Feasibility of energy justice: Exploring national and local efforts for energy development in Nepal

Işlar, Mine; Brogaard, Sara; Lemberg-Pedersen, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2017.03.004

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“…The core implication of energy justice [32][33][34][35] lie in the recognition justice of energy development [9,10], the procedural justice of energy democracy [7,8], and the distributive justice of energy risk [36][37][38], which takes further steps to structuralize energy justice, using an analysis of other countries' domestic energy development situations, as well as discussing their suitability. Fan [39] discussed the overall international perspective on energy justice, noting that, internationally, there is an emphasis on discussions of fuel poverty, and that this notion of fuel poverty relates to issues of distributive justice and environmental justice.…”

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National Energy Transition Framework toward SDG7 with Legal Reforms and Policy Bundles: The Case of Taiwan and Its Comparison with Japan

2020

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The main problem explored in this study is how Taiwan and other countries meet the challenges of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals regarding energy transition by using legal instruments or policy bundles. This study adopts textual analysis and legal policy analysis as its main form of research methodology, and the theory of energy justice, as well as principles of energy management, to correlate with the Sustainable Development Goals. Furthermore, this study aims to construct an analysis structure for national energy transition and to analyze the current situation within Taiwan’s electricity sector reforms, while providing evidence of the national experience of electrical industry reforms as an international reference. This study also compares the differences between the seventh Sustainable Development Goal relationship and national energy transitions in Taiwan and Japan, based on the similar initiative of the revised Electricity Act with the policy bundle. This study specifically finds that, firstly, the theory for energy justice is connected with the principles for energy management, owing to the same concepts of “Fair Competition”, via the recognition of “Energy Development and Poverty”, which correlates with “Environment Protection”. Therefore, the concept of energy transition proposed in this study integrates national energy development policy goals and combines them with environmental sustainability, the green economy, and social equity. Secondly, the national energy transition in Taiwan is a response to the Sustainable Development Goals, and electricity sector-related laws could be used as legal tools for national energy transition. This study concludes that Taiwanese and Japanese governments can strengthen their environmental regulations to promote fair competition directly, with fair competition then being able to enhance stable electricity supply, to enable these countries to move towards the seventh Sustainable Development Goal and its indicators. Finally, the analysis structure used in this study could be used as a policy analysis tool for other countries during their own energy transition, when a nation is willing to strategically reform its electricity sector and make sustainable choices regarding transition paths and policy bundles that are suitable for the situation of the individual country. Then, a nation can make revisions to its laws and formulate a policy that is in line with local conditions, while as simultaneously implementing the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Section: Energy Justice and Its Challenges In Taiwanmentioning

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National Energy Transition Framework toward SDG7 with Legal Reforms and Policy Bundles: The Case of Taiwan and Its Comparison with Japan

2020

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“…The most productive areas of the world to investigate how such systems generate different outcomes in energy are outside the EU and the USA, where communities routinely live with unconventional systems. Some communities in Nepal Islar et al 2017) have benefited from close proximity to energy sources. Without a national grid infrastructure, local communities rely upon small-scale energy renewable sources such as a shared biogas facility.…”

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“…Their proximity to the energy source has, to some extent, increased "their capabilities" (such as clean cooking, mobile charging) and greater senses of community. They are, however, dependent upon their own knowledge for maintaining their energy supply, and open to exploitation by companies (Islar et al 2017). We move on to explore these new spaces of undue process in relation to our case study in the DRC.…”

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Energy Justice, Hydropower and Grid Systems in the Global South

Kruger

McCauley

2019

Energy Justice Across Borders

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Grid systems are key focal points for energy debates in the Global South. Off-and on-grid realities, with a plethora of microgrid systems in between, exist simultaneously with differing under-explored consequences for rights, responsibilities, opportunities and constraints. We argue that a conceptualisation around macroand micro-levels of justice helps to elucidate this complexity. A comparative philosophical approach ensues through a spatial exploration of justice in relation to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the grid systems derived from hydropower. Original qualitative data is presented, analysed and reflected upon with concluding insights into conducting energy justice in the Global South.

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“…While Nepal has made appreciable progress in increasing electricity access to households over the last two decades, electricity's use and benefits are embedded in pre-existing structures, institutions, and norms. These structures, institutions and norms can form what Islar et al (2017) call feasibility constraints, such that electricity's use and benefits are not equally distributed between various groups. Unequal uses and benefits are most notable between low-and high-income households, rural and urban populations, and between women and men.…”

Section: Energy and Gender In Nepal: Institutions And Normsmentioning

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“…Energy justice is increasingly used to critique the political economy of energy, and studies anchored in this tradition explicitly address the situation of marginalized stakeholders-e.g., women, social groups, communities-seeking to bring knowledge about such groups to the attention of those "in charge" of the governance of energy systems, whether public or private. We draw from Islar et al (2017) by focusing on questions of what energy is used for, what values and (moral) principles ought to guide energy decisions as well as who benefits and loses. We take their contribution to the energy justice framework further by looking at these questions from a gender perspective.…”

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Rice Cookers, Social Media, and Unruly Women: Disentangling Electricity's Gendered Implications in Rural Nepal

Matinga¹,

Gill

Winther

2019

Front. Energy Res.

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Rice cookers, social media, and television sets are commonly used in rural Nepal. In this paper we explore how gender norms condition the uptake of these artifacts, and the gendered implications of their uses. We draw on material from a household survey, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews, collected in 2017 in Dhading and Tanahun districts in rural Nepal. The results show that each of the three artifacts initiate distinct, gendered dynamics in terms of uptake, uses, and effects. Women's use of electric rice cookers aligns with their gendered identity as cooks, helping them improve their gendered work and do not trigger resistance from men. In contrast, the use of mobile phones, social media, and television, prompt complex gender outcomes, resistances, and negotiations. Young people use social media to initiate self-negotiated marriages, shunning arranged marriages thus increasing their agency. It was reported that these self-negotiated marriages tend to be earlier (ages 12-14) than before, as young girls drop out of school to marry their chosen partners, thus threatening their empowerment. Access to television and internet has increased awareness about family planning methods, but persistent gender hierarchies hinder women from freely deciding on and accessing these methods. Women and youth pursuing new opportunities that challenge gender norms are sometimes labeled as unfaithful and unruly by others in the villages. The paper highlights the need to understand subversive responses to social and cultural changes mediated by electricity so that policy and practice can support the desired social transformations.

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Feasibility of energy justice: Exploring national and local efforts for energy development in Nepal

Cited by 96 publications

References 35 publications

National Energy Transition Framework toward SDG7 with Legal Reforms and Policy Bundles: The Case of Taiwan and Its Comparison with Japan

National Energy Transition Framework toward SDG7 with Legal Reforms and Policy Bundles: The Case of Taiwan and Its Comparison with Japan

Energy Justice, Hydropower and Grid Systems in the Global South

Rice Cookers, Social Media, and Unruly Women: Disentangling Electricity's Gendered Implications in Rural Nepal

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