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A critical review of disproportionality in loss and damage from climate change
WIREs Climate Change ( IF 9.4 ) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 , DOI: 10.1002/wcc.770
Kelly Dorkenoo ₁ , Murray Scown _{1,

2} , Emily Boyd ₁

Affiliation

The notion of disproportionate impacts of climate change on certain groups and regions has long been a part of policy debates and scientific inquiry, and was instrumental to the emergence of the “Loss and Damage” (L&D) policy agenda in international negotiations on climate change. Yet, ‘disproportionality’ remains relatively undefined and implicit in science on loss and damage from climate change. A coherent theoretical basis of disproportionality is needed for advancing science and policy on loss and damage. It is necessary to ask: What is disproportionate, to whom, and in relation to what? We critically examine the uses of disproportionality in loss and damage scholarship by analyzing how disproportionality is treated in the literature conceptually, methodologically, and empirically. We review publications against a set of criteria derived from seminal work on disproportionality in other fields, mainly environmental justice and disaster studies that have analyzed environment–society interactions. We find disproportionality to be dynamic and multidimensional, spanning the themes of risks, impacts, and burdens. Our results show that while the concept is often used in loss and damage scholarship, its use relies on unarticulated notions of justice and often lacks conceptual, methodological and empirical grounding. Disproportionality also appears as a boundary concept, enabling critical and multiscalar explorations of historical processes that shape the uneven impacts of climate change, alongside social justice and normative claims for desired futures. This emerging area of science offers an opportunity to critically re-evaluate the conceptualization of the relationship between climate-change-related impacts, development, and inequality.

中文翻译：

对气候变化造成的损失和损害不成比例的批判性审查

气候变化对某些群体和地区的不成比例影响的概念长期以来一直是政策辩论和科学探究的一部分，并且有助于在国际气候变化谈判中出现“损失和损害”（L&D）政策议程。然而，“不成比例”在有关气候变化造成的损失和损害的科学中仍然相对不明确和隐含。推进关于损失和损害的科学和政策需要一个连贯的不成比例的理论基础。有必要问：什么是不相称的，与谁不相称，与什么相关？我们通过分析文献中如何在概念上、方法上和经验上处理不成比例性，批判性地研究不成比例性在损失和损害研究中的用途。我们根据一组源自其他领域不成比例的开创性工作的标准审查出版物，主要是分析环境与社会相互作用的环境正义和灾难研究。我们发现不成比例是动态的和多维的，跨越风险、影响和负担的主题。我们的研究结果表明，虽然这一概念经常用于损失和损害研究，但它的使用依赖于不明确的正义概念，并且往往缺乏概念、方法和经验基础。不成比例也作为一个边界概念出现，可以对塑造气候变化不均衡影响的历史过程进行批判性和多尺度探索，以及社会正义和对期望未来的规范性主张。

更新日期：2022-02-23

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