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Beyond dark money: Information subsidies and complex networks of opposition to offshore wind on the U.S. East Coast 黑钱之外：美国东海岸反对海上风电的信息补贴和复杂网络

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Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2024-11-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103829

Isaac Slevin, William Kattrup, Charlotte Marcil, J. Timmons Roberts

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Exploring the dynamics of socio-technical transitions: Advancing grid-connected wind and solar energy adoption in Nigeria 探索社会技术转型的动力：推动尼日利亚风能和太阳能并网应用

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2024-11-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103850

Racheal Adedokun , Peter A. Strachan , Anita Singh , Fredrik von Malmborg

{"title":"Exploring the dynamics of socio-technical transitions: Advancing grid-connected wind and solar energy adoption in Nigeria","authors":"Racheal Adedokun , Peter A. Strachan , Anita Singh , Fredrik von Malmborg","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103850","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103850","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Globally, countries are transitioning their national electricity grid system to meet the obligations of the Paris Agreement. National grid-connected renewable electricity provides an opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Specifically, in a developing country like Nigeria, renewable energies such as solar and wind power can play a critical role not only in transitioning away from fossil-fuel based electricity systems but also to address prevalent energy security challenges, electricity supply deficit and gaps in energy access. Policies, plans, and strategies to ensure grid-connected renewable energy have been put in place, but these measures have proved ineffective. Likewise, there are limited studies that investigate these transition problems, including drivers and enablers from a developing country perspective. This research fills that gap in knowledge by investigating these transition dynamics through a qualitative approach applying the multi-level perspective framework. Thirty-one (31) key energy and non-energy actors were interviewed, and the transcripts thematically analysed. Findings indicate that there is prospect for Nigeria to transform its electricity system. However, there are major deterrents including institutional, infrastructural, incumbent electricity system instability and economic barriers. The paper highlights that there is a level of regime stability/instability that will enable renewable energy development. In addition, practical and policy insights are offered to overcome identified challenges towards accelerating electricity system transformation. Future studies should also explore the degree of instability, stability and change in developing country settings necessary for energy transition to occur. Finally, this paper advances debates in energy transition and socio-technical system studies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103850"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142697229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Where intersectional feminism doesn't fit: Energy transition and Ubuntu feminism? 交叉性女权主义不适合的地方：能源转型和乌班图女权主义？

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2024-11-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103853

Ellen Fungisai Chipango

{"title":"Where intersectional feminism doesn't fit: Energy transition and Ubuntu feminism?","authors":"Ellen Fungisai Chipango","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103853","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103853","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Intersectional feminism has criticised neoliberal tendencies of energy access instructively through the intersectionality lens. The intersectional influence has resulted in the enactment of increased female and gender-sensitive energy policies under the banner of gendering energy poverty. That said, feminism has tended to draw much from Western philosophy–such that we remain dangerously focused on autonomous individuals. Drawing on Ubuntu feminism, I argue that our possibilities for just energy use lie in communality, particularly how it conceives the obligated ‘social bond’ rather than individualism and subordination. Through a conceptual paper exploring Ubuntu feminism, I challenge scholars of energy transition to perceive gendered ‘energy access’ through a deep appreciation of human interdependence, intersubjectivity, and relationality. More specifically, I propose nine grounds for Ubuntu feminism in energy analysis and practice, arguing that this is a promising relational ethic that merits application to energy matters. Any imperative to act morally is easier to understand through the prism of human interaction or put differently, within the context of relationships, than when viewed in the isolation of individual conduct. This analysis is timely because there is an urgent need for a more comprehensive moral energy policy to move from one that only seeks to ‘include’ women in technology and energy transition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103853"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142697492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Chilling and sweltering at home: Surveying energy poverty and thermal vulnerability among Portuguese higher education students 家中寒冷和闷热：调查葡萄牙高校学生的能源贫困和热脆弱性

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2024-11-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103842

Carolina Cruz Castro, João Pedro Gouveia

{"title":"Chilling and sweltering at home: Surveying energy poverty and thermal vulnerability among Portuguese higher education students","authors":"Carolina Cruz Castro, João Pedro Gouveia","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103842","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103842","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Portugal faces substantial energy poverty challenges compared to its EU counterparts, mainly stemming from aged buildings with poor thermal performance. This situation is especially critical for higher education students, who exhibit increased vulnerability to energy poverty due to unstable housing conditions within the private rental sector. Among these students, displaced individuals are notably vulnerable and heavily reliant on the private rental sector. Thus, this study delves into the thermal comfort and potential energy poverty vulnerability of higher education students, both displaced and local, across four Portuguese regions: North region, Centre region, Lisbon Metropolitan Area (AML), and Alentejo. Surveying 848 students via a 32-question online survey reveals that discomfort prevails in both summer and winter for most populations. Displaced students experienced greater discomfort than local students, potentially attributable to their reliance on the private rental sector, which often entails precarious housing. Although regional disparities in thermal comfort were not significant, the causes of discomfort varied significantly between regions. Notably, displaced students from Alentejo emerged as the most potentially vulnerable population to energy poverty within the study cohort. This study underscores the imperative for policymakers, higher education institutions, and researchers to redirect their focus towards enhancing student housing, particularly within the private rental sector and older buildings, while addressing the energy poverty vulnerability of displaced students.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103842"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142697205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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“Rural exploitation” in solar energy development? A field survey experiment in South Korea on solar energy support in rural areas 太阳能发展中的 "农村开发"？韩国农村地区太阳能支持实地调查实验

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2024-11-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103837

Inhwan Ko

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Public perceptions of heat decarbonisation in Great Britain: Awareness, values and the social circle effect 英国公众对供热脱碳的看法：意识、价值观和社交圈效应

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2024-11-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103844

William Smith , Christina Demski , Nicholas Pidgeon

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Stumbling blocks for solar social enterprises: Unveiling the barriers facing enterprises serving the base of the pyramid solar market in Tanzania 太阳能社会企业的绊脚石：揭示坦桑尼亚金字塔底层太阳能市场企业面临的障碍

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2024-11-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103847

Gabriel C. Malima , Hezron Makundi , Gussai H. Sheikheldin

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Partisan winds: Group-level polarization and issue-framing propel attitudes about local wind farms 党派之风：群体层面的两极分化和问题框架推动了人们对当地风力发电场的态度

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Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2024-11-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103848

Aitor Marcos , Patrick Hartmann , Douglas L. Bessette , Joseph Árvai

{"title":"Partisan winds: Group-level polarization and issue-framing propel attitudes about local wind farms","authors":"Aitor Marcos , Patrick Hartmann , Douglas L. Bessette , Joseph Árvai","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103848","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103848","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Political polarization is an obstacle to public support and effective communication for renewable energy projects. Depolarizing messages can be helpful, but it is difficult to determine where to concentrate efforts until social scientists first disentangle the effects of unconscious issue-based and conscious group norm-based polarization processes. This study investigates the extent to which attitudes towards wind energy development are polarized in the United States, focusing on attitudes about local wind farms. We tested different frames in a survey with 1300 U.S. participants, combining implicit and explicit attitude measures to measure unconscious and conscious attitudes towards nearby wind farms, respectively. Our findings suggest that explicit attitudes towards wind farms are more polarized than implicit attitudes, emphasizing the role of conscious processes in shaping attitudes. Furthermore, perceptions of within-party support significantly influence explicit attitudes, indicating the importance of group norm-based polarization in this context. While our framing interventions aimed at addressing issue-based polarization yielded mixed results, the moderating effect of perceived within-party support underscores the potential efficacy of interventions targeting group-level processes. Regarding policy implications, our findings highlight the importance of considering both issue-based and group norm-based polarization when developing and implementing communication strategies for garnering local support for nearby renewable energy developments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103848"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142697494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Inequality is driving the climate crisis: A longitudinal analysis of province-level carbon emissions in Canada, 1997–2020 不平等导致气候危机：1997-2020 年加拿大各省碳排放纵向分析

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Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2024-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103845

Andrew Jorgenson , Taekyeong Goh , Ryan Thombs , Yasmin Koop-Monteiro , Mark Shakespear , Grace Gletsu , Nicolas Viens

{"title":"Inequality is driving the climate crisis: A longitudinal analysis of province-level carbon emissions in Canada, 1997–2020","authors":"Andrew Jorgenson , Taekyeong Goh , Ryan Thombs , Yasmin Koop-Monteiro , Mark Shakespear , Grace Gletsu , Nicolas Viens","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103845","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103845","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The authors conduct a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between carbon emissions and income inequality for the Canadian provinces for the 1997 to 2020 period. The results indicate that the short-run and long-run effects of the income share of the top 10 % and the top 5 % on province-level emissions are positive, robust to various model specifications, net of multiple demographic and economic factors, not sensitive to exogenous shocks or outlier cases, symmetrical, statistically equivalent for emissions from different sectors, and their short-term effects do not vary in magnitude through time. The findings also consistently show that the estimated effect of the Gini coefficient on province-level emissions is not statistically significant. Overall, the results underscore the importance in modeling the effects of income inequality measures that quantify different characteristics of income distributions, and they are very consistent with analytical approaches regarding power concentration, overconsumption, and status competition that suggest that a higher concentration of income leads to growth in anthropogenic carbon emissions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103845"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142697228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Intersectionality in good faith: Beyond normative claims and towards practical integration in energy justice research 真诚的交叉性：超越规范性主张，实现能源公正研究的实际整合

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Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2024-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103823

Mathilde Rainard , Milena Büchs , Kirsten Jenkins , Lucie Middlemiss

{"title":"Intersectionality in good faith: Beyond normative claims and towards practical integration in energy justice research","authors":"Mathilde Rainard , Milena Büchs , Kirsten Jenkins , Lucie Middlemiss","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103823","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103823","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The concept of intersectionality is increasingly referenced in energy justice research, requiring critical reflection on the value of intersectionality theory for the energy justice framework and research agenda. Conceptually, its incorporation seems intuitive – intersectionality theory, it is argued, can better integrate, or even transcend, often westernised justice conceptualisations, including through attention to feminist, anti-racist, Indigenous, and postcolonial justice theories. Methodologically, however, integrating intersectionality into practice is less intuitive and the energy justice literature is currently lacking tangible recommendations. Indeed, the use of intersectionality is methodologically complex, requiring understanding of and attention to its core guiding principles, which must be applied appropriately in research from design to analysis and outputs in order to support its ambitious and politicised aims. This is especially true in the context of energy justice, where outputs are typically intended to inform future decision-making. In this perspective, we present the key literature to integrate intersectionality theory into energy justice research, then we highlight that there have been, so far, two different ways to integrate intersectionality: implicitly and explicitly. We then defend and support the explicit integration of intersectionality theory in energy justice work by providing recommendations to facilitate integration in research. Finally, we call for a politicised, radical research agenda informed by intersectionality theory in future academic work linked to the energy transition injustices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103823"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142697491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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