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Title Radical energy justice: a Green Deal for Romanian coal miners?
ID_Doc 62874
Authors LaBelle, MC; Bucata, R; Stojilovska, A
Title Radical energy justice: a Green Deal for Romanian coal miners?
Year 2023
Published Journal Of Environmental Policy & Planning, 25, 2
DOI 10.1080/1523908X.2021.1992266
Abstract This article proposes the energy justice framework can benefit from a radical reframing to expose broader structural injustices in the transitions towards a net-zero energy system. There are two objectives of this paper: First, is to outline how energy justice can provide a radical critique of injustices of the energy system - a more activist centered approach; and second, to use energy justice to identify who is responsible for unjust policies within the energy system. The second point is important to understand what is meant by a 'just transition.' Who decides how others are compensated for the transition and the loss of their jobs? The theoretical limitation of energy justice is the normative framing which does not identify the structural causes of injustice and avoids identifying the source causing the structural injustice. This article develops and applies radical energy justice to the case of the Jiu Valley in Romania, a coal-mining region, and an early site for the European Union's Green Deal Just Transition Mechanism.
Author Keywords Energy justice; Green Deal; just transition; energy transition; radical energy justice
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:000710031700001
WoS Category Development Studies; Regional & Urban Planning
Research Area Development Studies; Public Administration
PDF https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1523908X.2021.1992266?needAccess=true
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