Climate change's social justice ramifications for NL and related policy implications.
Climate change has far-reaching impacts worldwide, and an increasing amount of literature cites the disproportionate burden climate change has on disenfranchised populations and those who have the least means to adapt. Climate change also has ramifications at multiple scales, local through provincia...
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Memorial University of Newofundland
2020
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.48336/g6aa-tn36 https://research.library.mun.ca/14542/ |
| Summary: | Climate change has far-reaching impacts worldwide, and an increasing amount of literature cites the disproportionate burden climate change has on disenfranchised populations and those who have the least means to adapt. Climate change also has ramifications at multiple scales, local through provincial, for Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), Canada. However, while there have been multiple studies of these climate change impacts in NL, there remain gaps in knowledge on how these impacts might affect different groups and communities in different ways, as well as the role provincial policy has and might play in this impact distribution. This thesis assesses potential social justice impacts of climate change for NL. It then examines existing climate change adaption policy in NL, namely the 2011 Climate Change Action Plan and 2019 The Way Forward on Climate Change in NL, and the capacities that these policies have to aid in mitigation of and/or adaptation to social justice implications of climate change. Policy measures that may assist the mitigation of and/or adaption to these implications, including interactions between policy at local and provincial scales, are also discussed. |
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