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Typhoons, Climate Change, and Climate Injustice in the Philippines
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Abstract This article discusses how climate change causes an intensification of Western North Pacific typhoons and how the effects of such amplified typhoons upon the Philippines exemplify the concept of climate injustice. Using a political ecology approach, the article begins with an examination of the conc... view more
This article discusses how climate change causes an intensification of Western North Pacific typhoons and how the effects of such amplified typhoons upon the Philippines exemplify the concept of climate injustice. Using a political ecology approach, the article begins with an examination of the concepts of climate change, climate injustice, background injustice, and compound injustice. This is followed by an examination of the causes of typhoons, the vulnerability of the Philippines to typhoons, and how climate change may generate stronger typhoons. These stronger typhoons that may be produced by climate change, and the risks that they pose to the Philippines, are an example of climate injustice, while the legacy of colonial exploitation in the Philippines is an example of background injustice. The struggles faced by the Philippines in coping with climate change augmented typhoons are an example of compound injustice. The article concludes with a discussion of the reluctance of developed countries, such as Australia, Canada, and the United States, to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions notwithstanding the consequences these emissions have on countries such as the Philippines.... view less
Keywords
political factors; geographical factors; climate change; social inequality; Southeast Asia; environment; ecology; natural disaster; Philippines
Classification
Ecology, Environment
Free Keywords
Climate Injustice; Political Ecology; Typhoons; Environmental Science
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 117-139
Journal
ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 11 (2018) 1
Issue topic
The Political Economy of New Authoritarianism
ISSN
1999-253X
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0