A 2022 paper which brings new critical perspectives on low carbon transitions by conceptualising decarbonisation as a form of spatial economic restructuring and its potential implications in reinforcing and/or working against the existing patterns of uneven spatial development. [Originally posted at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2021.1967909]

A 2019 report which sets out the role that investors can play in delivering a just transition in the UK. It seeks to understand the growing momentum in favour of a 'just transition' and to illustrate the implications through a set of place-based examples from Yorkshire and the Humber, before setting out recommendations for investor action. [Originally posted at https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/financing-inclusive-climate-action-in-the-uk-an-investor-roadmap-for-the-just-transition/]

A 2022 study which evaluate the direct non-hydroelectric renewable energy employment impacts from eight types of renewable energy policies. [Originally posted at https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_olink/r/1501/10?clear=10&p10_accession_num=osu1668011402792045]

A 2019 research which analyzes women’s leadership by focusing on how two women-led, non-profit organizations are advancing the renewable energy transition, operationalizing the concept of energy democracy and contributing to the energy justice movement. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629619300829]

A 2018 dissertation which delves deep into community history to understand how the evolution of corporate community relations practices have shaped regional racial formation, community development, and community organizing in Richmond. [Originally posted at https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:m044c6338/fulltext.pdf]

A 2022 report which develops a novel estimate of the revenues generated by fossil fuels for all governments in the United States, then estimates how those revenues change under three stylized scenarios through 2050: Business-as-usual, 2°Celsius, and 1.5°Celsius. [Originally posted at https://media.rff.org/documents/WP_22-3_-_Fiscal_Implications.pdf]

A 2021 editorial which aims at developing a framework that allows for bringing multiple approaches to regional energy transitions into conversation with each other and that helps to understand and explain the complexity of these interdependencies in ways that go beyond observing regional variety in energy transitions. [Originally posted at https://academic.oup.com/cjres/article/14/2/219/6309334]

A 2021 article which argues that the Green New Deal (GND) is right to emphasize equity and justice as a key component of a broader strategy on climate change and energy transitions. [Originally posted at https://energyjustice.indiana.edu/doc/jpampoint-counterpoint-konisky_carley_2021.pdf]

A 2022 study which aims to shed light on the diverse contributions of social movements to staying within the global carbon budget, as well as on the specific outcomes and strategies employed in protests against hydrocarbon activities. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800922000180]

A 2021 paper which asks whether it is possible to align the recovery from the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the necessity to take climate action with innovative local wealth building approaches, to catalyse enhanced local sustainable development, in particular in rural communities. [Originally posted at http://edepositireland.ie/handle/2262/100592]

A 2021 thesis, embedded in the field of political ecology, which draws on 'just transitions' discourses and investigates the social implications of energy transitions for lignite workers in Lusatia. [Originally posted at https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=9063062&fileOId=9065185]

A 2019 paper which assess the existing knowledge base to better understand the economic, social and political consequences of mine closure at the national and subnational scales. [Originally posted at https://cdn.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/navigating-coal-mining-closure-and-societal-change.pdf]

A 2022 report which aims to evaluate the future phase-out of coal generators. The authors optimize for alternative climate policy goals, in addition to air pollution objectives related to the distribution of impacts on the basis of income, race, voting patterns, population density, and National Ambient Air Quality Standards classifications. [Originally posted at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2634-4505/ac70f6/meta]

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 2018 brief which focuses on how fossil fuel production fits into the process of progressing towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and maps a more ambitious pathway forward, using the three guiding questions of the Talanoa Dialogue: Where are we? Where do we want to go? and How do we get there? [Originally posted at https://newsroom.unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/11_12_13__SEI_Talanoa_Fossil_Fuels.pdf]

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]