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15 Saving Our “Common Home”: A Critical Analysis of the “For Our Common Home” Campaign in Alberta

© Patricia E. Perkins

© Patricia E. Perkins

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of Maps ix
  4. Introduction: Participatory Research, Knowledge and Livelihood Commons Build Community-Based Climate Resilience 1
  5. Knowledge Commons
  6. Putting Ethos into Practice: Climate Justice Research in the Global Knowledge Commons 11
  7. Integrating Citizen Science Observations in Climate Mapping: Lessons from Coastal-Zone Geovisualization in Chilean Patagonia and the Brazilian Southeast 25
  8. Food, Land, and Agricultural Commons
  9. Enhancing Local Sensitivities to Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Capacities of Smallholder Farmers: Community-Based Participatory Research 47
  10. The Oil Palm Sector in the Climate Crisis: Resilience and Social Justice in the Commune of Ngwéi (Littoral-Cameroon) 69
  11. Common-Pool Resources and the Governance of Community Gardens: Experimenting with Participatory Research in São Paulo, Brazil 99
  12. Linking Soil and Social-Ecological Resilience with the Climate Agenda: Perspectives from Quilombola Communities in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil 115
  13. Commons Governance and Climate Resilience: Intergovernmental Relationships in the Guapiruvu Community, Brazil 137
  14. Water and Fisheries Commons
  15. Mining and Water Insecurity in Brazil: Geo-Participatory Dam Mapping (MapGD) and Community Empowerment 155
  16. Investigating Citizen Participation in Plans for Lamu Port, Kenya 177
  17. Hydroelectricity, Water Rights, Community Mapping, and Indigenous Toponyms in the Queuco River Basin 207
  18. Sentinels of Carelmapu: Participatory Community Monitoring to Protect Indigenous Marinescapes in Southern Chile 223
  19. Inequality in Water Access for South Africa’s Small-Scale Farmers Amid a Climate Crisis: Past and Present Injustices in a Legal Context 239
  20. Activist Citizen Science: Building Water Justice in South Africa 259
  21. Collective Resilience for Climate Justice
  22. Conflicting Perspectives in the Global South Just Transition Movement: A Case Study of the Mpumalanga Coal Region in South Africa 281
  23. Saving Our “Common Home”: A Critical Analysis of the “For Our Common Home” Campaign in Alberta 297
  24. Action Research for Climate Justice: Challenging the Carbon Market and False Climate Solutions in Mozambique 317
  25. Youth Climate Activism: Mobilizing for a Common Future 343
  26. List of Contributors 361
  27. Index 369
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