Just transition : integrating climate, energy and environmental justice

Just transition is a new framework of analysis that brings together climate, energy and environmental justice scholarships. It was originally coined as a term that was designed to link the promotion of clean technology with the assurance of green jobs. The Paris climate change agreement marks a global acceptance that a more rapid transition is needed to avert disastrous consequences. In response, climate, energy and environmental justice scholarships must unite in assessing where injustices will emerge and how they should be tackled. Just transition offers a new space for developing an interdisciplinary transition sensitive approach to exploring and promoting (1) distributional, (2) procedural and (3) restorative justice, termed here as a new triumvirate of tenets.

Citation

McCauley , D & Heffron , R 2018 , ' Just transition : integrating climate, energy and environmental justice ' , Energy Policy , vol. 119 , pp. 1-7 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.04.014

Publication

Energy Policy

Status

Peer reviewed

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.04.014

ISSN

0301-4215

Type

Journal article

Rights

Crown Copyright © 2018 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.04.014

Description

In terms of funders, we thank the ESRC (ES/I001425/1) and EPSRC (EP/I035390/1) and UKERC (http://www.ukerc.ac.uk/news/whole-systems-networking-fund-project-announcement.html) for supporting the development of our work in this area.

Collections

University of St Andrews Research

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/10023/17583