ABSTRACT

This chapter reviews key frameworks in understanding different dimensions of climate justice, namely, distributive, participatory, and transformative justice, and argues for more expansive understandings particularly of participatory and transformative justice. I invite serious consideration of how reclaiming the commons in various contexts and scales is important for climate justice. Furthermore, I argue that taking Indigenous knowledge seriously is an important element of reclaiming the commons. To illustrate these arguments, this chapter draws on examples from empirical research in Nepal.