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

Sovacool, Benjamin K.

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2021.101916

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“…Addressing pressing issues of equity, justice, vulnerability and fairness would humanise aspects of energy consumption or transitions (Lamb et al, 2020;Sovacool, 2021). Yet, little is known about which factors affect perceived legitimacy and fairness of policies and how this in turn affects the support for energy policies and system changes and individuals' quality of life.…”

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A Research Agenda to Better Understand the Human Dimensions of Energy Transitions

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The Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) have a key role to play in understanding which factors and policies would motivate, encourage and enable different actors to adopt a wide range of sustainable energy behaviours and support the required system changes and policies. The SSH can provide critical insights into how consumers could be empowered to consistently engage in sustainable energy behaviour, support and adopt new technologies, and support policies and changes in energy systems. Furthermore, they can increase our understanding of how organisations such as private and public institutions, and groups and associations of people can play a key role in the sustainable energy transition. We identify key questions to be addressed that have been identified by the Platform for Energy Research in the Socio-economic Nexus (PERSON, see person.eu), including SSH scholars who have been studying energy issues for many years. We identify three main research themes. The first research theme involves understanding which factors encourage different actors to engage in sustainable energy behaviour. The second research theme focuses on understanding which interventions can be effective in encouraging sustainable energy behaviour of different actors, and which factors enhance their effects. The third research theme concerns understanding which factors affect public and policy support for energy policy and changes in energy systems, and how important public concerns can best be addressed as to reduce or prevent resistance.

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“…In developing countries, people do not believe that policies are made to protect their rights, society, and their environment; mere speeches to act like a responsible consumer will not be fruitful. Steg et al [57] consider policy and system changes as a significant factor influencing sustainable energy behavior and Sovacool [58] emphasizes perceived fairness, equity, and justice in creating more humanized energy consumption behavior. Also, executive law and regulations should support the policies.…”

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Socio-Individual Prerequisites of Energy Transition in Iran: Investigating Public Acceptance of Solar Panel Technology in Rural Areas

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2021

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Iran has inordinate natural capacity to benefit from solar energy all year. Interim plansby the Iranian government have been implemented to develop energy transition in ruralareas, however, the outcomes have not been promising so far. This research seeks toaddress the question of what factors influence villagers’ tendency towards solar panelacceptance for domestic usage. To answer the question, a survey was conducted amongresidents who had not installed the new technology in the survey time. A model basedon the modified framework of the Technology Acceptance Model for energy transitionwas developed and data was collected from the northern part of Iran—Mazandaranprovince. The data revealed that through the mediating role of attitude, the strongesteffect on adoption intention relates to perceived usefulness. The paper discusses whysolar energy technology is not welcomed in the studied community. The findingscontribute to increase our knowledge about underlying factors on the development ofpublic adoption of renewable energies in a developing country.

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“…There is a rapidly growing literature on just transitions (Morena et al, 2020;Newell & Mulvaney, 2013;Swilling & Annecke, 2012) and many different ideas about the form, content and process for achieving a just transition: one which is attentive to and seeks to address justice dimensions of a chosen transition pathway, especially regarding impacts on poorer workers and communities. Sovacool et al (2019) explore four different decarbonization pathways in Europe and the injustices they generate elsewhere, highlighting how low-carbon transitions can worsen preexisting inequalities in society (Newell & Mulvaney, 2013;Sovacool et al, 2019) as these unfold within different life stages of technologies and global production processes (Sovacool, 2021). Examples include dispossession of land for wind projects in Mexico (Torres Contreras, 2021) and the mineral extraction underwriting "smart" technologies (Mulvaney, 2013(Mulvaney, , 2014.…”

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Toward transformative climate justice: An emerging research agenda

Newell

Srivastava

Næss

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WIREs Climate Change

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Calls for climate justice abound as evidence accumulates of the growing social and environmental injustices aggravated or driven by climate change.There is now a considerable and diverse literature on procedural, distributional and intergenerational dimensions, including questions of recognition in climate justice. Yet its meaning, scope and practical implications are still contested. Importantly, the broader landscape within which climate justice is situated is rapidly changing, bringing new challenges to the understanding and practice of climate justice. This review takes stock of climate justice literature in view of this new context. We find several disconnects and tensions between more philosophical and academic treatments of the subject on the one hand, and "activist"-oriented approaches to climate justice on the other. Scholarship often falls into silos around scales from global and local, between mitigation and adaptation or draws distinctions between climate justice and other forms of (in)justice. This inhibits an understanding of climate justice that can address more directly its underlying root causes in an historically constituted global economic system and intersecting set of social inequalities. We propose a research agenda centered on a transformative approach to climate justice, placing analysis of power in its various guises at the center of its enquiry, and subverting and moving beyond existing distinctions by focusing on the social and institutional relations and inequalities that both produce climate change and profoundly shape responses to it. We elaborate on three key strands of such an approach: inclusive climate justice, deepening climate justice and governance for climate justice.

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

Cited by 300 publications

References 137 publications

A Research Agenda to Better Understand the Human Dimensions of Energy Transitions

A Research Agenda to Better Understand the Human Dimensions of Energy Transitions

Socio-Individual Prerequisites of Energy Transition in Iran: Investigating Public Acceptance of Solar Panel Technology in Rural Areas

Toward transformative climate justice: An emerging research agenda

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