Climate 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.
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Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Half Title Page 2
- Full Title Page 4
- Copyright Page 5
- Contents 6
- List of Maps 10
- Introduction | ParticipatoryResearch, Knowledge andLivelihood Commons Build Community-Based Climate Resilience 12
- PART 1: Knowledge Commons 20
- 1 | Putting Ethos into Practice: Climate Justice Research in the Global Knowledge Commons 22
- 2 | Integrating Citizen Science Observations in Climate Mapping: Lessons from Coastal-Zone Geovisualization in Chilean Patagonia and the Brazilian Southeast 36
- PART II: Food, Land, and Agricultural Commons 56
- 3 | Enhancing Local Sensitivities to Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Capacities of Smallholder Farmers: Community-Based Participatory Research 58
- 4 | The Oil Palm Sector in the Climate Crisis: Resilience and Social Justice in the Commune of Ngwéi (Littoral-Cameroon) 80
- 5 | Common-Pool Resources and the Governance of Community Gardens: Experimenting with Participatory Research in São Paulo, Brazil 110
- 6 | Linking Soil and Social-Ecological Resilience with the Climate Agenda: Perspectives from Quilombola Communitiesin the Atlantic Forest, Brazil 126
- 7 | Commons Governance and Climate Resilience: Intergovernmental Relationships in the Guapiruvu Community, Brazil 148
- PART III: Water and Fisheries Commons 164
- 8 | Mining and Water Insecurity in Brazil: Geo-Participatory Dam Mapping (MapGD) and Community Empowerment 166
- 9 | Investigating Citizen Participation in Plans for Lamu Port, Kenya 188
- 10 | Hydroelectricity, Water Rights, Community Mapping, and Indigenous Toponyms in the Queuco River Basin 218
- 11 | Sentinels of Carelmapu: Participatory Community Monitoring to Protect Indigenous Marinescapes in Southern Chile 234
- 12 | Inequality in Water Accessfor South Africa’s Small-Scale Farmers Amid a Climate Crisis: Past and Present Injustices in a Legal Context 250
- 13 | Activist Citizen Science: Building Water Justice in South Africa 270
- PART IV: Collective Resilience for Climate Justice 290
- 14 | Conflicting Perspectives in the Global South Just Transition Movement: A Case Study of the Mpumalanga Coal Region in South Africa 292
- 15 | Saving Our “Common Home”: A Critical Analysis of the “For Our Common Home” Campaignin Alberta 308
- 16 | Action Research for Climate Justice: Challenging the Carbon Market and False Climate Solutions in Mozambique 328
- 17 | Youth Climate Activism: Mobilizing for a Common Future 354
- List of Contributors 372
- Index 380
- Back Cover 398
