Loss and damage from climate change and implicit assumptions of sustainable development
Boda, Chad LU ; Faran, Turaj LU ; Scown, Murray LU ; Dorkenoo, Kelly LU
; Chaffin, Brian C.
; Nastar, Maryam
LU
and Boyd, Emily
LU
(2021)
In Climatic Change
164(1-2).
- Abstract
- Loss and damage from climate change, recognized as a unique research and policy domain through the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) in 2013, has drawn increasing attention among climate scientists and policy makers. Labelled by some as the “third pillar” of the international climate regime—along with mitigation and adaptation—it has been suggested that loss and damage has the potential to catalyze important synergies with other international agendas, particularly sustainable development. However, the specific approaches to sustainable development that inform loss and damage research and how these approaches influence research outcomes and policy recommendations remain largely unexplored. We offer a systematic analysis of the... (More)
- Loss and damage from climate change, recognized as a unique research and policy domain through the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) in 2013, has drawn increasing attention among climate scientists and policy makers. Labelled by some as the “third pillar” of the international climate regime—along with mitigation and adaptation—it has been suggested that loss and damage has the potential to catalyze important synergies with other international agendas, particularly sustainable development. However, the specific approaches to sustainable development that inform loss and damage research and how these approaches influence research outcomes and policy recommendations remain largely unexplored. We offer a systematic analysis of the assumptions of sustainable development that underpins loss and damage scholarship through a comprehensive review of peer-reviewed research on loss and damage. We demonstrate that the use of specific metrics, decision criteria, and policy prescriptions by loss and damage researchers and practitioners implies an unwitting adherence to different underlying theories of sustainable development, which in turn impact how loss and damage is conceptualized and applied. In addition to research and policy implications, our review suggests that assumptions about the aims of sustainable development determine how loss and damage is conceptualized, measured, and governed, and the human development approach currently represents the most advanced perspective on sustainable development and thus loss and damage. This review supports sustainable development as a coherent, comprehensive, and integrative framework for guiding further conceptual and empirical development of loss and damage scholarship. (Less)
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- Boda, Chad
LU
; Faran, Turaj
LU
; Scown, Murray
LU
; Dorkenoo, Kelly
LU
; Chaffin, Brian C.
; Nastar, Maryam
LU
and Boyd, Emily
LU
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- Climatic Change
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- Springer
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- 0165-0009
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10584-021-02970-z
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