Davies Anna, Hooks Gregory, Knox-Hayes Janelle, Liévanos Raoul S
Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Department of Sociology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Camb J Reg Econ Soc. 2020 Aug 20:rsaa016. doi: 10.1093/cjres/rsaa016.
Anthropogenic climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of the physical threats to human and planetary wellbeing. However, climate change risks, and their interaction with other "riskscapes", remain understudied. Riskscapes encompass different viewpoints on the threat of loss across space, time, individuals and collectives. This Special Issue of the enhances our understanding of the multifaceted and interlocking dimensions of climate change and riskscapes. It brings together rigorous and critical international scholarship across diverse realms on inquiry under two, interlinked, themes: (i) governance and institutional responses and (ii) vulnerabilities and inequalities. The contributors offer a forceful reminder that when considering climate change, social justice principles cannot be appended after the fact. Climate change adaptation and mitigation pose complex and interdependent social and ethical dilemmas that will need to be explicitly confronted in any activation of "Green New Deal" strategies currently being developed internationally. Such critical insights about the layered, unequal and institutional dimensions of risks are of paramount import when considering other riskscapes pertaining to conflict and war, displaced people and pandemics like the 2019-2020 global COVID-19 pandemic.
人为气候变化正在增加对人类和地球福祉构成的自然威胁的频率和严重程度。然而，气候变化风险及其与其他“风险格局”的相互作用仍未得到充分研究。风险格局涵盖了对跨越空间、时间、个人和集体的损失威胁的不同观点。本期特刊增进了我们对气候变化和风险格局多方面且相互关联维度的理解。它汇集了来自不同领域的严谨且具批判性的国际学术研究，围绕两个相互关联的主题展开探讨：（一）治理与制度应对；（二）脆弱性与不平等。撰稿人有力地提醒我们，在考虑气候变化时，社会正义原则不能事后追加。气候变化的适应和缓解带来了复杂且相互依存的社会和伦理困境，在当前国际上正在制定的任何“绿色新政”战略的实施过程中，都需要明确面对这些困境。在考虑与冲突和战争、流离失所者以及像2019 - 2020年全球新冠疫情这样的大流行病相关的其他风险格局时，关于风险的分层、不平等和制度维度的此类关键见解至关重要。
