Climate Justice in the City Power, Inequality, and the Mobilization for Change

Gustavo García-López is an Integrated Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Prakash Kashwan is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Climate Justice Network. He is author of Democracy in the Woods: Environmental Conservation and Social Justice in India, Tanzania, and Mexico and (with Aseem Hasnain) of Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action. Lauren M. MacLean is the Thomas P. O'Neill Chair of Public Life and Professor and Department Chair of Political Science at Northeastern University. She is author of Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa: Risk and Reciprocity in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire and of Negotiating Power and Inequality in Ghana: Electricity and Citizenship as Reciprocity (IUP, 2026).