Community-based energy governance and the political: Towards a post-foundational energy democracy DOI Creative Commons
Hitomi Koga, Saška Petrova, Stefan Bouzarovski

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Progress in Environmental Geography, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 29, 2024

Community-based energy governance (CEG) is increasingly seen as reconfiguring existing socio-environmental power dynamics, contributing to just and democratic transitions. Despite its perceived “positive” implications, CEG has often been instrumentalized, undermining potential transform the spatialities of system more democratic. By critically reviewing how concept community mobilized regarding CEG, we seek delineate this mobilization entails a degree romanticization. We then offer an alternative conceptualization by drawing upon post-foundational understanding space community, particularly theorizations Jean-Luc Nancy. argue that through his ontology “being-with,” which demands world where every singularity can expose itself, create for political. In other words, ontological reconceptualizes contingent political disruptibility order, rather than merely institution, or politics. This provides fundamental guideline avoid instrumental appropriations grounds critical conceptualizations in environmental geographies. Furthermore, it guides us understand democracy disruptive sequence democratization, instead institution instrumentalized with scaling-up discourse.

Language: Английский

Decolonising transitions in the Global South: Towards more epistemic diversity in transitions research DOI
Bipashyee Ghosh, Mónica Rámos-Mejía, Rafael Carvalho Machado

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 41, P. 106 - 109

Published: Nov. 10, 2021

Language: Английский

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Assessment of challenges and strategies for driving energy transitions in emerging markets: A socio-technological systems perspective DOI Creative Commons
Nelson Chipangamate, Glen T. Nwaila

Energy Geoscience, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 5(2), P. 100257 - 100257

Published: Oct. 20, 2023

The pursuit of improved quality life standards has significantly influenced the contemporary mining model in 21st century. This era is witnessing an unprecedented transformation driven by pressing concerns related to sustainability, climate change, just energy transition, dynamic operating environments, and complex social challenges. Such transitions present both opportunities obstacles. aim this study provide extensive literature review on transition identify challenges strategies associated with navigating transformations systems. Understanding these particularly critical face severe consequences global warming, where accelerated viewed as a universal remedy. Adopting socio-technological systems perspective, specifically through application Actor Network Theory (ANT), research provides theoretical foundation while categorising into five distinct domains outlining across different dimensions. These insights are tailored for emerging market countries effectively navigate fostering development resilient societies. Furthermore, our findings highlight that encompasses more than mere technological shift; it entails fundamental changes various systemic socio-economic imperatives. Through focusing role structures transitions, makes significant innovative contribution ANT, which historically been criticised its limited acknowledgement structures. Consequently, we propose framework, not only addresses aspects, but also integrates considerations. framework paves way future exploration dynamics. outcomes offer valuable policymakers, researchers, practitioners engaged industry, enabling them comprehend multifaceted involved providing practical effective resolution. incorporating dimension analysis, enhance understanding nature system transformations, facilitating holistic approach towards achieving sustainable markets beyond.

Language: Английский

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Colonial modernity and sustainability transitions: A conceptualisation in six dimensions DOI Creative Commons
Saurabh Arora, Andy Stirling

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 48, P. 100733 - 100733

Published: May 22, 2023

Through European colonialisms spanning five centuries, coloniality – as intersectional stratification and violence directed against ‘other worlds’ has been central to the making of modern societies worldwide. However, these colonial modernities are very rarely addressed within studies on sustainability transitions. This dearth attention means that transitions scholars risk failing challenge reproduction colonially accumulated power privilege in innovation niche development processes. Building theoretical insights from postcolonial decolonial studies, alongside multiple other strands critical social theory, we conceptualise six dimensions modernities. These are: assumptions comprehensive ‘superiority’; appropriation cultural privileges; assertions military supremacy; enforcement gendered domination; extension controlling imaginations; expansion toxic extraction. Interrogating such ways can help unsettle perhaps remedy injustices, while also contributing political struggles for a convivial pluriverse ‘a world which many worlds flourish together difference’.

Language: Английский

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Mapping critical minerals projects and their intersection with Indigenous peoples' land rights in Australia DOI Creative Commons
John Burton, Deanna Kemp, Rodger Barnes

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Energy Research & Social Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 113, P. 103556 - 103556

Published: May 3, 2024

Vastly increased quantities of minerals and metals are needed to scale up renewable energy technologies. Indigenous peoples globally voicing concerns about how this will affect the speed mining development on their lands territories. In paper, we delineate areas Australia where peoples' interests in land formally recognised under legislation. These overlayed with critical project information calculate intersections across 14 commodities. Our results show that 57.8 % projects located have a right negotiate. Including native title claims, these rights available for 79.2 projects. We argue policies must consider upfront – not as an afterthought. To date, shared equitably wealth generated by Australia's mineral endowment. Inequitable outcomes continue without major policy reform.

Language: Английский

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Just Sustainability Transitions: Politics, Power, and Prefiguration in Transformative Change Toward Justice and Sustainability DOI Open Access
Flor Avelino, Katinka Wijsman,

Frank van Steenbergen

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Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 49(1), P. 519 - 547

Published: Aug. 27, 2024

Facing the world's ecological, economic, and social challenges requires us to connect concepts of justice, sustainability, transitions. Bridging discussing heterogeneous fields, we argue that these need complement each other, present just sustainability transitions (JUSTRAs) do so. To define JUSTRAs, review state-of-the-art literature, focusing on understanding three their pairings in various disciplinary fields empirical settings (e.g., environmental transitions, energy food urban justice). We center marginalized voices highlight processes radical transformative change JUSTRAs seek. offer analytical lenses further JUSTRAs: politics, power, prefiguration. complementary are necessary remake world both critical pragmatic ways. Finally, a research agenda foregrounding modes inquiry: analyzing, critiquing, designing.

Language: Английский

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Re-righting renewable energy research with Indigenous communities in Canada DOI Creative Commons

Serasu Duran,

Jordyn Hrenyk, Feyza G. Sahinyazan

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Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 445, P. 141264 - 141264

Published: Feb. 15, 2024

The global call to address climate change and advance sustainable development has created rapid growth in research, investment, policymaking regarding the renewable energy transition of Indigenous communities. From a rightsholder perspective, Peoples' vision sustainability, autonomy, sovereignty should guide research on their needs. In this paper, we present multi-method, inductive examination identify gaps between communities' expressed needs rights, questions researchers policymakers investigate conducted context communities located Canada. We combine systematic review extant literature, scoping grey literature off-grid by non-Indigenous governments non-governmental policy bodies, qualitative primary data collected via fieldwork, an in-depth study Indigenous-led Haíɫzaqv Nation's Climate Action Team. holistically examine these different perspectives emergent themes recommend ways bridge stated community priorities. Specifically, designing equitable practices, understanding worldviews, developing holistic goals, respecting sovereignty, sharing or co-developing knowledge with align priorities closely.

Language: Английский

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Just transitions: Towards more just research DOI Creative Commons
Andréanne Doyon, Katharine McGowan, Nino Antadze

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Energy Research & Social Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 114, P. 103571 - 103571

Published: May 10, 2024

Transitions and transformations literature signals the need for radical large-scale changes more sustainable futures. In addition to plural nuanced understandings of these concepts change, we engage with how do this type research, whom. We ask: How might research based on responsibility, relationality, reciprocity change range possible outcomes transitions transformations, towards just leading equitable inclusive outcomes? Our own response question, humbly lay bare our experiences as white Canadian settler academics still learning from (not speaking for) Indigenous colleagues. frame around pillars invite you consider can incorporate practices in your research. end invitation questions derived reflections. intention is open up discussion, collectively expand transformation

Language: Английский

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Recognizing the dark side of sustainability transitions DOI
Katharine McGowan, Nino Antadze

Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 13(2), P. 344 - 349

Published: Jan. 11, 2023

Language: Английский

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Five priorities to advance transformative transdisciplinary research DOI Creative Commons
Karoline Augenstein,

David PM Lam,

Andra‐Ioana Horcea‐Milcu

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 68, P. 101438 - 101438

Published: March 21, 2024

In response to the climate and biodiversity crisis, number of transdisciplinary research projects in which researchers partner with sustainability initiatives foster transformative change is increasing globally. To enable catalyze substantial change, (TTDR) urgently needed provide knowledge guidance for actions. We review prominent discussions on TTDR draw our experiences from Global South North. Drawing this, we identify key gaps stimulate debate how can by advancing five priority areas: clarify what is, conduct meaningful people-centric research, unpack act at deep leverage points, improve engagement diverse systems, explore potentials risks global digitalization change.

Language: Английский

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Towards epistemic diversity in sustainability transitions: an exploration of hybrid socio-technical systems DOI Creative Commons
Alejandro Balanzó, Mónica Rámos-Mejía

Sustainability Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 18(6), P. 2511 - 2531

Published: July 14, 2023

Abstract A wealth of scholarly work has contributed to make visible and describe the place indigenous peoples knowledge in sustainability transitions. We follow suit, exploring if, how, knowledges take part construction hybrid socio-technical systems, i.e. systems where heterogeneous already coexist give rise emergence specific nuanced patterns. address question: What are types interaction between techno-scientific indigenous/local configurations aiming at sustainability? Our inquiry focuses on circulation patterns systems. Conceptually, we build epistemic diversity hybridisation as means reflect Empirically, carry a theory-driven literature review ground model backdrop MLP perspective. Results show that present overlapping assemblages coexisting constructive tension. Such tension stems from manyfold possible directionalities social production hybrid-oriented non-hybrid-oriented performativity knowledges. This paradoxical nature implies each encounter performs potential within broader web relations system. In terms transitions, pose particular governance challenges. Its risks enabling contradictory, non-viable or illegitimate transition pathways towards sustainability.

Language: Английский

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