Inclusive Climate Governance and Temporal Justice: Integrating Disabled Youth into Sustainable Policy Frameworks

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🔬研究者:Introduces 'crip time' and temporal justice to climate governance scholarship, opening a new interdisciplinary research avenue.

🏢実務担当者:Limited direct applicability; may inform participatory process design in sustainability initiatives.

🏛政策担当者:Highlights the need to adapt timelines and formats in climate policy to include disabled youth and other marginalized groups.

Contemporary climate governance is driven by urgency—structured around rapid emissions targets, fixed policy deadlines, and accelerated implementation cycles. While this temporal architecture reflects the severity of the climate crisis, it often unintentionally marginalizes groups whose lived experiences do not align with rigid, linear temporal frameworks, particularly disabled youth. This paper argues that existing sustainability policies and mainstream youth-led climate initiatives remain insufficiently inclusive, not only in terms of physical accessibility and spatial accommodation but also in their underlying normative assumptions about time, productivity, pace, and meaningful participation. Drawing on insights from critical disability studies, particularly the concept of temporal justice and the theoretical framework of "crip time," this research introduces an analytical lens for understanding how dominant models of climate action privilege ableist, fast-paced, and linear engagement while systematically excluding those who navigate non-linear, variable, or extended temporalities. The concept of crip time, which recognizes that disabled individuals often experience time differently due to bodily, cognitive, or environmental constraints, serves as a foundation for critiquing the temporal ableism embedded in climate governance structures. Using a qualitative, interdisciplinary methodology, the paper synthesizes critical policy analysis with emerging scholarship on inclusive governance and youth participation to propose a reimagined model of Inclusive Climate Governance. This model emphasizes three core principles: flexibility in participation formats and timelines, adaptive policy mechanisms that accommodate diverse temporal needs, and the meaningful integration of disabled youth as active agents of change rather than passive beneficiaries or afterthoughts. By reframing inclusion through the lens of temporal justice, this research contributes to a more equitable, effective, and ethically grounded vision of sustainability—one that recognizes diverse temporal experiences as integral to, rather than incompatible with, urgent climate action.

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