Chatterton, P. orcid.org/0000-0001-9281-2230 and Darby, S. (2025) The Climate Emergency and Place-Based Action: The Case of Climate Action Leeds, UK. Sustainability, 17 (14). 6274. ISSN: 2071-1050
Abstract
This paper is based on our engagement in a cross-sector network in Leeds, UK, taking local climate action. It draws on in-depth engagements with participants in this network, to explore how they negotiate being in, while at the same time wanting to push beyond, a climate emergency. We found three emergent trends: a reworked interpretation of the climate emergency through longer-term, holistic, historically grounded, and politicised definitions; novel forms of disruptive, collaborative place leadership that could help respond to this longer emergency; and a value-based focus on a reparative ethics of self-care, people-care, and Earth-care that foregrounds climate justice and accountability to frontline communities. We end by recommending that place-based actors can enhance the effectiveness of their collective action by broadening emergency definitions, developing politics and strategy, and supporting values-based climate justice and equity.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 by the authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | climate emergency; climate justice; climate action; sustainable cities |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2025 09:38 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jul 2025 09:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/su17146274 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:229586 |