Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Book Chapter Book Chapter Faculty Publications- Book Chapter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Climate Risks in an Unequal Society: The Question of Climate Justice in India Subject The topic of the resource Climate justice; Climate risks; India's climate policy; Kerala and Odisha; Social inequities Description An account of the resource Over the past few decades, India has witnessed the brunt of climate change impacts in multiple dimensions. Notably, recent years' experiences prove that there has been a substantial increase in the intensity, frequency, and duration of climate-related risks and extreme events, resulting in an acceleration of the nexus between climate change and inequities. Despite the growing advancements of socioeconomic research on current and future climate change risks in India, the explorations through the lens of legal perspectives are still limited and have not met the demands. This chapter argues for rethinking legal perspectives of climate justice in India by drawing insights from two recent climate extreme events. To begin with, this chapter briefly reviews the historical background of the global actions to combat climate inequities and injustices and identifies the ways in which climate injustices perpetuate. For this, it adopts three main principles of climate justice, consisting of equity, a rights-based approach, and sustainability. Following this, it discusses India's climate policy and the existing institutional framework and actions to respond to climate change at the national and state levels. Then, by focusing on the climate change impacts on India, it introduces two recent climate-related risk events in India, and it discusses the unequal structuration of climate risks and the resulting more vulnerable and precarious situation of the marginal sections of the society that already faces multiple social injustices of Indian society. At the end of the cases, it briefly offers a critique of the climate change action plans of the respective states. This chapter concludes by outlining a few strategies to create a more sustainable and equitable approach toward climate governance and justice by strengthening the legal and institutional dispensations of the climate regime in India. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Madhanagopal D.; Jacob V.A. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Environment, Climate, and Social Justice: Perspectives and Practices from the Global South, pp. 161-188. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Springer Nature Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1987-9_9" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1987-9_9</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85162662857&amp;doi=10.1007%2F978-981-19-1987-9_9&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=22a89b68617193680fda99bace6a938e" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85162662857&amp;doi=10.1007%2f978-981-19-1987-9_9&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=22a89b68617193680fda99bace6a938e</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Restricted Access Relation A related resource ISBN: 978-981191986-2; 978-981191987-9 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Book chapter Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Madhanagopal D., School of Sustainability, XIM University, Odisha, India; Jacob V.A., School of Law, Christ University, Karnataka, Bangalore, India