Dimensions and interpretations of climate justice
notes for the discussion
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https://doi.org/10.47284/cdc.v25iesp2.20119Keywords:
Climate Justice, Justice Theories, IntersectionalityAbstract
Climate justice is a rising topic, both in theory and in practice, and is part of a dispute of categories between disciplines and ideologies that seek to define it and connect it with other theories, for example. This discussion aims to permeate different readings of climate justice and discuss the historical dimensions of justice that some of these readings have adopted. From a literature review, the multiplicity of the term and the possibilities of appropriation by different actors are demonstrated. The position defended is that climate justice must be multiple and intersectional, as concluded by attention to these characteristics in the majority of studies, but also anti-systemic, because climate injustices are the reproduction of historical injustices.
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