This volume sets out to address current gaps in research thinking on how material and non-material factors work in tandem to inhibit effective sustainable development transitions across differing world settings. It will showcase a body of research that accounts for the experiences of cohorts residing in various world regions and provide the reader with a series of conceptual tools with which to understand major factors currently shaping responses to climate change. In that, it responds directly to calls by various international agencies for research communities to provide more detailed evidence of how climate change not only adds to existing societal burdens but also creates newer ones and critically reconsider strategies for realizing UN Sustainable Development Goals in ways that bring SDG 10 on inequalities and SDG 13 on climate action, in particular, together more strategically.
With a heavy emphasis on the need for communities to abandon many established socio-cultural practices and adjust comprehensively to a series of new climate imperatives (social, environmental, economic, etc.), little attention is paid to the potential risks these changes pose to the health and wellbeing of vulnerable cohorts. As these risks may constitute considerable barriers to long-term resilience-building and effective climate actions, the difficulties encountered by different communities need to be better understood and accounted for in climate change research. This volume sets out to examine these issues and consider more equitable approaches to climate change resilience-building.
Chapter
1. Introduction (Tracey Skillington & Annalisa Setti).- Part I:
The Climate Resilient City.
Chapter
2. Sanctioning Homelessness, Enabling
Environmental Risk (Stephen Przybylinski).
Chapter
3. A peoples-centered
approach to the climate resilient city: Addressing inequalities in access to
nature and its restorative benefits (Tracey Skillington & Johanna Marie
Kirsch).
Chapter
4. Building resilience and synergies for healthy air
practices through community engaged research: Learnings from the BEHAV-I-AIR
project in Cork City, Ireland (Marica Cassarino, Roberto Cibin, Dean S.
Venables & Denise Cahill & Kevin Ryan).
Chapter
5. Resilient cities of the
future: What will they look like? (Tadhg E. MacIntyre, Raegan Thompson and
Niamh Ní Chongahile).- Part II: Resilience building across generations.-
Chapter
6. A dynamic approach to climate resilience in ageing (Annalisa
Setti, Andrea Stitzel, Giovanni Ottoboni & Niamh McCarthy).
Chapter 7.Like
I couldn't turn into like an eco-warrior overnight, you know?: Imaginaries
of Climate Change (Angela Veale, James ORourke & Jasmine Byrne).
Chapter
8.
Being naturally connected: The role of Environmental Sensitivity in
understanding the human-nature relationship (Alessandra Sperati, Maria
Spinelli, Mirco Fasolo, Francesca Lionetti).- Part III: The Resilience
Strategies of Indigenous Communities.
Chapter
9. Indigenous Climate
Inequalities: A case study with the Arctic Sámi Peoples (Reetta Toivanen).-
Chapter
10. Human-Reindeer Wellbeing under Threat in the Arctic: the Case of
Kola Peninsula Indigenous Communities (Vladislava Vladimirova).
Chapter
11.
Justice, Resilience, and Indigenous Land Dispossession in the Green
Transition: Perspectives from Forest Sámi Communities in Sweden (Johanna
Ohlsson & Sara Lindh).
Chapter
12. Examining Values and Resilience: Climate
Change, SAR and Northern Communities (Corine Wood-Donnelly).
Chapter
13.
Interrogating Resilience: A Critical Analysis of its Use and Impact on
Indigenous Discourses in Australia and the Arctic (Sakshi & Darran
McCauley).- Part IV: Resilient Farming Communities.
Chapter
14. Dryness of
Lake Urmia in Iran and its impact on farmers displacement (Amin Sharifi
Isaloo).
Chapter
15. Aran Islands: The challenge of maintaining grassland
biodiversity in future climate change led policy structure (Patrick Mc
Gurn).
Chapter
16. Advisory support for Farmer Wellbeing and Climate Change
Mitigation (John McNamara & Tom ODwyer).
Chapter
17. Conclusion (Tracey
Skillington & Annalisa Setti).
Tracey Skillington is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University College Cork. Her research focuses on various justice dimensions of climate change and related human rights issues, intergenerational inequalities and new democratic procedures.
Annalisa Setti is a Senior Lecturer at UCCs School of Applied Psychology and Environmental Research Institute. She explores how individuals interact with the environment, including sensory sensitivity, nature connectedness, and psychological resilience to climate change.
