A “spatially just” transition? A critical review of regional equity in decarbonisation pathways

Garvey, Alice; Norman, Jonathan; Büchs, Milena; Barrett, John

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2022.102630

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“…The transition seems to lack the attributes of fairness that are widely evoked in the literature [79][80][81]. The most substantial decline in value seems to be incurred by properties located in medium-sized cities characterized by less relevant and less vibrant markets.…”

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confidence: 99%

Urban Disparities in Energy Performance Premium Prices: Towards an Unjust Transition?

Micelli,

Giliberto,

Righetto

et al. 2024

Land

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In recent years, numerous studies have explored how energy and environmental performance impact property values. Superior energy efficiency is the basis for value disparities in real estate markets. However, measurements of these variations vary significantly. This research aims to investigate the relationship between market size and vitality and market value differences. This has significant implications for the nature of the energy transition, potentially determining fairness or inequality. The study considers the real estate market in six Italian cities: three metropolitan (Milan, Turin, and Florence) and three medium-sized cities (Padua, Mestre, and Bergamo). The sample includes 2935 properties. In metropolitan cities, hedonic pricing models confirm the relevance of energy performance in market value formation, highlighting a potential depreciation in property values by up to 30% between properties belonging to the highest energy class (A) compared to the lowest (G), and 14% between class D and G. Such premium gaps are halved in medium-sized cities. Conclusions foresee a scenario of socially and economically unjust transition that must be considered in policies aimed at improving the energy efficiency of existing buildings, with a specific concern for the nature and characteristics of the real estate markets involved.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Disparities in Energy Performance Premium Prices: Towards an Unjust Transition?

Micelli,

Giliberto,

Righetto

et al. 2024

Land

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“…Therefore, some scholars advocate and explore ST with an emphasis on environmental justice in the hope that inequalities, such as exposure to ill-health and localized degradation, are not reproduced or exacerbated. These attempts have further imported justice principles into ST studies to develop an integrated framework of “just transition” (e.g., Bouzarovski, 2022; Garvey et al, 2022; While and Eadson, 2022).…”

Section: Socio-technical Innovations In Green Industry Development: I...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Second, the strength of the ST approach lies in analyzing the socio-technical system changes and co-evolution of technologies, markets, user practices, policies, and cultures with green industry development (Yu and Gibbs, 2018). ST research has recently engaged with the work of economic geographers to demonstrate how multi-scalar and place-specific factors can contribute significantly to sustainability transitions (Binz et al, 2020; Garvey et al, 2022; Sengers et al, 2019). Moreover, some scholars have recognized that there is a lack of a critical examination of nature-society relations and power dynamics in the context of mainstream socio-technical and just transition debates (Lawhon and Murphy, 2012; Bouzarovski, 2022).…”

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Geographies of green industries: The interplay of firms, technologies, and the environment

Zhou

Chung

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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The emergence of green industries has been considered from multiple social science perspectives. Economic geographers view green industries as unevenly distributed firms forging green development paths. Sustainability transitions scholars view green industries as niche sectors struggling to mainstream green technologies in existing socio-technical systems. Political ecologists view green industries as metabolic actors whose development shapes and is shaped by the environment. Conceptualizing green industries as the interplay of green firms, socio-technical systems and the environment, this article proposes an integrative framework that synthesizes the three aforementioned perspectives for a research agenda of the geographies of green industries.

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“…Variegated forms of attending to these costs (e.g., by transferring them to ratepayers in some states of the United States or to taxpayers in Germany) depend on different modes of regulating devaluation in the energy sector (e.g., through bankruptcy laws) (Caldecott and McDaniels, 2014). Concomitant impacts of devaluation, particularly unemployment, economic decline, and environmental degradation, disproportionally affect regions economically dependent on fossil fuel industries, potentially creating new forms of spatial inequality driven by decarbonization policies (Garvey et al, 2022).…”

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Geographies of devaluation: Spatialities of the German coal exit

Furnaro

2023

Environ Plan A

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This article analyzes the geographies of the German coal exit by looking at the spatial dimensions of coal devaluation. It argues that while the Energiewende has been described as having a national origin, central triggers of the national coal exit agreement have to do with devaluation pressures created by the combination of global relations in the fuel markets, the territorial bordering of electricity and carbon markets at the European Union level, and place-based and multiscalar anticoal networks. The role of place-based resistance to the past, relational, expected, and imaginary concomitant forms of devaluation in lignite regions is also described as a key spatial barrier to the German coal phase-out. It will be shown that the emergence of a coal exit agreement, which represents a national fix to address not only existing market devaluation forces, but also a double legitimacy crisis for the government, was based on spatially uneven relations. The German case is relevant for the geographies of energy transitions for showing how multispatial strategies, the spatial organization of energy markets, and the territorial regulation of energy systems shape the possibilities for the devaluation needed to accelerate the pace of the fossil fuels phase-out.

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A “spatially just” transition? A critical review of regional equity in decarbonisation pathways

Cited by 21 publications

References 121 publications

Urban Disparities in Energy Performance Premium Prices: Towards an Unjust Transition?

Urban Disparities in Energy Performance Premium Prices: Towards an Unjust Transition?

Geographies of green industries: The interplay of firms, technologies, and the environment

Geographies of devaluation: Spatialities of the German coal exit

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