Abstract
This book chapter discusses how the climate injustices are experienced by poor and weak states today, particularly in the African context. The injustices lie in the long-term historical emergence of a modern (and increasingly global) world order framed by a hegemonic Westphalian state system. This state system privileges exclusive, undivided sovereignty over a bounded territory, and is known more popularly as the ‘nation state’ system.
Keywords: Climate vulnerability in Africa; climate injustice; multiple stressors (poverty, governance, institutions); education and climate change; Westphalian nation-state system; historical roots of vulnerability; global world order and sovereignty
Core Idea: Long-term historical emergence of climate injustice
Reference: Lotz-Sisitka, H. (2010). Climate Injustice: How Should Education Respond? In F. Kagawa & D. Selby (Eds.), Education and Climate Change: Living and Learning in Interesting Times (pp. 71–88). New York, NY: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203866399.