EREN特刊征稿|Focus on People and Place in Energy Justice

特刊详情

客座编辑

• Stuti Haldar，瑞典隆德大学
• Giuseppe Pellegrini-Masini，挪威科技大学
• Megan Davies，南非斯坦陵布什大学
• Rita Vasconcellos L. dOliveira Bouman，挪威科技大学

主题范围

The energy transition agenda has now evolved to being a means to achieve transformative change, addressing socio-economic development and environmental sustainability. The triumvirate of energy justice- distributional, recognition and procedural are a useful framework that offers both evaluative and normative insights into the challenges and opportunities of tapping into energy to fuel sustainable development in general. It presents a lens to identify where injustices occur and who is most vulnerable. Normatively, it suggests what new processes of remediation and avoidance can be adopted through policy and regulation.

However, energy justice has drawn criticism for often being conceived in a top-down manner, i.e. overlooking diverse imaginaries of energy futures, especially those emerging from often local actors with weak agency to participate in change processes. This is important because local communities, including indigenous groups, are often directly and most acutely impacted by energy infrastructure.

With global acceleration of energy transition and green development policies there is also a proliferation of debates regarding democratic and participatory decision making. There is an imperative for approaches to understand how this ‘agency-paradox’ can be resolved in energy transition and green industrialisation interventions. The following themes (but not limited to) hence, form the basis of enquiry for this issue:

• Place-based approaches to energy justice
• Human agency and institutional work in shaping energy futures
• Energy communities, democracy and grassroots collective action including civil society actors
• Role of institutions and public and private sector actors
• Indigenous communities and alternative knowledge streams
• Financing energy transitions in resource constrained contexts
• Making the energy transition an opportunity for inclusion of vulnerable individuals and communities

This focus issue invites empirical and conceptual papers from diverse geographical, disciplinary and methodological perspectives on how actors at multiple levels of energy transition governance, planning and consumption can engage meaningfully in change processes to legitimise and operationalise more just energy futures at local and sub-national levels. Overall, we encourage place-based and agentic approaches to energy justice in research, policy and practice.

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投稿截止日期：2025年10月31日。