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This digital collection includes papers given during the Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene Symposium held in 2017, Day 1 tracks: Track 1: Food Justice Transitions: Envisioning Real Utopias from Field to Fork; Track 2: Justice and Geoengineering in the Anthropocene; Track 3: U.S. Federal Panel on Agency, Inter-agency, and International EJ Initiatives; Track 4: Environmental Justice, Violence and Historical Exclusion; Track 5: Environmental Justice & the Clean Power Plan; Track 6: Ecological Economics and Climate Justice in the Anthropocene; Track 7: Environmental Justice In and From the Global South; Track 8: Justice Beyond Humans: The Place of Nonhumans in Environmental Justice; Track 9: Environmental Justice in Transnational History; Track 10: Just Transitions; Track 11: Environmental Injustice & Health: From Data to Policy, From Community Narratives to Mobilization; Track 12: Energy Justice; Track 13: Climate Adaption and Environmental Justice in the Boston Region; Track 14: Intergenerational Justice; Track 15: Work, Workers and Environmental Justice; Track 16: Engaged Environmental Justice Research: Doing Post-Normal Science in a Post-Truth Era.

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    Sustainable commons governance and climate justice: ecofeminist insights and indigenous traditions
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2017-07-24) Perkins, Patricia E., author
    This paper brings together North American and global examples of traditional and new forms of "commons" which help to meet local subsistence needs and develop communities' social, political and economic resilience in the face of climate change. Commons governance represents a dynamic means of risk reduction which addresses the shortcomings of both market and state-oriented governance and is becoming increasingly relevant as climate change threatens human subsistence worldwide. Indigenous traditions and leadership are central to this (re-)emergent phenomenon. Drawing on the literatures of ecological economics, political ecology, and ecofeminism as well as the work of Elinor Ostrom to situate these ideas, this paper sets out a framework for assessing communities' climate resilience from an equity standpoint, in terms of their commons-readiness. Some of the indicators involved in this framework include each community's openness/boundaries, historical experiences and aptitudes with commons, indigenous leaders and integration of indigenous culture, social networks and social learning, political and economic autonomy, income distribution, and women's empowerment. Climate justice -- improving the local and global equity of climate change impacts and procedures – advances in parallel with commons development; this paper also discusses scale issues related to local, regional, watershed-based, international and global commons and climate justice.