A 2020 paper which addresses the following questions: 1. What have been the documented distributional impacts of past declines in natural resource extraction, disaggregated by gender and by age? 2. How have distributional impacts been mitigated in the past? [Originally posted at https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/distributional-impacts-of-mining-transitions-1.pdf]

A 2022 paper which leverages documentary analysis of data across a wide array of sources to test these claims and identify lessons by creating a novel just energy transition framework. [Originally posted at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13705-022-00345-5]

A 2022 paper which seeks to address the question: how were people “brought in” for the production of coal during socialism, how were they subsequently “pushed out”, and how challenging is it now for the Jiu Valley strategy to reassemble a network to support the post-coal transition? [Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/7/1022]

A 2019 article which discusses the entanglements of coal with contentious development agendas in many parts of the world through a climate justice lens that engages the cultural politics surrounding coal and energy transition. [Originally posted at https://direct.mit.edu/glep/article/19/2/149/14931/Coal-Climate-Justice-and-the-Cultural-Politics-of]

A 2011 paper which explores the opportunities for a 'just transition' to low carbon and sustainable energy systems; one that addresses the current inequities in the distribution of energy benefits and their human and ecological costs. [Originally posted at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2351464]

A 2022 thesis which contributes to the emerging field of scientific climate justice debate that raises questions of just adaptation and in which ways it is addressed in climate change adaptation policies under the agenda of 'just transition'. The focus of the thesis is particularly on European climate change adaptation dialogue, in the platform of a public consultation organized by the European Commission. [Originally posted at https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/342694/Leppanen_Saara_MScThesis_2022.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y]

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 2021 knowledge synthesis report which contributes to the transdisciplinary and intersectoral envisioning and implementation of a just post-carbon society in Canada. [Originally posted at https://islandscholar.ca/islandora/object/ir%3A23919/datastream/PDF/view]

A 2022 chapter which reviews the origins of the 'just transition' concept in the late twentieth century labour movement, characterizes other social movements’ co-optation of the concept over the subsequent decades, and offers a deeper examination of the (many) theories of justice that animate the (contested) 'just transition' concept. [Originally posted at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4181820]

A 2022 study which is oriented around the question: how do those living and working in the Canadian Oil Sands interpret the proposal for a 'just transition'? [Originally posted https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0415861]

A 2020 dissertation which argues that the 'just transition' policy framework may not vivify labor internationalism or erode support for right-wing populists if 'just transitions' are not part of leftwing populist projects. [Originally posted at https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/104394/Abraham_JC_D_2020.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y]

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 2022 review which examines the politics of achieving more just outcomes by asking, what is our current understanding of justice advocacy and the impacts of such advocacy on the energy transition? In this study, the authors systematically review articles that include the key concepts of 'just transition' or 'energy justice' and that examine advocacy in energy transition contexts. [Originally posted at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac7341/meta]

A 2016 submission which is filed on behalf of the United Steel, Paper, Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (hereinafter the “United Steelworkers”, “USW” or “Steelworkers”) in response to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology’s call for submissions on Canada’s manufacturing sector. [Originally posted at https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/421/INDU/Brief/BR8515863/br-external/UnitedSteelworkers-e.pdf]

A 2022 report which returns to the economic restructuring literature of the 1980s and 1990s to provide a theoretical framework for understanding ‘spatial divisions’ of low carbon work and how they might be shaped to ensure economically 'just transition'. [Originally posted at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13563467.2021.1967909?needAccess=true]

A 2022 report which stresses the urgency to act and recommends a variety of immediate and long-term actions to be implemented by governments, businesses and society. The authors depict the current and the desired situation and elaborate on trends, posing opportunities and obstacles for the transformation of the transport sector. [Originally posted at https://changing-transport.org/wp-content/uploads/202204_NDC-TIA-Council_The-Path-to-Zero.pdf]