Enfranchising the future: Climate justice and the representation of future generations

González‐Ricoy, Iñigo; Rey, Felipe

doi:10.1002/wcc.598

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“…But future work could explore in a more detailed fashion, deliberation and decision-making on speci c models of NSB. Our research approach could be extended, for instance, to consider other species 45 , and future generations 46 . Another issue to explore is the ways in which these processes may be institutionalised within energy governance more broadly, in different energy regimes.…”

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An interdisciplinary exploration of responsible algorithm design in the era of distributed energy resources

Ransan-Cooper¹,

Sturmberg

Shaw

et al. 2021

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While the governance of algorithms is of growing societal concern, the energy sector has been slow to engage with this issue. We argue that there are at least three systemic concerns to the design and operation of algorithms in the new, digital energy era. Namely, reliance on algorithms can bias considerations towards the easily quantifiable, that they can inhibit explainability, transparency and trust, and that they could undermine energy users’ autonomy and control. We examine these tensions through an interdisciplinary study that reveals the diversity and materiality of algorithms. Our study focuses on neighbourhood-scale batteries (NSBs) in Australia as a case study of new energy algorithms. We conducted qualitative research with energy sector professionals and citizens to understand the range of perceived benefits and risks of NSBs and the algorithms that drive their behaviour. Issues raised by stakeholders were integrated into our development of multiple NSB optimisation algorithms, whose impacts on NSB owners and customers we quantified through techno-economic modelling. Our results show the allocation of benefits and risks vary considerably between different algorithm designs. This insight a need to improve energy algorithm governance, enabling accountability and responsiveness across the design and use of algorithms so that the digitisation of energy technology does not lead to adverse public outcomes. Taken together, our study underscores the importance for researchers and developers of new algorithms to take a holistic view of stakeholders and public benefit, and demonstrates one method to practice responsible algorithm design.

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An interdisciplinary exploration of responsible algorithm design in the era of distributed energy resources

Ransan-Cooper¹,

Sturmberg

Shaw

et al. 2021

Preprint

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“…There has been a growing body of work also focusing on children and climate change, and their lack of voice in climate change negotiations and governance, with climate change representing a form of “structural violence” (Sanson & Burke, 2020). Recent efforts to provide indirect representation for future generations in government decision‐making in the parliaments of Wales, Israel, Hungary, Finland and Chile and the use of ombudspeople for future generations suggest this will be a site of further scholarly interest in future (Gonzalez‐Ricoy & Rey, 2019).…”

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Toward transformative climate justice: An emerging research agenda

Newell

Srivastava

Næss

et al. 2021

WIREs Climate Change

149

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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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“…Another set of divergences between publics are temporal. To take one prominent example, future generations bear the environmental and the debt and clean-up consequences of contemporary infrastructural decisions and may be regarded as part of an infrastructural public but seldom have formal legal status or standing (Flyvbjerg 2014, Gonzalez-Ricoy & Rey 2019. However, we lack room here to address these temporal divergences and possible solutions.…”

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Infrastructures and Laws: Publics and Publicness

Kingsbury

Maisley

2021

Annu. Rev. Law. Soc. Sci.

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Infrastructures are technical-social assemblages infused in politics and power relations. They spur public action, prompting increased scholarly reference to the practices of infrastructural publics. This article explores the normative and conceptual meanings of infrastructures, publics, and infrastructural publics. It distills from political theory traditions of Hannah Arendt, Jürgen Habermas, and Nancy Fraser a normative ideal of publics composed of the persons subject to a particular configuration of power relations that may significantly affect their autonomy. Autonomy can be seriously affected not only by existing or planned infrastructures, with their existing or anticipating users and workers and objectors, but also by the lack of an infrastructure or by the terms of infrastructural exclusions, rationings, channelings, and fiscal impositions. Legal-institutional mechanisms provide some of the means for infrastructural publics to act and be heard, and for conflicts between or within different publics to be addressed, operationalizing legal ideas of publicness. These mechanisms are often underprovided or misaligned with infrastructure. One reason is the murkiness and insecurity of relations of infrastructural publics to legal publics constituted or framed as such by institutions and instruments of law and governance. We argue that thoughtful integration of infrastructural and legal scaling and design, accompanied by a normative aspiration to publicness, may have beneficial effects. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Volume 17 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Enfranchising the future: Climate justice and the representation of future generations

Cited by 39 publications

References 72 publications

An interdisciplinary exploration of responsible algorithm design in the era of distributed energy resources

An interdisciplinary exploration of responsible algorithm design in the era of distributed energy resources

Toward transformative climate justice: An emerging research agenda

Infrastructures and Laws: Publics and Publicness

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