Just Resilience for Europe

The paper explores the operationalisation of 'just resilience' in European climate adaptation, emphasizing the need to protect vulnerable populations who are disproportionately at risk and often excluded from adaptation processes. It identifies three core dimensions of justice—distributive, procedural, and recognition—alongside additional perspectives like intergenerational justice and intersectionality, to inform the development of goals and indicators for monitoring progress in line with EU policies such as the European Green Deal.

• Justice is a critical component of climate adaptation because vulnerable people and systems face disproportionate risks from climate change and typically possess fewer capabilities to adapt, often leading to their exclusion from adaptation processes and benefits.
• The European policy framework, including the EU Strategy on Climate Adaptation, the European Green Deal, and the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change, incorporates the principles of 'leaving no one behind' and just resilience. In these policies, resilience is defined more broadly than adaptation, encompassing the ability of society and natural systems to persist, adapt, and transform during disruptions.
• Operationalising just resilience in Europe can be informed by three core dimensions of justice: distributive justice (distribution of effects and benefits), procedural justice (fairness of decision-making), and recognition justice (acknowledgment of diverse values and worldviews). Other relevant perspectives for developing measurement indicators include intersectionality, intergenerational justice, and the safeguarding of nature's intrinsic values.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2023). Just Resilience for Europe. https://www.sei.org/publications/just-resilience-for-europe/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Just Resilience for Europe. 2023. https://www.sei.org/publications/just-resilience-for-europe/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2023just, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Just Resilience for Europe}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2023}, month = may, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/just-resilience-for-europe/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }