Social Planning for Energy Transitions

Miller, Clark A.; Richter, Jennifer

doi:10.1007/s40518-014-0010-9

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“…Over the past quarter century, extensive research has documented that energy-typically represented as a technological and economic phenomenon-is also fundamentally social in its origins and organization, woven into societal, geographic, and geopolitical arrangements at scales from the individual to the planet (for recent reviews, see Sovacool 2014, Miller and Richter 2014, Zimmerer 2011. To date, however, work in the energy social sciences has had little impact on energy policy.…”

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Socio-energy systems design: A policy framework for energy transitions

Miller

Richter

O’Leary

2015

Energy Research & Social Science

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In the context of large-scale energy transitions, current approaches to energy policy have become too narrowly constrained around problems of electrons, fuel, and carbon, the technologies that provide them, and the cost of those technologies. Energy systems are deeply enmeshed in broad patterns of social, economic, and political life and organization, and significant changes to energy systems increasingly are accompanied by social, economic, and political shifts. Energy policy is therefore, in practice, a problem of socio-energy system design. In this article, we offer a definition of socio-energy systems, reconceptualize key questions in energy policy in terms of socio-energy systems change, analyze three case studies of energy policy development as problems of socio-energy systems design, and develop recommendations for rethinking energy policy and governance in the context of socio-energy systems transitions.

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Socio-energy systems design: A policy framework for energy transitions

Miller

Richter

O’Leary

2015

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…Identifying, diagnosing and redressing the unequal costs of energy transitions across multiple levels of governance and supply-chains that stretch across different political jurisdictions is a challenging task for publics, researchers and decision-makers alike (Miller and Richter, 2014). Thus there is a need for greater examination of how energy justice is constructed so that decision-makers, citizens and other actors can identify and address the unequal distribution of costs, risks and vulnerabilities across entire energy lifecycles-supply chains, production, distribution and waste chains, and therefore a fortiori, energy system transitions .…”

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Politicizing energy justice and energy system transitions: Fossil fuel divestment and a “just transition”

2017

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The burgeoning energy justice scholarship highlights the importance of justice and equity concerns in the context of global decarbonization and the transition to a green economy. This paper seeks to extend current conceptualizations of energy justice across entire energy lifecycles, from extraction to final use, to offer an analytically richer and more accurate picture of the (in)justice impacts of energy policy decisions. We identify two key areas that require greater attention and scrutiny in order to enact energy justice within a more democratized energy system. First, we call for greater recognition of the politics, power dynamics and political economy of socio-technical energy transitions. We use the example of the fossil fuel divestment movement as a way to shift energy justice policy attention upstream to focus on the under-researched injustices relating to supply-side climate policy analysis and decisions. Second, the idea of a "just transition" and the distributional impacts on "and the role of" labor in low-carbon transitions must be addressed more systematically. This focus produces a more directly political and politicizing framing of energy (in)justice and a just energy transition.

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“…The collection of research and analysis that falls under the rubric of “ social planning for energy transitions” is focused on questions about energy futures, energy policy designs, and institutions to enhance public participation, behaviors, and social acceptance (Miller & Richter 2014 ). There is a long history of energy, petrochemical, and infrastructure projects with very negative impacts.…”

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Energy Transitions

Mulvaney

2020

Sustainable Energy Transitions

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The way energy is extracted, transported, used, and disposed of, is changing right before our eyes, again. Many say we are witnessing a major energy transition to renewable energy, or maybe several energy transitions at the same time. It is not the first time. Energy transitions recur throughout human civilization. For much of human history, energy access, resource development, and the accompanying technological changes increased quality of life, albeit some more than others, for most of the human population. Putting biomass energy to use led to sedentary human communities, agriculture, metallurgy, and so on; it powered most of human history. By the mid-nineteenth century, fossil fuels provided many of the modern conveniences of life—food, cities, industries, transportation, and electricity.

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Social Planning for Energy Transitions

Cited by 45 publications

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Socio-energy systems design: A policy framework for energy transitions

Socio-energy systems design: A policy framework for energy transitions

Politicizing energy justice and energy system transitions: Fossil fuel divestment and a “just transition”

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