climate Resilience
Patricia E. Perkins
- Part I: Knowledge Commons
- Putting Ethos into Practice: Climate Justice Research in the Global Knowledge Commons
Kathryn Wells
- Integrating Citizen Science Observations in Climate Mapping: Lessons from Coastal Zone Geovisualization in Chilean Patagonia and the Brazilian Southeast
Allan Yu Iwama, Francisco Brañas, David Núñez, Daniela Collao, Ramin Soleymani-Fard, Carla Lanyon, Adrien Tofighi-Niaki, Lara da Silva, Petra Benyei, Francisco Ther, and Sarita Albagli
- Part II: Food, Land, and Agricultural Commons
- Enhancing Local Sensitives to Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Capacities of Smallholder Farmers: Community-Based Participatory Research
Ayansina Ayanlade, Abinmola Oluwaranti, Adewale M. Olayiwola, Oluwatoyin S. Ayanlade, Margaret O. Jegede, Lemlem F. Weldemariam, Moses O. Olawole, and Adefunke F.O. Ayinde
- The Oil-Palm Sector in the Climate Crisis: Resilience and Social Justice in the Municipality of Ngwéi (Littoral-Cameroon)
Guy Donald Abassombe, Mesmin Tchindjang, and Vadel Eneckdem Tsopgni
- Common-Pool Resources and the Governance of Community Gardens: Experimenting with Participatory Research in São Paulo, Brazil
Kátia Carolino and Marcos Sorrentino
- Linking Soil and Social-Ecological Resilience with the Climate Agenda: Perspectives from Quilombola communities in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil
Marcondes Coelho, Eduardo C. da Silva Neto, Emerson Ramos, Ronaldo dos Santos, Ana P. D. Turetta, Marcos Gervasio Pereira, and Eliane M.R. da Silva
- Commons Governance and Climate Resilience: Intergovernmental Relationships in the Guapiruvu Community, Brazil
Aico Nogueira
- Part III: Water and Fisheries Commons
- Mining and Water Insecurity in Brazil: Geo-Participatory Dam Mapping (MapGB) and Community Empowerment
Daniela Campolina and Lussandra Gianasi
- Investigating Citizen Participation in Plans for Lamu Port, Kenya
Solomon Njenga
- Hydroelecticity, Water Rights, Community Mapping, and Indigenous Toponyms in the Queuco River Basin
Camila Bañales-Seguel
- Sentinels of Carelmapu: Participatory Community Monitoring to Protect Indigenous Marinescapes in Southern Chile
Francisco Araos, Florencia Diestre, Jaime Cursach, Joaquin Almonacid, Gonzalo Zamorano, Wladimir Riquelme, Francisco Brañas, José Molin-Hueichán, Darlys Vargas, Manuel Lemus, Daniella Ruiz, and Claudio Oyarzún
- Inequality in Water Access for South Africa's Small-Scale Farmers amid a Climate Crisis: Past and Present Injustices in a Legal Context
Patience Mukuyu and Mary Galvin
- Activist Citizen Science: Building Water Justice in South Africa
Ferrial Adam
- Part IV: Collective Resilience for Climate Justice
- Conflicting Perspectives in the Global South Just Transition Movement: A Case Study of Mpumalanga Coal Region in South Africa
Andries Motau
- Saving Our "Common Home:" A critical Analysis of the "For Our Common Home" Campaign in Alberta
Chrislain Eric Kenfack
- Action Research for Climate Justice: Challenging the Carbon Market and False Climate Solutions in Mozambique
Natacha Bruna and Boaventura Monjane
- Youth Climate Activism: Mobilizing for a Common Future
Patricia Figueiredo Walker
- Index
