Expanding the scope of just transitions: Towards localized solutions and community-level dynamics

Bazilian, Morgan; Carley, Sanya; Konisky, David M.; Zerriffi, Hisham; Pai, Sandeep; Handler, Brad

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2021.102245

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“…Does it matter if goals are met via existing institutions and governance networks, or should new ones be developed? There is a large body of literature that explores sustainability, governance, and institutional design [53][54][55]. Who is recognized and involved, and what are just outcomes (distributional, procedural, and recognitional elements of justice) [13,14]?…”

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Just Transitions for Oil and Gas Regions and the Role of Regional Development Policies

Krawchenko

Gordon

2022

Energies

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The oil and gas industry is a major economic driver in many regions and countries, providing workers with well-paid jobs and spurring investments and economic growth. The need to transition these industries in order to meet climate commitments presents a major challenge. How can the costs and risks to workers and communities of the transition be mitigated? How can stakeholders be included in decisions that impact them? How do transitions impact the broader economy of these regions and what are they transitioning to? Importantly, how can regional development policies support this process? This comparative policy review explores just transition management in three oil and gas dependent regions that have signified the need to transition away from the oil and gas sector, i.e., Taranaki (New Zealand), the northeast of Scotland, and the Jutland peninsula in southwest Denmark, drawing out key lessons and leading practices. These cases are positioned within an empirically grounded, conceptual framework of national and regional just transition policies.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Just Transitions for Oil and Gas Regions and the Role of Regional Development Policies

Krawchenko

Gordon

2022

Energies

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“…Emerging literature on the political dimensions of devaluation has also not linked up with the study of just transitions [JTs], another key element of energy transitions. Since the phrase emerged from the US labor movement in the 1980s (Mazzochi, 1993), just transition scholarship and activism has incorporated broader conceptions of environmental, energy, and climate justice, encompassing a wide range of stakeholder interests over diverse timeframes (Bazilian et al, 2021; Jasanoff, 2018; McCauley and Heffron, 2018; Newell and Mulvaney, 2013). In this literature, we can broadly distinguish empirical approaches to JTs from normative or prescriptive approaches.…”

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Managing decline: Devaluation and just transition at Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant

Nelson

Ramana

2023

Environ Plan A

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This paper examines the shifting fortunes of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in California to better understand how asset owners are dealing with an increasingly-significant problem in changing energy landscapes: the devaluation of large fixed capital assets. In 2016, Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced a Joint Proposal to retire the Diablo Canyon plant by 2025, the result of a negotiated compromise with labor unions, environmental and community groups. Heralded by many commentators as a model for “just transitions” in the energy sector, this agreement has lately been called into question as new subsidies and political coalitions have emerged to support for the plant's continued operation. This paper investigates the political and economic conditions for the Joint Proposal as an example of “negotiated devaluation,” aiming to understand why and how this strategy took shape, and what lessons it offers for other transition processes. Linking literatures on just transitions and devaluation in the energy sector, we show how negotiated devaluation may offer an emerging strategy for owners of energy assets to manage decline in a changing energy landscape. The case also demonstrates the political contingency of these coalitions and the transitions they subtend, and the limited dimensions of justice that might be affirmed in them.

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“…The decline of the coal industry has generated serious economic and social issues in specific areas of some countries where coal production has been the main economic activity. For example, coal production in the United States dropped between 33 and 37% from 2007 to 2017 and the number of producing coal mines have been reduced more than 60% from 2008 to 2020, affecting the communities that have been historically reliant on this industry [ 9 , 10 ].…”

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“…There are attractive alternatives that can be tested and developed, such as advanced materials and chemicals derived from coal [ 6 ]. A modern approach of the coal industry must include industrial and research fields related to the production of rare earth elements and carbon dioxide storage [ [3] , [4] , [5] , [6] , [7] , [8] , [9] , [10] , [11] , [12] , [13] , [14] ].…”

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A brief review on coal reserves, production and possible non-power uses: The case of Mexico

Dávila-Pulido

González-Ibarra

Garza-García

2023

Heliyon

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Expanding the scope of just transitions: Towards localized solutions and community-level dynamics

Cited by 27 publications

References 16 publications

Just Transitions for Oil and Gas Regions and the Role of Regional Development Policies

Just Transitions for Oil and Gas Regions and the Role of Regional Development Policies

Managing decline: Devaluation and just transition at Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant

A brief review on coal reserves, production and possible non-power uses: The case of Mexico

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