Introduction to evaluating energy justice across the life cycle: A social life cycle assessment approach

Fortier, Marie‐Odile P.; Teron, Lemir; Reames, Tony G.; Munardy, Dynta Trishana; Sullivan, Breck M.

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.11.022

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“…Going beyond greenhouse gas emissions is critical to sustain our environment [50]. Consequently, improving the scope of energy systems models is a fundamental step to avoid unsustainable investments in the power sector.…”

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Quantifying the cost of leaving the Paris Agreement via the integration of life cycle assessment, energy systems modeling and monetization

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Current energy systems models focus on cost minimization with a bound on some greenhouse gas emissions. This limited environmental scope can lead to mixes that are not consistent with our sustainable development. To circumvent this limitation, we here make use of the concept of monetization and life cycle assessment to quantify the indirect costs of electricity generation in the design of energy systems. Applying our approach to the United States, we found that the indirect costs of electricity generation could be reduced by as much as 63% by meeting the Paris Agreement. Consequently, the total opportunity cost (i.e., direct and indirect costs) of withdrawing from the Paris Agreement and continuing with the current mix would be as high as 1103 ± 206 billion USD2013 in 2030 (i.e., 6% of the United States gross domestic product in 2017). By optimizing the direct and indirect cost of electricity generation concurrently, we found an optimal ecological solution that attains total economic savings compared to the Paris Agreement mix of as much as 373 ± 164 billion USD2013 in 2030. Our work highlights the need to extend the environmental policies that govern energy systems beyond the direct greenhouse emissions to consider other critical environmental criteria.

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“…As the energy sector contributes significantly to the generation of global inequality , it is important to cause the concept of justice to be involved in the sector's decision-making . This fact has recently attracted the attention of the scientific community, and has multiplied the multidisciplinary evidence focused on conceptualising and measuring the injustices generated by the energy life cycle (Fortier et al, 2019), and on offering solutions in different regions across the world (Malakar et al, 2019).…”

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“…73-92 la toma de decisiones en el sector (Heffron y McCauley, 2017). Este hecho ha llamado la atención de la comunidad científica recientemente y se ha multiplicado la evidencia multidisciplinar centrada en conceptualizar y medir las injusticias que el ciclo de vida de la energía genera (Fortier et al, 2019), y ofrecer soluciones en diferentes regiones del mundo (Malakar et al, 2019).…”

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Medios de comunicación y "stakeholders" contribución al debate público de la pobreza y justicia energética en España

Sanz-Hernández

2024

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Los medios de comunicación y los diferentes actores sociales han jugado un importante papel en la formación de opinión pública en torno a la pobreza e injusticia energética en España. Una investigación con un diseño mixto ha permitido analizar quiénes se han conformado en grupos de interés, su grado de implicación y participación, sus sustanciales contribuciones para la reducción de la desigualdad y sus estrategias comunicativas. Se han analizado 478 noticias de la prensa digital, publicadas entre 2012 y 2017, utilizando análisis de contenido y análisis cualitativo con enfoque fundamentado. La investigación concluye que la pobreza energética se ha afrontado desde el plano asistencial y coyuntural y que este hecho ha propiciado la reclamación mediática de justicia energética y de empoderamiento colectivo para el logro de la ciudadanía energética.

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“…This list of challenges is described in detail in Section 4.2. Connection of social impacts with products rather than with the conduct of companies producing the products [59,60] 7…”

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“…Selection of a preferred method to perform the social impact assessments [4,31,51,59,65] 9 Definition of the system boundaries [13,32,53,57,66,67] 10 Selection of global or location specific data [50,56,59,68] 11 Selection of scoring scales for reporting the results [34,39,50,60,[69][70][71] 12 Selection of stakeholders relevant to the study [39,40,56,57] 4. Discussion…”

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Systematic Map of the Social Impact Assessment Field

Bonilla-Alicea

2019

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Social impact assessment (SIA) provides a methodology for defining, monitoring and employing measures to demonstrate the benefits and/or harms created for target communities through evidence of social outcomes and impacts. Although a recent increase in the number of applications is seen, SIA lacks consensus in its methodology, which increases ambiguity and complicates the generalization of any results obtained from individual studies. The objectives of this study are to investigate the methodology of SIA in order to define trends, state of the art, limitations, knowledge gaps, and to recommend future research directions. This study employs a systematic mapping to determine the methods available to perform SIA, and more importantly to identify a set of fundamental challenges faced by practitioners using SIA. Articles are searched through online databases, and are limited to the English language. A total of 81 articles published between 2009 and 2019 were selected, of which 49 included a case study application. A total of 12 fundamental challenges were identified, based upon the screened articles, which serve as a starting point for future research directions to further enhance the SIA methodology.

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Introduction to evaluating energy justice across the life cycle: A social life cycle assessment approach

Cited by 79 publications

References 25 publications

Quantifying the cost of leaving the Paris Agreement via the integration of life cycle assessment, energy systems modeling and monetization

Quantifying the cost of leaving the Paris Agreement via the integration of life cycle assessment, energy systems modeling and monetization

Medios de comunicación y "stakeholders" contribución al debate público de la pobreza y justicia energética en España

Systematic Map of the Social Impact Assessment Field

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