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Special Issue in Sustainability: Ethics of Climate Adaptation







It is now widely accepted by climate scientists that climate change requires

both mitigation actions to reduce climate change and adaptation to cope with

its effects, such as increased droughts, heat waves, and flooding. In recent

years, resilience has emerged as one of the leading paradigms for adaptation

policies. These policies prompt important ethical questions. First, climate

adaptation and resilience policies establish a role division in terms of who

has to do what, with that settling questions about which parties are included

and excluded, and which parties are beneficiaries, victimized, and forgotten.

These policies confront us with strong queries about social justice and

responsibility, necessitating critical reflection. Second, addressing the

different effects of climate change may require conflicting interventions. For

example, strategies to prevent flooding may conflict with drought strategies

or ecological objectives. This prompts questions about how to reconcile or

prioritize these different interventions and about whose claims to

acknowledge. Additionally, addressing issues of climate change involves a

long-term planning orientation taking place at different territorial scales.

This may shift the focus away from the everyday environmental justice

struggles that local communities are currently struggling with. Third, climate

adaptation policies demand new kinds of solutions, which to a large extent are

informed by scientific expertise. The way these science-based activities

affect matters of social justice often seem to focus mainly on the

effectiveness of policies instead of their legitimacy. This calls for critical

analysis of the interwoven character of scientific knowledge development,

policy-making, and societal impacts, and particularly the epistemic injustices

that emerge when local knowledge is dismissed.







This Special Issue aims to address the different ethical questions raised by

climate adaptation from a multidisciplinary angle. We especially welcome

papers on the following topics:



*       The inclusion and exclusion of specific social groups in climate

politics;



*       The designation of responsibilities to actors regarding climate

adaptation and resilience policies;



*       Scalar politics in climate adaptation policy, as climate change issues

transcend geographical, administrative, and temporal scales;



*       The conceptual and/or empirical influence of resilience studies on

climate adaptation policies and the impact of social justice;



*       Questions of epistemic justice and the role of local knowledge in

climate adaptation and resilience policies;



*       Quantitative approaches that allow for modelling ethical

considerations in climate adaptation and resilience policies.







For more information: https://www.mdpi.com/si/43526







Prof. Dr. Neelke Doorn

Dr. Udo Pesch

Guest Editors







Prof.dr.mr.ir. Neelke Doorn

TU Delft

Professor Ethics of Water Engineering

Director of Education Faculty Technology, Policy and Management



Department of Values, Technology and Innovation

Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management

Jaffalaan 5

2628 BX Delft

P.O. Box 5015

2600 GA Delft

The Netherlands

+31 (0) 15 2788059

N.Doorn@tudelft.nl

www.ethicsandtechnology.eu/doorn

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