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Just Sustainabilities: Policy, Planning, and Practice

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Contents

Figure and tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction: making sense of energy justice

Current concerns: energy poverty and the politics of consumption

Justice and energy systems in transition

Towards energy justice?

Emerging research themes and agendas

1 Household energy vulnerability as ‘assemblage’

Introduction

Understanding assemblage

Assemblage and energy vulnerability

Discussion and concluding comments

Acknowledgements

2 Precarious domesticities: energy vulnerability among urban young adults

Introduction

Housing young adults in the UK: unresolved urban and energy policy questions

Overarching trends in the case study area

Table 2.1 Percentages of individuals responding affirmatively to different statements in the questionnaire survey

Experiences of fuel poverty

Landlords, housing careers and being ‘heard’ locally

Conclusion

3 Energy justice in sustainability transitions research

Introduction

Sustainability transitions theory

Integrating energy justice in sustainability transitions research

4 Energy justice and the low-carbon transition: assessing low-carbon community programmes in the UK

Introduction

Conceptualizing energy justice in the context of climate change

Table 4.1 Multiple dimensions of justice

Energy justice and low-carbon communities

The emergence of low-carbon communities in the UK

Assessing the justice dimensions of low-carbon community programmes

Table 4.2 Selected UK low-carbon community programmes

Table 4.3 Definition of community in low-carbon community programmes

Conclusions

5 Energy justice and climate change: reflections from a Joseph Rowntree Foundation research programme

Introduction

Distributional justice issues

Procedural justice issues

Conclusion

6 Equity across borders: a whole-systems approach to micro-generation

Introduction

6.1 Fuel mix for the UK

Whole-systems analysis

Equity in the context of micro-generation

Methodology development

6.2 Schematic representation of the whole-systems approach and cross-cutting themes

Table 6.1 Output from the SWOT analysis

6.3 Equity assessment framework

Using the equity framework to evaluate the equity aspects of the UK case studies

Table 6.2 Case study detail

International case studies – Greece

6.4 Fuel mix for Greece

Table 6.3 Summary of Greek case studies

International case study – Japan

6.5 Fuel mix for Japan

Table 6.4 Summary of Japanese case study

Concluding comments

7 Fair distribution of power-generating capacity: justice, micro-grids and utilizing the common pool of renewable energy

Introduction

Starting point: institutions

The significance of smart microgrids for distributed generation

7.1 ‘A network of integrated microgrids that can monitor and heal itself’

Smart grid innovation

Acceptance of institutional change for energy innovation

7.2 Three dimensions of social acceptance of renewable energy innovations

The community and collective action perspective

Justice as fairness

DisGenMiGrids for all?

Renewable energy: a Common Pool natural resource

Future developments

8 Framing energy justice in the UK: the nuclear case

Introduction

Nuclear energy, ethics and justice: concepts, applications and developments

Framing ‘energy justice’ in the nuclear context: exploring the UK case

Concluding discussion

9 Justice in energy system transitions: the case of carbon capture and storage

Introduction

Energy justice, participation and instrumentalism

Low-carbon energy systems and embedding principles of procedural justice

Table 9.1 Principles of procedural justice

Applying the WSP framework: justice and CCS

9.1 Potential impacts across the CCS development chain

Conclusions

Acknowledgements

About the contributors

Notes

Bibliography

Introduction

1 Day and Walker

2 Bouzarovski et al.

3 Eames and Hunt

4 Fuller and Bulkeley

5 Knox

6 Adams et al.

7 Wolsink

8 Butler and Simmons

9 McLaren et al.

Index