Who are the victims of low-carbon transitions? Towards a political ecology of climate change mitigation

BK Sovacool - Energy Research & Social Science, 2021 - Elsevier
This study critically examines 20 years of geography and political ecology literature on the
energy justice implications of climate change mitigation. Grounded in an expert guided …

A perspective on the sustainability of cathode materials used in lithium‐ion batteries

BE Murdock, KE Toghill… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Electric vehicles powered by lithium‐ion batteries are viewed as a vital green technology
required to meet CO2 emission targets as part of a global effort to tackle climate change …

Equity, technological innovation and sustainable behaviour in a low-carbon future

BK Sovacool, P Newell, S Carley, J Fanzo - Nature human behaviour, 2022 - nature.com
The world must ambitiously curtail greenhouse gas emissions to achieve climate stability.
The literature often supposes that a low-carbon future will depend on a mix of technological …

[HTML][HTML] Movements shaping climate futures: A systematic mapping of protests against fossil fuel and low-carbon energy projects

L Temper, S Avila, D Del Bene, J Gobby… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In this article we undertake a systematic mapping of 649 cases of resistance movements to
both fossil fuel (FF) and low carbon energy (LCE) projects, providing the most …

[HTML][HTML] European Green Deal necropolitics: Exploring 'green'energy transition, degrowth & infrastructural colonization

A Dunlap, L Laratte - Political Geography, 2022 - Elsevier
This article critically examines the GND (Green New Deal) platform by exploring the reality of
energy development under the European Green Deal (EGD). Taking a special interest in …

The methodologies, geographies, and technologies of energy justice: a systematic and comprehensive review

KEH Jenkins, BK Sovacool, N Mouter… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The energy justice literature has seen a rapid surge in both academic and practical
popularity. However, there has been less systematic reflection on the research conducted so …

[HTML][HTML] Social warfare for lithium extraction? Open-pit lithium mining, counterinsurgency tactics and enforcing green extractivism in northern Portugal

A Dunlap, M Riquito - Energy Research & Social Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The European Union (EU) is highly dependent on importing raw materials for low-
carbon infrastructures from around the globe. This material dependence has, since 2019 …

[HTML][HTML] Low-carbon technologies and just energy transition: Prospects for electric vehicles

A Dall-Orsoletta, P Ferreira, GG Dranka - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The impacts of low-carbon technologies are spread across countries and lifecycle stages in
ways that can compromise the achievement of an inclusive and equitable energy transition …

[HTML][HTML] Energy justice as a search light for gender-energy nexus: Towards a conceptual framework

M Feenstra, G Özerol - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Differences between women and men in their access to and use of energy services
constitutes the core of gender-energy nexus research. In early 2010s, the concept of energy …

[HTML][HTML] When subterranean slavery supports sustainability transitions? Power, patriarchy, and child labor in artisanal Congolese cobalt mining

BK Sovacool - The Extractive Industries and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
Through the critical lenses of “modern slavery,”“dispossession,” and “gendering,” this study
examines the contours of power, patriarchy, and child labor in the artisanal and small-scale …