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"Concepts from justice and ethics can significantly inform energy decision-makers. Benjamin K. Sovacool introduces readers to the injustices and insecurities inherent in the global energy system before presenting an energy justice conceptual framework consisting of availability, affordability, due process, good governance, prudence, intergenerational equity, intragenerational equity, and responsibility. He showcases the application of these principles to eight real-world case studies involving national energy planning in Denmark, the Warm Front program in the United Kingdom, the World Bank's Inspection Panel, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, São Thomé e Príncipe's Natural Resource Fund, solar energy in Bangladesh, climate change adaptation efforts in least developed countries, and the Yasuni-ITT Initiative in Ecuador"--

This article reports on a causal link from urban poverty, through tenure insecurity and poor-quality housing, to energy injustices for slum dwellers. Impacts of those injustices on residents' well-being are identified. The prevalent physical manifestation of rapid urbanisation and urban poverty in the Global South is the incidence of slums. This article engages with the academic debate on 'energy justice', a relatively nascent field. This article takes a more fine-grained view of energy justice than most previous scholarship, examining the energy experience at a household scale in a specific setting of urban poverty. The contention of this article is that energy injustices prevail in informal settlements not only due to issues of governance and poverty, but also, to a significant degree, as a result of the urban poor being deprived of secure tenure and decent housing. Further, these injustices impact on people's well-being. The latter point is explored though a capability analysis in a case-study slum in Dhaka. The case-study slum, Kallyanpur Pora Bostee, is a squatter settlement on government land in Dhaka.

Chapter 1. Climate Ethics and International Energy Justice -- Chapter 2. Public Participation and Intra-actions in the Swedish Energy Transition -- Chapter 3. Failure to Act or Impossible Task? The Pursuit of Climate Justice and Energy Security through Litigation -- Chapter 4. Perceptions and Awareness of Climate Change on Environmental Stewardship -- Chapter 5. Short-sighted Visual Character Concerns in Renewable Energy Landscapes: A Case Study of South Australia -- Chapter 6. Turkey and Sustainable Development Goals: A Nexus Approach to Clean Energy and Climate Action -- Chapter 7. To Grow or not to Grow: Evolution of the Economic Paradigm as a Response to Climate Disruption -- Chapter 8. Sustainable Energy Policies and Programs in Yakutia -- Chapter 9. Diaspora and Renewable Energy in Manubhai Madhvani's Autobiography Tide of Fortune -- Chapter 10. Conclusion.

This paper discusses whether the concepts of energy democracy, energy justice and the principles of good market regulation could play a role in developing a more consistent approach towards the regulation of the energy sector. It is concluded that the principles of good regulation can provide a useful framework within which advantages and disadvantages can be weighed of regulatory choices to be made when modernizing the regulation of the energy markets. A case study of the Dutch heat market is used as an example, showing that a lot remains to be gained in terms of flexible regulation and supervision and the facilitation of citizen participation. Both energy democracy and energy justice call for this. The lack of flexibility in the current regulatory framework could lead to ineffective and disproportionate regulation, hindering a sustainable, reliable and affordable development of the heat market. A larger need for flexibility is justified because of the differences between the types of heat networks. Customized solutions regarding unbundling and third-party access, including the modernization of the heat market, also require sufficient discretionary powers for the independent regulator that do not hinder but in fact stimulate the development of the heat market. Furthermore, increased citizen-participation is important in light of energy justice and energy democracy, which are energy specific concepts that overarch the principles of good regulation in the energy sector. Both concepts are based on the awareness that the energy transition is a matter for all citizens of the European Union and should not be ignored by policymakers and independent regulators. Since it is likely that most heat consumers will remain locked in for a relatively long time in natural monopolies facilitated by older generation heat networks and a lack of alternatives, substantive citizen-participation could yield positive results regarding community engagement in heat network management and heat supply

Étudier les racines de l'obligation d'équité en matière d'énergie nous ramène obligatoirement aux racines historiques de la Chine, tout en tenant compte du fait qu'à l'origine c'est plutôt les « ressources naturelles » qui tenaient la place que tient l'énergie de nos jours. Tous les régimes autoritaires historiques en Chine ont insisté sur leur obligation d'assurer l'équité énergétique. L'accession de Mao Tsé-toung au pouvoir a clairement été dans la continuité de cette pensée politique. Bien que l'état actuel du pouvoir chinois ne puisse que conduire à le qualifier de façon absolue comme « état autoritaire », le rôle de cet état autoritaire devient plus flou. Trois facteurs y contribuent : la corruption, qui, comme il est de plus en plus mis en évidence dans le domaine pétrolier, a contribué à éloigner les préoccupations d'équité, l'obsession du maintien de prix pétroliers bas dans tout le pays a contribué à créer des inégalités géographiques tandis que celle de la centralisation a conduit à des choix inefficaces en matière de distribution de l'énergie, créant des inégalités territoriales. La forme « en étoile » de la grille de distribution de l'électricité rend difficile de satisfaire de façon identique les besoins de toutes les populations, en particulier celles de l'Ouest, les plus éloignées des sources de génération d'électricité. En fin de compte, les externalités négatives peuvent être expliquées par une interprétation fautive du concept d'équité. Il existe un potentiel d'amélioration à travers la lutte anti-corruption et l'implication de la Chine dans les débats sur le climat.

Despite the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, a growing number of countries are interested in expanding or introducing nuclear energy. However, nuclear energy production and nuclear waste disposal give rise to pressing ethical questions that society needs to face. This book takes up this challenge with essays by an international team of scholars focusing on the key issues of risk, justice, and democracy. The essays consider a range of ethical issues, including radiological protection, the influence of gender in the acceptability of nuclear risk, and environmental, international, and intergenerational justice in the context of nuclear energy. They also address the question of when, and under which conditions, nuclear energy should play a role in the world's future supply of electricity, looking at both developing and industrialized countries. The book will interest readers in ethics and political philosophy, social and political sciences, nuclear engineering, and policy studies

Energy justice has emerged over the last decade as a matter of vital concern in energy law, which can be seen in the attention directed to energy poverty, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. There are energy justice concerns in areas of law as diverse as human rights, consumer protection, international law and trade, and in many forms of regional and national energy law and regulation. This edited collection explores in detail at four kinds of energy justice. The first, distributive justice, relates to the equitable distribution of the benefits and burdens of energy activities, which is challenged by the existence of people suffering from energy poverty. Secondly, procedural (or participation) justice consists of the right of all communities to participate in decision-making regarding energy projects and policies that affect them. This dimension of energy justice often includes procedural rights to information and access to courts. Under the concept of reparation (or restorative) justice, the book looks at even-handed enforcement of energy statutes and regulations, as well as access to remedies when legal rights are violated. Finally, the collection addresses social justice, with the recognition that energy injustice cannot be separated from other social ills, such as poverty and subordination based on race, gender, or indigeneity. These issues feed into a wider conversation about how we achieve a 'just' energy transition, as the world confronts the urgent challenges of climate change

The burgeoning energy justice scholarship highlights the importance of justice and equity concerns in the context of global decarbonization and the transition to a green economy. This paper seeks to extend current conceptualizations of energy justice across entire energy lifecycles, from extraction to final use, to offer an analytically richer and more accurate picture of the (in)justice impacts of energy policy decisions. We identify two key areas that require greater attention and scrutiny in order to enact energy justice within a more democratized energy system. First, we call for greater recognition of the politics, power dynamics and political economy of socio-technical energy transitions. We use the example of the fossil fuel divestment movement as a way to shift energy justice policy attention upstream to focus on the under-researched injustices relating to supply-side climate policy analysis and decisions. Second, the idea of a "just transition" and the distributional impacts on "and the role of" labor in low-carbon transitions must be addressed more systematically. This focus produces a more directly political and politicizing framing of energy (in)justice and a just energy transition.

Philosophy; Engineering ethics; Energy policy; Energy and state; Economic geography; Renewable energy resources; Sustainable development; Energy systems

Cover -- Half Title Page -- Series List -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- About the After Oil Collective -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Situating Solarity -- The Promise of Solarity -- Solar Materialisms -- Solarity as Solidarity -- Oppressive Solarities -- Decolonial and Feminist Solarities -- Solar Temporalities -- The Work of Solarity -- Storytelling and Worldmaking -- Fumbling toward Solarity -- Acknowledgments -- Further Reading -- About the Editors.

Abstract
Energy efficiency and energy security are emerging concerns in climate change policy. But. there is little acknowledgment of energy justice issues. Marginalised and vulnerable communities may be disproportionately exposed to both climate change impacts (e.g. heat, flooding) and costs associated with energy transitions related to climate change mitigation and adaptation (e.g. particulate exposure from biofuel combustion). Climate change is producing energy-related impacts such as increased cooling costs. In some cases it threatens energy security. Higher electricity costs associated with 'climate proofing' energy network infrastructure may exacerbate 'fuel poverty' - itself a form of injustice. In this paper we critically review the literature about multiple interrelations between energy policy, justice and climate change. We identify key issues, illuminate knowledge gaps, and synthesise findings to develop a conceptual model. We chart a research agenda and highlight policy implications.