Just transition: A conceptual review

X Wang, K Lo - Energy Research & Social Science, 2021 - Elsevier
The growing attention paid to the idea of a just transition away from the incumbent fossil fuel
energy paradigm has led scholars to devise diverse definitions, understandings, and …

Who are the victims of low-carbon transitions? Towards a political ecology of climate change mitigation

BK Sovacool - Energy Research & Social Science, 2021 - Elsevier
This study critically examines 20 years of geography and political ecology literature on the
energy justice implications of climate change mitigation. Grounded in an expert guided …

Unveiling hidden energy poverty using the energy equity gap

S Cong, D Nock, YL Qiu, B Xing - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Income-based energy poverty metrics ignore people's behavior patterns, particularly
reducing energy consumption to limit financial stress. We investigate energy-limiting …

The justice and equity implications of the clean energy transition

S Carley, DM Konisky - Nature Energy, 2020 - nature.com
The transition to lower-carbon sources of energy will inevitably produce and, in many cases,
perpetuate pre-existing sets of winners and losers. The winners are those that will benefit …

Renewable energy for whom? A global systematic review of the environmental justice implications of renewable energy technologies

AM Levenda, I Behrsin, F Disano - Energy Research & Social Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Renewable energy transitions are essential for decarbonizing the world economy and
mitigating global climate change. Yet many energy technologies classified as renewable …

[HTML][HTML] Pluralizing energy justice: Incorporating feminist, anti-racist, Indigenous, and postcolonial perspectives

BK Sovacool, SE Bell, C Daggett, C Labuski… - Energy Research & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Justice represents not only a moral obligation but can enhance the legitimacy and
acceptance of a rapid push toward global decarbonization. Innovations in technology, even …

[HTML][HTML] High-resolution large-scale onshore wind energy assessments: A review of potential definitions, methodologies and future research needs

R McKenna, S Pfenninger, H Heinrichs, J Schmidt… - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The rapid uptake of renewable energy technologies in recent decades has increased the
demand of energy researchers, policymakers and energy planners for reliable data on the …

Do renewable energy communities deliver energy justice? Exploring insights from 71 European cases

F Hanke, R Guyet, M Feenstra - Energy Research & Social Science, 2021 - Elsevier
A growing energy justice literature underlines that complex energy injustices in energy
transition disproportionally affect vulnerable and energy-poor households. Literature and …

[HTML][HTML] Renewable energy communities under the 2019 European Clean Energy Package–Governance model for the energy clusters of the future?

J Lowitzsch, CE Hoicka, FJ van Tulder - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2020 - Elsevier
The recast of the European Union Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) entered into force in
December 2018, followed by the Internal Electricity Market Directive (IEMD) and Regulation …

Movements shaping climate futures: A systematic mapping of protests against fossil fuel and low-carbon energy projects

L Temper, S Avila, D Del Bene, J Gobby… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In this article we undertake a systematic mapping of 649 cases of resistance movements to
both fossil fuel (FF) and low carbon energy (LCE) projects, providing the most …