This article explores how concepts from justice and ethics can inform energy decision-
making and highlight the moral and equity dimensions of energy production and use. It …

Economic development, technological innovation, and policy change are especially
prominent factors shaping energy transitions. Therefore explaining energy transitions …

Renewable Energy normally refers to usable energy sources that are an alternative to fuel
sources, but without the negatively evaluated consequences of the replaced fuels. Although …

The concept of a 'just transition'to a low‐carbon economy is firmly embedded in mainstream
global discourses about mitigating climate change. Drawing on Karl Polanyi's political …

This short essay first reviews the pioneers of energy transition research both in terms of data
as well as theories. Three major insights that have emerged from this nascent research …

Transitions to cleaner, renewable energy are at the heart of policies in many countries. The
focus on renewables has, if anything, become greater recently as uncertainty grows about …

Sustainable energy transitions necessarily comprise both socio-technical aspects as well as
important implications for social justice. However, in existing scholarship, these are mainly …

All too often, energy policy and technology discussions are limited to the domains of
engineering and economics. Many energy consumers, and even analysts and policymakers …

This book explores how, in the wake of the Anthropocene, the growing call for urgent
decarbonisation and accelerated energy transitions might have unintended consequences …

The academic interpretation of the concept of just transitions has evolved considerably over
the last two decades. What was generally addressed in academic research in a technocratic …