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ReviewClimatic change2023

Climate justice in higher education: a proposed paradigm shift towards a transformative role for colleges and universities.

Alaina Kinol, Elijah Miller, Hannah Axtell, Ilana Hirschfeld, Sophie Leggett, Yutong Si, Jennie C Stephens

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In one paragraph

Review in Climatic change, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
8.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alaina KinolNortheastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Boston, MA USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3058-699X
Elijah MillerNortheastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Boston, MA USA.
Hannah AxtellNortheastern University College of Science, Boston, MA USA.
Ilana HirschfeldNortheastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Boston, MA USA.
Sophie LeggettNortheastern University College of Science, Boston, MA USA.
Yutong SiNortheastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Boston, MA USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4937-1721
Jennie C StephensNortheastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Boston, MA USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0386-8115
Northeastern University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Moving beyond technocratic approaches to climate action, climate justice articulates a paradigm shift in how organizations think about their response to the climate crisis. This paper makes a conceptual contribution by exploring the potential of this paradigm shift in higher education. Through a commitment to advancing transformative climate justice, colleges and universities around the world could realign and redefine their priorities in teaching, research, and community engagement to shape a more just, stable, and healthy future. As inequitable climate vulnerabilities increase, higher education has multiple emerging opportunities to resist, reverse, and repair climate injustices and related socioeconomic and health disparities. Rather than continuing to perpetuate the concentration of wealth and power by promoting climate isolationism's narrow focus on technological innovation and by prioritizing the financial success of alumni and the institution, colleges and universities have an opportunity to leverage their unique role as powerful anchor institutions to demonstrate climate justice innovations and catalyze social change toward a more equitable, renewable-based future. This paper explores how higher education can advance societal transformation toward climate justice, by teaching climate engagement, supporting impactful justice-centered research, embracing non-extractive hiring and purchasing practices, and integrating community-engaged climate justice innovations across campus operations. Two climate justice frameworks, Green New Deal-type policies and energy democracy, provide structure for reviewing a breadth of proposed transformational climate justice initiatives in higher education.

Indexed as

Climate justiceClimate policyClimate transformationEnergy democracyGreen New DealHigher Education

Identifiers

PMID36785806
PMCPMC9909666
OpenAlexW4319661302

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Registered trials

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