Graduation Year

2026

Document Type

Campus Only Senior Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Department

Environmental Analysis

Reader 1

Professor Jo Ann Wang

Reader 2

Professor Thomas Kim

Rights Information

© Paige A Hazen

Abstract

Given the rate and urgency of climate change, can successful environmental justice campaigns be “scaled” or replicated? And if so, how? Drawing on my analysis of various redistributive climate campaigns and interviews with their community organizers, I argue that there is a highly necessary and meaningful role for campaign replication and translocalism in the Just Transition. Examining the case studies of the Right to the City Alliance, Polluters Pay, the Portland Clean Energy Fund, and Denver's Climate Protection Fund reveal that campaigns grounded in deep community origins, strong coalition capacity, and adaptive conditions best allow for translation across place. However, most crucially, I posit that the most important factor is not the strategies themselves, but the relational networks that undergird their replication.

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