Dr. Chuks Okereke (Oxford) and I (Colorado State University) are
putting together a couple of panels to propose for ISA 2012, April 1-4
in San Diego. Our topic is international environmental equity, as to
climate justice and/or environmental justice generally (please see our
call for papers below). As noted in the call, we particularly welcome
papers which provide guidance on how the implications of a justice
discourse may be applied in practice and those that highlight the
international political economy of environmental (in) justice.
Please contact Chuks ([email protected]) or myself
([email protected]) if you are interested.
Thanks!
Tim and Chuks
Call for Papers
ISA 2012
San Diego, California
Panels on International Environmental Equity
Contestations over justice have been one of the most prominent features
of the international environmental and climate landscape. Similarly,
competing claims over how policies may be designed to realize justice
ideals constitute some of the principal challenges facing global
environmental governance. Questions of climate and environmental justice
have also provided the impetus for the recent intense and widespread
academic engagement with the ethical issues associated with interstate
relations and the international regime. However, while demands for
scholarship on climate justice for example represent significant aspects
of the global climate governance regime, much still remains to be done
to clarify the status, implications, and best approaches for achieving
global justice generally. Moreover while issues of global environmental
equity are often addressed principally in the environmental dimension,
in reality environmental justice implicates wider issues of global
economic justice as well. There can be no durable engagement of
environmental issues without an attendant acknowledgement of the way
that economic precepts drive the very framework within which we
formulate our respective notions of global environmental equity and
fairness. It follows that significant changes in the international
economic system may well be required to actualize demands for global
environmental equity.
In these panels we aim to bring together authors who evince commitment
to the justice dimension of climate change and/or broader environmental
policy to consider pertinent theories, policies and practices that can
engender global environmental justice. These panels invite reflections
on the appropriate conceptualization and application of equity and
economic interests in global economic and environmental institutions as
well as on potential synergies, incompatibilities and trade-offs. We
particularly welcome abstracts/ papers that provide guidance on how the
implications of a justice discourse may be applied in practice and those
that highlight the international political economy of environmental (in)
justice.
