{"id":348,"date":"2021-11-18T05:14:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T13:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/?p=348"},"modified":"2021-11-18T05:14:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T13:14:38","slug":"climate-justice-torontos-resilience-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/climate-justice-torontos-resilience-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Justice &amp; Toronto&#8217;s Resilience Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI said the other day that able-bodied people lack the imagination to think inclusively. So we have to challenge ourselves to be more creative with our sustainability solutions\u201d (Wright, 2020)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>As I move throughout my education in climate action leadership, I am continuously reminded of the <em>responsibility <\/em>those within climate adaptation spaces have to approach solutions with an equity framework. In my own community there is impressive climate adaptation planning underway, which is reflected in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/ext\/digital_comm\/pdfs\/resilience-office\/toronto-resilience-strategy.pdf\"><em>Toronto\u2019s First Resilience Strategy<\/em><\/a>. The report calls for \u201cpreparing our most vulnerable residents\u201d for the effects of climate change, adapting in ways that put the \u201cmost vulnerable members of our society first, because they are usually affected the most by both shocks and stresses\u201d, confronting \u201cour uncomfortable histories&#8221; and &#8220;promoting prosperity through new relationships with neighbourhoods and residents that often find themselves outside of the decision-making process\u201d (City of Toronto, 2019, p.21).\u00a0The report also calls for this link between resilience and equity to be realized by including \u201cequity seeking and other vulnerable groups in decision making\u201d and by continuously asking \u201d\u2018who is missing from the room?\u2019\u201d (City of Toronto, 2019, p. 24). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within Catherine Jampel\u2019s article \u201cIntersections of disability justice, racial justice and environmental justice\u201d, the author calls for environmental justice which is rooted in intersectionality and the understanding that there is no \u201c\u2018single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives\u2019\u201d (Jampel, 2018, p.2). Ensuring that community members of varying, intersectional identities and experiences are not simply consulted throughout the City of Toronto\u2019s planning, but in significant decision-making positions will be integral in ensuring the success of the Resilience Strategy. As Jampel states, \u201cliberation does not occur for multiple marginalized people without dismantling multiple systems of oppression, and explanations of social phenomena are incomplete if they do not consider those multiple systems\u201d (Jampel, 2018, p.3). Ensuring that community members have the ability to name and dismantle these systems is integral and opens up the city for a future which is innovative, equitable and resilient. As expressed by Paralympian, physiologist and writer Hannah Dines, \u201cLimited mobility does not have to mean a limited life, but new climate change policies must recognize the distinction if we are to maintain any level of disabled liberation\u201d (Dines, 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Works Cited<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dines, H. (2019). The climate revolution must be accessible \u2013 this fight belongs to disabled people too. <em>The Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jampel, C. (2018). Intersections of disability justice, racial justice and environmental justice. <em>Environmental Sociology.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Wright, E. (2020). Climate Change, Disability, and Eco-Ableism: Why we need to be inclusive to save the planet. UX Collective.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI said the other day that able-bodied people lack the imagination to think inclusively. So we have to challenge ourselves to be more creative with our sustainability solutions\u201d (Wright, 2020) As I move throughout my education in climate action leadership, I am continuously reminded of the responsibility those within climate adaptation spaces have to approach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cals502","et-bg-layout-dark","et-white-bg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}