Global Energy Justice

Sovacool, Benjamin K.; Dworkin, Michael H.

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“…Despite some criticism, such consultation attempts show some attention to justice concepts at a national level (indirectly representing issues of distribution, recognition and procedure). Yet they fail to acknowledge justice manifestations in their systems context, including the upstream impacts of uranium mining and the downstream externality of nuclear waste (Sovacool and Dworkin 2014); albeit nearly all energy sources fail to account for down-and upstream externalities, so nuclear energy is no exception. To do so, however, regards the decision-making community as homogenous, and neglects the idea that injustices at one scale do not necessarily translate across others (Bickerstaff and Agyeman 2009;Heynen, 2003).…”

Section: The Nuclear Examplementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Energy justice has recently emerged as a new cross-cutting social science research agenda, which seeks to apply justice principles to energy policy (McCauley et al 2013), energy production and systems , energy consumption (Hall 2013, Jenkins et al 2014, energy activism (Fuller and McCauley 2015), energy security ) and climate change (Bickerstaff et al 2013, Sovacool 2013, Sovacool and Dworkin 2014. A conceptual review is now required for the consolidation and extension of this research agenda.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Whilst we do not seek to answer these questions directly, we situate this paper within such key debates in the fields of energy studies and social science and the growing application of human-centred approaches to energy challenges. Sovacool and Dworkin (2014) provide the most comprehensive account of philosophical approaches to energy justice to date. Within our exploration, however, we limit the philosophical groundings of energy justice to distributional, procedural and recognition-based tenets.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Energy justice: A conceptual review

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Energy justice has emerged as a new crosscutting social science research agenda which seeks to apply justice principles to energy policy, energy production and systems, energy consumption, energy activism, energy security and climate change. A conceptual review is now required for the consolidation and logical extension of this field. Within this exploration, we give an account of its core tenets: distributional, recognition and procedural. Later we promote the application of this three-pronged approach across the energy system, within the global context of energy production and consumption. Thus, we offer both a conceptual review and a research agenda, providing suggestions of how the field of energy justice could be advanced. Throughout, we explore the key dimensions of this new agenda -its evaluative and normative reach -demonstrating that energy justice offers, firstly, an opportunity to explore where injustices occur, developing new processes of avoidance and remediation and recognizing new sections of society. Secondly, we illustrate that energy justice provides a new stimulating framework for bridging existing and future research on energy production and consumption when whole energy systems approaches are integrated into research designs.In conclusion, we suggest three areas for future research: investigating the non-activist origins of energy justice, engaging with economics, and uniting systems of production and consumption.

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Energy justice: A conceptual review

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“…With the development of energy justice research, Diana Hernandez believes that a full view of energy justice must take into account the complete spectrum of issues from production and distribution to ethical consumption and government regulation (Hernández 2015). Benjamin K. Sovacool and Michael H. Dworkin defined energy justice as a "global energy system" (Sovacool and Dworkin 2014). Energy justice is no longer limited to the accessibility of energy problem but also pays attention to the whole chain of energy utilization, all participants on the benefit and harm of justice, in a more systematic view that concerns justice problems in energy use.…”

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Energy Justice and Construction of Community with a Shared Future for Mankind

Wang

Guan

2019

Energy Justice Across Borders

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The Western approaches on energy justice mostly link energy access to basic need and rights of individuals. These approaches are mainly based on the rights-justice theory of traditional political philosophy. Though Sovacool et al. (Applied Energy 142: 437, 2015) introduce the dimension of moral philosophy and ethical responsibility into the study of energy justice, their standpoint remains individual freedom, equality, and responsibility. However, energy issues are not only a matter of individual rights and responsibilities, nor are they only problems of the distribution and commitment of the accessibility and environmental consequences of energy consumption. From the very beginning, energy issues involve the issue of inter-subject relationships, involving both the responsibility of individuals and of collective subjects. Therefore, it is necessary to jump out of the traditional mode of thinking of individual rights theory and individual responsibility. Based on the traditional Chinese philosophical ethical resources, mainly the Confucian thoughts on hexie (harmony) and yi (just), the "Tianxia" (world) view, and the reflections from the tradition of community both from the West and East, this article links energy justice to the construction of community with a shared future for mankind and puts forward that the foundation of energy justice lies in how to construct the relationship between the subjects (both individual and collective) of justice in the community with a shared future for mankind. Through cases of Yulin and global carbon emissions about energy justice, we propose a holistic perspective on energy justice inspired by the idea of the community with a shared future for mankind, and then point out that we should deal with the four major relations involved in the complete process of energy acquisition, distribution, utilization, and post-processing, in order to build a just energy system. Finally, we propose three possible strategies to deal with issues of energy justice, that is, specific strategy, real-time strategy, and holistic strategy, which may shed some light on the global issues of energy justice.

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“…The recognition of energy law as a holistic domain is a relatively new concept, as most of the existing legal domains have long-lasting traditions. Similarly, the concepts of energy justice, environmental sustainability and the emphasis on climate change are all relatively recent ideas and concerns (Sovacool & Dworkin, 2014;Sovacool et al, 2016). Conversely, the sub-domains of energy law have a longer tradition and have evolved relatively independently.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%