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A conceptual analysis of gendered energy care work and epistemic injustice through a case study of Zanzibar’s Solar Mamas Open
Energy and climate transitions bear an inherent risk of replicating historically embedded unjust gendered norms in the current energy regimes. Positioning our work within critical feminist scholarship, our study emphasizes the embedded nat…
Thirty-five years of research on energy and power: A landscape analysis Open
The urgent need to mitigate climate change and decarbonise the energy sector brings the risk that wider social and environmental concerns about the sustainability of energy systems are neglected. Countries may achieve decarbonization goals…
A review of the Nordic implementation of the UNFCCC Gender Action Plan Open
This report reviews the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Gender Action Plan (UNFCCC GAP) in the Nordic countries. The UNFCCC GAP aims at advancing knowledge and understanding of gender responsive …
Migration as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy: What Role do Emotions Play? Open
Climate change intersecting with complex socio-economic and political processes has produced distinctive patterns of crisis migration. However there exists a significant gap in understanding and theorizing these forms of migration creating…
Sweden’s Integrated Energy and Climate Plan: An analysis Open
Sweden has positioned itself internationally as a forerunner of sustainable energy technologies (even at the household level) and progressive climate policies in line with the Paris Agreement (Ring et al 2022). Simultaneously Sweden is glo…
Sweden’s Integrated Energy and Climate Plan: An analysis Open
Sweden has positioned itself internationally as a forerunner of sustainable energy technologies (even at the household level) and progressive climate policies in line with the Paris Agreement (Ring et al 2022). Simultaneously Sweden is glo…
Urban Climate Justice in India Open
Indian cities are especially vulnerable to climate change due to their rapid population growth, high levels of socioeconomic inequality, and the general inability of infrastructure and public services to adapt to projected impacts (Revi 20…
Barriers and enablers of local adaptive measures: a case study of Bengaluru’s informal settlement dwellers Open
Cities, with their increasing populations, are host to a range of issues including non-climatic factors due to the prevailing development paradigm, discriminatory urbanisation patterns, and weak governance structures. Climate change poses …
Recognition in urban climate justice: marginality and exclusion of migrants in Indian cities Open
This paper explores the recognitional dimensions of urban climate change justice in a development context. Through the lens of migrants in the Indian cities of Bengaluru and Surat, we highlight how experiences of environmental marginality …
Examining vulnerability in a dynamic urban setting: the case of Bangalore’s interstate migrant waste pickers Open
Understanding the causality of vulnerability is difficult to do and consequently has received insufficient attention. Root causes of vulnerability need to be understood and addressed to support adaptation that addresses climate risk and in…
View article: Inserting rights and justice into urban resilience: a focus on everyday risk
Inserting rights and justice into urban resilience: a focus on everyday risk Open
Resilience building has become a growing policy agenda, particularly for urban risk management. While much of the resilience agenda has been shaped by policies and discourses from the global North, its applicability for cities of the globa…