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Recognising Recognition in Climate Justice

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posted on 2024-09-05, 21:44 authored by Tor A. Benjaminsen, Hanne Svarstad, Iselin Shaw of Tordarroch
We argue that in order to achieve climate justice, recognition needs to be given more attention in climate research, discourse, and policies. Through the analysis of three examples, we identify formal and discursive recognition as central types of recognition in climate issues, and we show how powerful actors exercise their power in ways that cause climate injustice through formal and discursive misrecognition of poor and vulnerable groups. The three examples discussed are climate mitigation through forest conservation (REDD), the Great Green Wall project in Sahel, and the narrative about climate change as a contributing factor to the Syrian war.

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Benjaminsen, T.A.; Svarstad, H. and Shaw of Tordarroch, I. (2021) ‘Recognising Recognition in Climate Justice’, IDS Bulletin, Online First, DOI: 10.19088/1968-2021.127

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Tanzania; Sahel; Syria

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