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Pillar five a just resilience is framed in honest recognition of the hard times to come. If pillar one established the boundaries, pillar five seeks to protect those boundaries. Even if a warming limit of 1.5 °C were to be achieved, the impacts and consequences for communities globally will be severe in the decades to come, with many communities already grappling with climate-related devastation. The just disruptions ideas presented under pillar five center the application of justice principles and social sustainability in community responses to disruptions of socio-economic and environmental systems.
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Based on IPCC estimates and 66% chance.
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First published in Morrissey (2021).
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For example, the management of coastal zones has traditionally been conducted in a fragmented manner, with responsibilities for coastal activities being spread across many agencies, according to Berkes (2015).
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First published in Morrissey (2021).
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Morrissey, J., Heidkamp, C.P. (2022). A Just Resilience (Pillar Five). In: Demanding Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18958-6_6
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