Journal article
Community Service Organizations and Actions for Climate Justice: An Exploration of the Western Australian Context
Human service organizations, management, leadership & governance, Vol.49(5), pp.628-649
2025
Abstract
This study utilized Feminist Participatory Action Research in collaboration with community service organizations (CSOs) in Western Australia to assess knowledges, capacities and capabilities regarding climate justice. Through surveys, interviews, and workshops, CSO workers explored organizational responses to climate change and social justice. Participants self-reported a low-to-medium understanding of climate justice and a desire for capacity building, especially in decolonial practice. Half of participating organizations had policies regarding climate change and social justice and engaged in climate advocacy, but identified a lack of sectorial and organizational leadership. Participants recommended opportunities for CSOs to operationalize climate justice and disaster resilience via climate justice mainstreaming, partnerships and collective activism. CSOs prioritized co-producing a Climate Justice and Resilience Toolkit as a social innovation to embed climate justice and disaster resilience across CSO operations. This demonstrates the significance of collaboration in addressing the social injustices of climate change and fostering innovative outcomes for CSOs.
PRACTICE POINTS
• Community service organizations (CSOs) in Western Australia (WA) require enhanced knowledges, capacities and capabilities in climate justice and disaster resilience.
• Barriers to CSO engagement with climate justice include lack of time, resources, funding, heavy workloads and competing demands, and low organizational prioritization of climate justice.
• WA CSOs request tools and resources for innovative approaches to infuse climate justice, disaster resilience, and decolonization across all areas of programming and operations.
Details
- Title
- Community Service Organizations and Actions for Climate Justice: An Exploration of the Western Australian Context
- Authors/Creators
- Naomi Joy Godden - Edith Cowan UniversityBronte Alston - Edith Cowan UniversityKylie Wrigley - Edith Cowan UniversityShajimon Peter - Edith Cowan UniversityJulie Nyanjom - Edith Cowan UniversityGraham Hansen - Union UniversityRaphaela Raaber - Edith Cowan UniversityJanine Joyce - Edith Cowan UniversityElizabeth Jackson-Barrett - Edith Cowan UniversityMehran Nejati - Edith Cowan UniversityDoreen Wijekoon - Tharawal AboriginalKatharine Marsh - Edith Cowan UniversityCaroline Porteous - Takeda (Australia)Susan Bailey - Edith Cowan University
- Publication Details
- Human service organizations, management, leadership & governance, Vol.49(5), pp.628-649
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Number of pages
- 22
- Grant note
- Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award Commonwealth Government of Australia Lotterywest
- Identifiers
- 991005877698307891
- Copyright
- © 2025 The Author(s).
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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