This volume addresses cutting-edge debates in climate justice through empirical research and local case studies examining how communities experience, negotiate, and respond to climate-related inequities. Advancing a multiscalar and geographical perspective, the book links global responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions and the just transition from fossil fuels with local and urban practices of adaptation, governance, and mobilization. It offers a comprehensive framework encompassing Actions for Just Climate Empowerment, just transitions enacted in real places, and the plurality of climate justice pathways, highlighting the urgent need for structural transformation, rights, collective power, and ecological reconciliation.

Massimo De Marchi, PhD in Geography, Professor of Geography at University of Padova (Italy), Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering. Academic coordinator of Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Just Fossil Fuel Transition; coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus International Joint Master Programme on Climate Change and Diversity, Sustainable Territorial Development (CCD-STeDe) (EQF7). His research focuses on climate justice, transitions from fossil fuels, environmental conflict management adopting a qualitative GIScience approach.

Francesca Peroni, PhD in Geography, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Arizona State University (USA) and the University of Padova (Italy). Member of the Scientific Committee of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Just Fossil Fuel Transition. Her research focuses on urban climate justice, inclusive adaptation to extreme heat, and urban greening, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches.