A failed green future: Navajo Green Jobs and energy “transition” in the Navajo Nation

Incremental, transitional and transformational adaptation to climate change in resource extraction regions

“…Therefore, apart from improving understanding of individual adaptation pathways, there is a necessity for conceptual lenses that are polycentric, dynamic and multi-scalar. Assessments of vulnerability, adaptive capacity and adaptation of the mining industry (Ford et al, 2010(Ford et al, , 2011Hodgkinson et al, 2014;Loechel et al, 2013;Pearce et al, 2011;Pizarro et al, 2017) Climate change in the sustainable mining agenda, climate-compatible development and corporate social responsibility (Bambrick, 2018;Dyer et al, 2013;Hodgkinson & Smith, 2018;Irarrázabal, 2006;Jegede, 2016;Leventon et al, 2015) Climate change responses are driven by neoliberal and colonial ideas and neglect the heterogeneity of knowledge and institutions (Cameron, 2012;Curley, 2018;Hirons et al, 2014;Nuttall, 2012) In situ adaptation planning and adaptive regulations (Aleke & Nhamo, 2016;Carkovic et al, 2016;Sharma & Franks, 2013) Alternative institutional design, promoting cross-scale and polycentric institutions, and integration of Indigenous and local knowledge systems in decision-making (Ali et al, 2017;Birch, 2016;Eisenstadt & West, 2016;Petheram et al, 2010) Governance and political challenges (Bebbington et al, 2015) Economic and political rationale for adaptation (Damigos, 2012;Kolk & Levy, 2001;Martus, 2019;Prowse et al, 2009) Legitimacy of mining projects (particularly coal and oil) within the existing climate change governance regimes and just transitions (Bos & Gupta, 2016;Evans, 2007;Odell et al, 2018;Patterson et al, 2018;…”

The evolving borderland of energy geographies

“…As evidence of the cross-cutting scope of energy geographies, Behrsin's (2019) work integrates both STS and Marxist political economy in order to critique the scientific knowledge enabling renewable energy transitions.While this scholarship helps to establish a foundation for intersections between energy geographies and STS, additional avenues can be explored. For example, engaging Lave's (2015) research on the emergence of new environmental knowledge regimes and Goldstein's (2015) work on "divergent expertise" could help to better elucidate the actors/knowledge claims contributing to (or absent from) energy policy debates and decision making processes.Based on our review, a notable underrepresentation within energy geographies is indigenous knowledge.WhileCurley's (2018aCurley's ( , 2018b work is helping to give voice to members of the Navajo Nation that are currently grappling with whether and how to transition away from a coal-based energy economy, additional research is needed in other indigenous landscapes enmeshed in energy development/transitions. The MHA Nation on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota is a notable research gap, particularly as the reservation lies within the Bakken shale basin.…”

Changing geographies of the state: themes, challenges and futures

“…This is particularly problematic in certain authoritarian states and institutions, as well as sites targeted by extractive industries (e.g. Belcher et al 2020;Curley 2018;Koch 2018a;Marston 2019;McCreary and Milligan 2014;Zhou 2015). In other contexts, however, some political leaders and citizens have drawn upon the ideals of social justice to advocate for 'just transitions', i.e.…”