The Intersection of Just Transition, Resilience, and Climate Justice
Chapter from the book: Atalay Şimşek, S. & Karhan, G. (eds.) 2025. Current Paradigms and Practical Applications in Social Sciences.

Ayşegül Kanbak
Batman University

Synopsis

In recent years, climate change mitigation and adaptation policies have increasingly expanded beyond purely environmental objectives to incorporate concerns related to social equity and justice. Within this context, just transition, resilience, and climate justice have emerged as prominent conceptual frameworks in both academic debates and policy-making processes. Although each of these concepts functions as a key reference point on its own, they are often addressed in isolation, resulting in fragmented approaches that leave critical dimensions of climate policy insufficiently examined. This book chapter focuses on the intersections between just transition, resilience, and climate justice, and examines how their integration can offer a more holistic analytical framework for the development of climate policies. The chapter demonstrates that just transition primarily addresses the fair distribution of social costs associated with the shift toward low-carbon economies; resilience emphasizes the adaptive and transformative capacities of social and institutional systems in the face of climate shocks and uncertainty; and climate justice provides the ethical and normative foundation for these processes through its distributive, procedural, and recognition-based dimensions. At the intersection of these three approaches, the concept of just resilience emerges as a comprehensive framework that reconceptualizes climate action not merely as a technical adaptation strategy or an economic transformation process, but as a normative project grounded in social equity, participation, and solidarity. This chapter argues that such an integrated perspective plays a critical role in making the social dimensions of climate policies more visible and in supporting the development of more inclusive, just, and sustainable policy designs.

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Kanbak, A. (2025). The Intersection of Just Transition, Resilience, and Climate Justice. In: Atalay Şimşek, S. & Karhan, G. (eds.), Current Paradigms and Practical Applications in Social Sciences. Özgür Publications. DOI: https://doi.org/10.58830/ozgur.pub1130.c4617

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December 30, 2025

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