A 2016 discussion paper which presents a strategy for protecting workers and communities that may be threatened by the current and future transformation of the U.S. energy system. [Originally posted at https://ecology.iww.org/PDF/LNS/beyond-a-band-aid-just-energy-transition_2016_LNS-IEER.pdf]

A 2019 report which identifies workers in sectors and regions at high-risk in the transition and examine their skills profiles while keeping the principles of 'just transition' in mind. [Originally posted at https://www.nerinstitute.net/sites/default/files/research/2019/working%20paper%20series%20no%2065_final.pdf]

A 2020 report which outlines the main features of the US Green New Deal (GND) with Senator Bernie Sanders’ more detailed, fully costed version, exploring its implications for policymaking and social science-based energy research. We focus on two of its most striking characteristics: its macroeconomics; and its inextricable linkage of climate change mitigation and the reduction of economic inequality. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629620301067]

A 2022 article which provides a review and thematic coding of visions for a just energy future, which enables an understanding of how energy justice links to history, policy, and other social movements, and concretizes calls for “place-based”, “frontline-centered”, and “spatially situated” approaches to energy justice. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629622003589]

A 2021 study which proposes a recovery program from the COVID-19 pandemic for Pennsylvania that is capable of exerting an effective counterforce against the state’s ongoing recession in the short run while also building a durable foundation for an economically viable and ecologically sustainable longer-term recovery. [Originally posted at https://reimagineappalachia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Pollin-et-al-PA-Final-Report-1-22-21.pdf]

A 2022 report which examines the impact of coal transitions on the workers, communities, and corporations in several European countries and explores the processes, policies, and programmes implemented to manage the transition. [Originally posted at https://newclimate.org/sites/default/files/2022-11/coal_phase_out_paper_nov_2022.pdf]

A 2019 dissertation which explores the political-economic, social, and cultural dynamics of coal plant closures and the emergent grassroots movement to facilitate a 'just transition' for workers and communities who are disproportionately burdened by shifting energy economies. [Originally posted at https://www.proquest.com/openview/5fbacd06b1a0973243f879cee52dde0e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=51922&diss=y]

A 2021 dissertation in which the author conducted a systematic review of the academic literature on 'just transition' to synthesize identified elements of 'just transition'. Next, the author collected a novel employment factors dataset and combined it with an integrated assessment model to analyze the energy sector employment implications of climate policies. Whether ‘local’ renewable jobs can be created for fossil fuel workers in key coal producing countries is also assessed. Finally, several novel datasets were collected to quantify and compare the scale of current socio-economic dependency on coal at the district level in India. [Originally posted at https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0398719]

A 2020 case study which explores the learning and education of a community organization involved with multiple 'just transition' initiatives in Eastern Kentucky where the economies were formerly dominated by the coal industry. [Originally posted at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Colleen-Unroe/publication/344416233_Education_and_learning_to_support_a_Just_Transition_in_Central_Appalachia/links/5f733fe9458515b7cf575327/Education-and-learning-to-support-a-Just-Transition-in-Central-Appalachia.pdf]

A 2022 report which aims to deliver a policy blueprint and toolkit for the 'just transition', particularly for workers in energy/mining, transport, and agriculture. [Originally posted at http://mediadon.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/COSATU-Just-Transition-Blueprint-Full-version.pdf]

A 2020 publication which proposes a participative decision-making model, The People’s Transition, that views climate action as an enabler of local development, gives people and communities ownership of the transition to zero carbon societies and enhances public support for a 'just transition' by tackling inequality and raising standards of living through the delivery of climate solutions. [Originally posted at https://feps-europe.eu/wp-content/uploads/downloads/publications/feps-tasc%20the%20peoples%20transition%20-%202020.pdf]

A 2021 study which utilizes adult learning, working-class, hegemonic masculinity, and political economy theories to explore the education and learning that supports engagement in the 'just transition' movement in Central Appalachia. [Originally posted at https://www.proquest.com/openview/587093b3cad9eaf9a0bfd85fad29921e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y]

A 2020 study which assesses home-heating energy-poverty risk across 18,641 Small Area clusters in Ireland. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421520305127]

A 2019 report which highlights the successes achieved in 2019 from previously submitted projects and showcases a brand new round of innovative project. [Originally posted at https://heraldcourier.com/reclaiming-appalachia-coalition-report-2019-pdf/pdf_19202b84-feb9-11e9-9bd7-235cf41223bf.html]

A 2021 report which proposes three policy options to uplift communities that is suffering from financial downfall during the energy transition shift by providing subsidies to renewable energy companies that expand operations in former coal communities, reclaim the land, and provide job retraining. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencepolicyjournal.org/article_1038126_jspg180202.html]

A 2020 report which highlights successes from 2019-2020 and provides case studies of projects that advance community development amidst abandoned mine lands, or in some cases by reclaiming abandoned mine features as part of the project. [Originally posted at https://appvoices.org/resources/AML-RAC/AML_RAC_report-2020-b-low-res.pdf]