Tackling knowledge and power: an environmental justice perspective on climate change adaptation in Kiribati

Reducing vulnerabilities is at the core of climate change adaptation interventions. This goal usually approached from perspective increasingly universal methodologies, tools and services that are grounded in Western scientific thought knowledge. Questions (in-)justices new or reproduced play a marginal role In this paper, we argue failure to acknowledge, let alone address, intricate linkages between knowledge power risks creating fundamental injustices as part well-intended processes their outcomes. Using Kiribati Adaptation Project (KAP) case study, examine how hegemonies lead unsatisfactory outcomes when viewed justice perspective. Environmental lenses provide useful framework for applying distributional, procedural epistemic notions injustice tackle interrogate knowledge-power relations, which identify profound