{"title":"Landscapes of (in)justice: Reflecting on voices, spaces and alliances for just transitions","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103701","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Transitioning to a low carbon global economy will inevitably create winners and losers. Such rapid and far-reaching changes in the adoption of low-carbon technologies, lifestyle changes and labour relations require meaningful public engagement for policy to be both effective and equitable. But despite a large body of work on just transitions, there has been less attention paid to questions of citizen engagement in just transitions. In particular, the process of how and by whom social needs, priorities and demands are articulated and acted upon. While some research has mapped public participation on climate change, and there is a larger body of work on questions of social acceptance, there is a gap in our understanding of how citizen engagement with just transitions can be deepened and enhanced by drawing on experiences to date from other related and parallel processes. On one level, this neglect is unsurprising given the limited nature of processes explicitly designed to promote just transitions, such as the Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JET-Ps) or experiences of national level dialogues and commissions, despite recent interest in the related use of climate assemblies to enable citizen engagement. But, we argue, there are significant lessons to be drawn for citizen engagement with just transitions from a long and rich experience of previous attempts to amplify voices, create spaces for citizen engagement, and build alliances to address justice issues across a range of struggles over resource pathways.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.9000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629624002925/pdfft?md5=3a19250d72437407b189e790aa022817&pid=1-s2.0-S2214629624002925-main.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Energy Research & Social Science","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629624002925","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Transitioning to a low carbon global economy will inevitably create winners and losers. Such rapid and far-reaching changes in the adoption of low-carbon technologies, lifestyle changes and labour relations require meaningful public engagement for policy to be both effective and equitable. But despite a large body of work on just transitions, there has been less attention paid to questions of citizen engagement in just transitions. In particular, the process of how and by whom social needs, priorities and demands are articulated and acted upon. While some research has mapped public participation on climate change, and there is a larger body of work on questions of social acceptance, there is a gap in our understanding of how citizen engagement with just transitions can be deepened and enhanced by drawing on experiences to date from other related and parallel processes. On one level, this neglect is unsurprising given the limited nature of processes explicitly designed to promote just transitions, such as the Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JET-Ps) or experiences of national level dialogues and commissions, despite recent interest in the related use of climate assemblies to enable citizen engagement. But, we argue, there are significant lessons to be drawn for citizen engagement with just transitions from a long and rich experience of previous attempts to amplify voices, create spaces for citizen engagement, and build alliances to address justice issues across a range of struggles over resource pathways.
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Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) is a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles examining the relationship between energy systems and society. ERSS covers a range of topics revolving around the intersection of energy technologies, fuels, and resources on one side and social processes and influences - including communities of energy users, people affected by energy production, social institutions, customs, traditions, behaviors, and policies - on the other. Put another way, ERSS investigates the social system surrounding energy technology and hardware. ERSS is relevant for energy practitioners, researchers interested in the social aspects of energy production or use, and policymakers.
Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) provides an interdisciplinary forum to discuss how social and technical issues related to energy production and consumption interact. Energy production, distribution, and consumption all have both technical and human components, and the latter involves the human causes and consequences of energy-related activities and processes as well as social structures that shape how people interact with energy systems. Energy analysis, therefore, needs to look beyond the dimensions of technology and economics to include these social and human elements.