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Climate change is one of the central challenges facing African countries and theirpeople. Unless concerted efforts are made worldwide very soon to reduce emissions,climate change impacts are likely to be devastating. Higher-end temperaturescenarios present a dark future jeopardising secure access to basic needs such aswater, food, housing and a healthy environment, as well as adding to the stressorson natural resources.Those who will suffer the most from the challenges posed by climate change havecontributed the least to the problem in the first place: the poor and vulnerable,especially in developing countries. To make matters worse, these are the samepeople who have benefited the least from modernisation and industrialisation andhave a relatively small carbon footprint. This is a double injustice.While climate justice and social justice are difficult to disentangle, neither the legalsystems nor the main actors framing the dominant climate change narratives seemsufficiently attentive to the double-edged justice questions posed by the impacts ofclimate change on poor communities.This book attempts to fill some of the gaps in climate change scholarship by focusingon the climate narratives emerging in and around South Africa - how they relate tobroader issues of social justice and resource allocation, and the role of rights talkand legal strategies in the framing of the problems and solutions. In doing so, thebook contributes to developing rights- and justice-based strategies for translatingknowledge into action.The authors approach the issues from different discourses and practices, but all havein common the integration between fairness related to environmental issues andfairness related to socio-economic issues.
