Understanding Climate and Disability Justice: Mitigating Structural Barriers to the Right to Health
Decreasing vulnerability requires understanding and addressing upstream root causes of health inequities.
climate change
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Agroecology provides an inclusive paradigm through which to advance climate justice.
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While Bangladesh’s climate-related laws and policies gesture toward inclusion, considerable gaps remain between policy and practice.
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Read more: Educating for Disability and Climate Change Educating for Disability and Climate Change
Educators have the power and responsibility to change practices now so that students benefit from climate change and disability awareness education.
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International human rights law offers a framework for coordinated climate action where all members of society have a role to play.
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Read more: Climate Resilience Planning: A Life-Saving Entry Point for Incorporating Disability Voices into Policy Climate Resilience Planning: A Life-Saving Entry Point for Incorporating Disability Voices into Policy
Incorporating disability issues into general resilience planning is not only a life-saving necessity, but also an opportunity for broader inclusion.
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Read more: Examining the Climate Change-Migration Nexus from a Disability Lens Examining the Climate Change-Migration Nexus from a Disability Lens
Growing interest in migration as a form of climate adaptation risks exacerbating existing inequalities and generating new ones for disabled people.
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Read more: Beyond Vulnerability: Disability, Epistemic Agency, and Climate Action Beyond Vulnerability: Disability, Epistemic Agency, and Climate Action
This piece highlights the failure to recognize the knowledges of disabled people as a form of epistemic injustice.
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Read more: Learning from the ‘COVID War’ Learning from the ‘COVID War’
Preventing pandemic destruction is not just a question of “how to.” It is a question of organizing power from below.
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Read more: Failures of Imagination in Public Health Policy Failures of Imagination in Public Health Policy
If public health is to prosper, we will need to overcome the after-effects of several failures of imagination.
