A 2020 article which reviews three main approaches to energy transition and highlights their underlying goals and assumptions. It argues that movements for energy transition must center social and economic justice in their struggles if they want to gain broad-based appeal. [Originally posted at https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gec3.12554]

A 2019 working paper which examines what a 'just transition' to a greener but employment-rich and egalitarian economy might look like. It examines the employment structure the European economy with a focus on the coal sector in the light of European Union commitments to phase out coal and argues that policymakers should devise a specific plan for the sector. [Originally posted at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3402876]

A 2022 study which identifies that future transition policymaking could benefit from using spatially targeted interventions, and in adopting a whole systems approach. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629622001347]

A 2021 working paper which explores the systemic changes in governance that could mitigate challenges associated with efforts to promote a 'just transition'. [Originally posted at https://tips.org.za/images/Working_paper_PCC_Governance_and_the_Just_Transition_2021.pdf]

A 2022 study which identifies a risk of policy commitment to ‘polluter pays’ having sustained negative outcomes for capture firms, along with offshoring/leakage of jobs and GDP, and associated emissions, as demand shifts to lower cost overseas production. [Originally posted at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2022.2110031]

A 2022 dissertation which comprises three papers: 1) a critical overview of fair shares and decarbonization scenarios, and a way to reconcile what should be done with what experts think can be done (with a Canadian case study); 2) a framework for climate testing proposed fossil fuel infrastructure that can be used to evaluate an individual project's compatibility with global or domestic emissions reduction targets (with a case study of Canadian gas); and 3) an analysis of the potential for a shift towards services to mitigate GHG emissions and other environmental impacts. [Originally posted at https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/991208/1/HorenGreenford_PhD_F2022]

A 2019 study which applies a 35-statement Q-methodology to identify the priorities of stakeholders as they relate to the Irish expanded polystyrene (EPS)/extruded polystyrene (XPS) market and the wider societal transition to a circular economy. [Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/23/6834]

A 2022 article which discusses how energy policy measures for realizing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 7 and 13 in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) could be framed towards achieving energy justice by 2030. [Originally posted at https://academic.oup.com/jwelb/article/15/3/223/6564681]

A 2021 working paper which develops three generic models that allow policymakers to analyze the impact of introducing either a nodal, a zonal, or a uniform pricing system on the three horns of the energy trilemma in their country. [Originally posted at https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/49490]

A 2020 paper which reviews the academic literature to understand the state of knowledge on how diffusion of low-carbon technologies impacts gender and social equity in intersectional ways. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629620303492]

A 2022 review which findings suggest that there has been little explicit focus on energy justice in the literature on Sweden’s energy system. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629622003656]

A 2020 article which undertakes a systematic mapping of 649 cases of resistance movements to both fossil fuel (FF) and low carbon energy (LCE) projects, providing the most comprehensive overview of such place-based energy-related mobilizations to date. It finds that (1) Place-based resistance movements are succeeding in curbing both fossil-fuel and low-carbon energy projects. Over a quarter of projects encountering social resistance have been cancelled, suspended or delayed. (2) The evidence highlights that low carbon, renewable energy and mitigation projects are as conflictive as FF projects, and that both disproportionately impact vulnerable groups such as rural communities and Indigenous peoples. [Originally posted at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abc197/meta]

A 2020 article which argues that farmers are important actors in the context of supplying biomass, but their agency is limited by numerous institutional factors, such as cultivation practices, labor markets, and information systems. [Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/24/10355]

A 2021 policy brief which finds that around 20% of jobs in the UK and 14 European economies can be considered directly and indirectly green. It also finds some evidence that greener jobs tend to be ‘better’ jobs. [Originally posted at https://www.cccep.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Are-Green-Jobs-Good-Jobs_Policy-brief.pdf]

A 2019 report which looks specifically at the manufacturing sector and what policy lessons can be learned from the last decade or more: is there more that could be done to bring greater numbers of the jobs in the Scottish renewables manufacturing supply chain to Scotland? And what are the implications of this for Scottish energy and industrial policy more broadly? [Originally posted at http://www.davidpowell.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/NEF_Re-energising-manufacturing_Nov.pdf]

A 2022 report which provides an overview of the Research and Innovation (R&I) approaches to the energy and environment sectors in Wales. It draws on strategic policy documents and previous work conducted within the TRACER project, namely the mobilisation of stakeholders in an Entrepreneurial Discovery Process, as per the Smart Specialisation framework. [Originally posted at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/79786/]