Synopsis:

JUSTCLIME focuses on water, forest and pastoral conflicts in Nepal, Kenya and Nicaragua and how they shape resilience outcomes. The project redefines ‘climate resilient development pathways’ to better account for how existing inequalities and conflicts shape sustainable development and climate resilience efforts. While many in the sustainability space have framed social justice and environmental sustainability as marking the end of conflicts, an as normative end points for development, this project rejects such a view. Instead, the work shows how struggles over justice are precisely where resilience emerges, meaning that conflict is critical for the unfolding of more sustainable sociomaterial futures. The overall research question asked is, how can new, fair and inclusive mechanisms of conflict resolution on forest and water resources be fostered to build resilience in the face of climatic changes?