Historical redlining is associated with present day onroad transportation emissions, and is not mitigated by behaviors like increased public transportation use.
With the aim of addressing rapidly evolving complexity within urban social and environmental systems, we build on a range of literature on uncertainty in decision-making to develop the RAFT (reversibility, adaptability, flexibility and tailoring) framework.
Environmental justice organisations and actors can and have advanced collective liberation using mutual aid as a critical orientation rooted in community based care and empowerment.
We find that financialization decouples total GDP per capita from emissions per capita but fails to do so for growth from manufacture, suggesting that financialization may obfuscate the ongoing pressure that economic growth places on the environment.
Mutual aid networks of care offer models of local level adaptive strategies in the face of mass disabling events such as climate change and biodiversity loss.
Here, we consider how one prominent model of the anthropogenic forces driving environmental impacts, the STIRPAT model, incorporates considerations of inequalities. Our assessment includes exploring STIRPAT’s limitations and ways in which it can be improved.
Historical exposure to logics of extractive colonialism accounts for up to 11% of variation in emissions-development relationships across nations, and moderates the association that emissions per capita, emissions per dollar, and total emissions have with development.
Renewable sources of electricity do not displace fossil fuels over time across nations, though evidence of displacement is found in nuclear capable nations.