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Reframing Climate and Environmental Justice [Introduction]

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posted on 2025-01-29, 11:43 authored by Amber Huff, Lars Otto Naess

This issue of the IDS Bulletin brings together a range of empirically grounded studies that add to – and challenge – contemporary debates on climate and environmental justice. Despite a growing focus on justice dimensions of climate and environmental change, we argue that there are still ‘blind spots’ in mainstream debates that warrant increased attention. In this brief introduction, we point to three in particular: first, a persistent failure to recognise diverse contexts and knowledges; second, a continuing failure to sufficiently appreciate the deep-seated contestations around climate and environmental justice; and third, the risks associated with ‘recovery’ and ‘emergency’ mindsets driving climate and environmental policy agendas. The articles in this collection illustrate and exemplify these issues in different ways and from a variety of methodological, philosophical, and interdisciplinary approaches and positionalities. We argue for a reframing of climate and environmental justice debates and suggest some key principles to make these ‘hidden’ aspects more visible in policy and practice.

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Institute of Development Studies

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Huff, A. and Naess, L.O. (2025) 'Introduction: Reframing Climate and Environmental Justice', IDS Bulletin 56.1A: 118–28, DOI: 10.19088/1968-2025.114

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Melissa Leach Ian Scoones

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IDS Bulletin

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56

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1A

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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Institute of Development Studies

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en

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Rural Futures

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118–128

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