2.2 What is Procedural Environmental Justice  and how can it inform Climate Resilience Politics

Procedural justice is interested in the context and the processes that brings about distributional justice disparities. In general, research interested in procedural justice moves beyond traditional understandings of where and who is exposed to flooding to broader and layered factors of why and how certain segments of society are more exposed or show different abilities to recover from disasters (O’Hare and White, 2018). In order to do so, studies of procedural justice in the EJ literature largely focus on qualitative methods, drawing from ethnography and anthropology in order to capture the fairness of the institutional processes through which decisions are made. Studies looked at how residents and activists are organized and what their counter-claims are and how they mobilize against industrial contamination (Maantay, 2002; Checker, 2007; Sze et al., 2009) and more recently, public health risks exacerbated by climate change in Special Maritime and Industrial Areas (Bautista, Osorio and Dwyer, 2015) or groups capabilities to forge alliances with powerful actors in the climate resilience arena (Allen, 2007; Holland, 2017).