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<br>Special Issue in Sustainability: Ethics of Climate Adaptation
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<br>It is now widely accepted by climate scientists that climate change requires
<br>both mitigation actions to reduce climate change and adaptation to cope with
<br>its effects, such as increased droughts, heat waves, and flooding. In recent
<br>years, resilience has emerged as one of the leading paradigms for adaptation
<br>policies. These policies prompt important ethical questions. First, climate
<br>adaptation and resilience policies establish a role division in terms of who
<br>has to do what, with that settling questions about which parties are included
<br>and excluded, and which parties are beneficiaries, victimized, and forgotten.
<br>These policies confront us with strong queries about social justice and
<br>responsibility, necessitating critical reflection. Second, addressing the
<br>different effects of climate change may require conflicting interventions. For
<br>example, strategies to prevent flooding may conflict with drought strategies
<br>or ecological objectives. This prompts questions about how to reconcile or
<br>prioritize these different interventions and about whose claims to
<br>acknowledge. Additionally, addressing issues of climate change involves a
<br>long-term planning orientation taking place at different territorial scales.
<br>This may shift the focus away from the everyday environmental justice
<br>struggles that local communities are currently struggling with. Third, climate
<br>adaptation policies demand new kinds of solutions, which to a large extent are
<br>informed by scientific expertise. The way these science-based activities
<br>affect matters of social justice often seem to focus mainly on the
<br>effectiveness of policies instead of their legitimacy. This calls for critical
<br>analysis of the interwoven character of scientific knowledge development,
<br>policy-making, and societal impacts, and particularly the epistemic injustices
<br>that emerge when local knowledge is dismissed.
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<br>This Special Issue aims to address the different ethical questions raised by
<br>climate adaptation from a multidisciplinary angle. We especially welcome
<br>papers on the following topics:
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<br>* The inclusion and exclusion of specific social groups in climate
<br>politics;
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<br>* The designation of responsibilities to actors regarding climate
<br>adaptation and resilience policies;
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<br>* Scalar politics in climate adaptation policy, as climate change issues
<br>transcend geographical, administrative, and temporal scales;
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<br>* The conceptual and/or empirical influence of resilience studies on
<br>climate adaptation policies and the impact of social justice;
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<br>* Questions of epistemic justice and the role of local knowledge in
<br>climate adaptation and resilience policies;
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<br>* Quantitative approaches that allow for modelling ethical
<br>considerations in climate adaptation and resilience policies.
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<br>For more information: https://www.mdpi.com/si/43526
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<br>Prof. Dr. Neelke Doorn
<br>Dr. Udo Pesch
<br>Guest Editors
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<br>Prof.dr.mr.ir. Neelke Doorn
<br>TU Delft
<br>Professor Ethics of Water Engineering
<br>Director of Education Faculty Technology, Policy and Management
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<br>Department of Values, Technology and Innovation
<br>Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management
<br>Jaffalaan 5
<br>2628 BX Delft
<br>P.O. Box 5015
<br>2600 GA Delft
<br>The Netherlands
<br>+31 (0) 15 2788059
<br>N.Doorn@tudelft.nl
<br>www.ethicsandtechnology.eu/doorn
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