期刊
ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
卷 88, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2022.102630
关键词
Spatial justice; Regional development; Low carbon transition; Responsibility; Capability; Decarbonisation
资金
- EPSRC Doctoral Training Programme Scholarship
- Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions [EP/R035288/1]
Spatial justice is an important consideration in the low carbon transition, as it involves the fair distribution of benefits and burdens associated with this transition. This study identifies a research gap in exploring the fairness implications beyond employment impacts. It also highlights the importance of public perceptions of justice in the acceptance of the low carbon transition. Policy challenges include administrative fragmentation and lack of coordination in net zero policy.
Spatial justice is a theoretical framework that is increasingly used to examine questions of equity in the low carbon transition (LCT) from a geographical perspective. We conducted a semi-systematic review to define a 'spatially just' low carbon transition, considering how spatial dimensions are explicitly or implicitly presented in assessments of the LCT, and the policy and governance approaches that could embed spatial justice. A sample of 75 academic articles was thematically coded. Spatial justice involves the fair distribution of both benefits and burdens associated with LCTs, and this often creates problems of equity given the geographic gap between regions that 'win and lose'. The studies point to a research gap in exploring fairness implications that go beyond the employment impacts of transition. Acceptance of the LCT is shown to be contingent on perceptions of justice, particularly whether the most responsible and capable actors are taking action. There is similar concern that the LCT may not address, or may reproduce, existing patterns of injustice. This is particularly the case in terms of spatially inequitable land uses and where historic planning policy has had lasting socioeconomic impacts. Policy challenges to making LCTs more spatially just included administrative fragmentation across spatial scales and the lack of coordination in net zero policy. We identify that future transition policymaking could benefit from using spatially targeted interventions, and in adopting a whole systems approach. In this recognition of the multiple economic vulnerabilities of different regions, LCT policymaking can become both more effective and, critically, more just.
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