Global Climate Crisis

Edited by Hoda Mahmoudi, Research Professor and Chair and Kate Seaman, Assistant Director, The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace, University of Maryland, USA

• Contents1 Introduction: seeking environmental justice andclimate equality 1Hoda Mahmoudi and Kate Seaman2 Engaging ethically with narratives fromhistorically marginalized cultures in response toclimate change 20Ben Mylius3 Urban heat islands and associated health effectsfor vulnerable populations: exploring data,technology, and community-engaged research toadvance health equity 42Na’Taki Osborne Jelks and JC Gonzalez4 Sexism and sustainability: women, feminism, andthe response to the climate crisis 64Tiffani Betts Razavi5 Situated ecologies of attention as a pathway forsocially just climate policy 91Melissa Nursey-Bray, Shoko Yoneyama, AnnaSzorenyi, Anna Grage, Celeste Hill, ArianeGienger and Vera Storp6 Reflections on the possibility of a global climatejustice movement from the US-Mexico border:justicia ambiental al límite 119Kyle Haines7 Conclusion: working through the complexity ofenvironmental justice 145Kate Seaman and Hoda Mahmoudi

‘Interdisciplinary in scope, Global Climate Crisis: Seeking Environmental Justice and Climate Equality is invaluable to students and scholars of climate change; environmental governance, regulation, politics, and policy; international relations; sustainable development studies and human geography. It is also a useful resource for policy advisors and activists concerned with climate change and environmental justice.’