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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Energy Justice"”.
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Towards a holistic integration of energy justice and energy system engineering
… from fossil fuel infrastructure to clean energy infrastructure. This transition must also be done equitably and justly to prevent entrenching further injustices to marginalized and vulnerable communities. Current energy planning tools optimize for a singular cost objective which challenges …
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Watching the wind blow by: a theoretical framework for improving energy justice in the UK.
… development is creating growing numbers of injustice. Increasing competition between economic growth and ecological protection twinned with unclear legislative definitions with regards to the UKs offshore wind industry are producing obstacles for planners in successfully applying for planning …
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Just Biofuels? Mapping dimensions of energy justice in relation to an international liquid biofuel supply chain
… morally right to identify and address matters of energy justice associated with renewable energy technologies - and thus biofuels. Equity appraisals, as defined in this thesis, can help to identify social and environmental burdens caused by the implementation of these technologies and where they …
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Energy Justice from the Bottom Up: A Capability Approach to Community Acceptance of Wind Energy in Southern Mexico
Adopting ambitious renewable energy targets has profound social, economic, and environmental implications, at local and global scales. Indeed, these targets have raised deep questions about social justice in capitalist societies attempting to pursue clean energy transitions. To understand how these …
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Actually Existing Democracy and Energy Justice: The Case of the Coalfields Delegation to the United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development
… research examines the differential impacts of energy extraction on local communities, and what the term justice might usefully mean in the context of transnational energy politics. I provide an account of justice that engages with the theories of Nancy Fraser and Pierre Bourdieu and mines their …
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Contextualising energy justice in low-income built environment: Towards data-driven policy interventions for addressing distributive injustices in slum rehabilitation housing of the Global South
… the effect of slum rehabilitation on household energy demand in Brazil, India and Nigeria through the lens of distributive energy justice. Furthermore, this thesis makes methodological innovation to aid in just policy design by improving the objectivity of including local and contextual …
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Enabling the Just Energy Transition in South Africa
… juncture for the country's heretofore separate energy decarbonisation and developmental agendas. However, despite the win-win framing of the South African just energy transition, evidence suggests that it may do little to mitigate socio-economic and environmental inequality, necessitating new …
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Decarbonizing Austin : strategies to increase equity in solar adoption
The clean energy transition is underway in most U.S. cities and solar energy plays a significant role in it. Rooftop solar is a viable way for many homeowners to not only participate in the transition away from fossil fuels, but also reap many other benefits that clean energy can offer, including …
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The Energy Trilemma: Conceptual Development and Practical Implementation into Energy Policy
The Energy Trilemma is a new figure that establishes that energy policy is based on three pillars: energy security, sustainable development and energy equity. This thesis presents a historical and conceptual development of the figure of the trilemma and of each one of the pillars. Under the …
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Evolving Paradigms in State-Level Integrated Resource Planning
As global energy systems electrify, long-term planning processes are evolving to allow flexible economic analysis and acknowledge rapid financial and operational transformation. State-level integrated resource planning (IRP) processes allow oversight of long-term electric utility resource planning. …
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The Challenges and Opportunities to Achieving Equitable Residential Building Electrification in Chicago
… its decarbonization goals, and 2) the use of an energy justice framework. I pursue my research question through a mixed-method approach of stakeholder interviews, mapping, and statistical analysis. Stakeholder interviews paint the picture of a politically challenging landscape with a few key …
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Evaluation of a socially oriented intermediary organisation that supports low-to-middle-income communities in developing energy communities in South Africa and Colombia
Energy communities are groups of citizens that actively participate in the electricity sector, usually with community-owned renewable energy generation. These models have been widely studied and implemented in developed economies. Experts conclude that they have the potential to promote just energy …
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Perspectives on Power: Characterizing Public Perceptions Towards Large-Scale Renewable Energy Development in the United States
With rapid growth in renewable energy development expected in the coming decades, it is crucial to ensure the clean energy transition does not perpetuate past injustices in infrastructure siting. In this thesis, I first contextualize historical renewable energy siting policies and patterns in the …
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Just Transition: Lessons from Mexico
In 2013, Mexico undertook a series of national energy reforms that promoted largescale, privately-funded renewable energy development. The stated goals of the reforms were to fill investment gaps in the public energy sector and to help meet CO2 reduction targets. Human rights and environmental …
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Participatory Design For Community Energy - Designing the Renewable Energy Commons
The energy sector is facing a major paradigm shift from centralised production and management to distributed energy generation and management. Digital technologies play a crucial role in enabling such scenario; emphasis and attention has been given to Smart Grids and new energy management systems …
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Decarbonization at the Neighborhood Scale: Challenges, Learnings and Opportunities in an Emerging Model
… goals and has significant public health and energy justice benefits if accessible to all. To date, building electrification has been individual-level and market-driven, with some financial incentives at the state and federal level. This model is generally inaccessible to low-income homeowners …
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Integrating Social Concerns Into Regional Renewable Energy Resource Assessments: A Case Study in Rigolet, NL, Canada
… to integrating social concerns regarding energy development into renewable energy resource assessment. An extensive literature review of the social aspects of energy identifies five perspectives (acceptability, social license, energy justice, community energy, Indigenous criticism) that …
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Role players in the South African mining industry's perceptions of their contribution to the country's energy transition agenda
… their respective roles to understand the energy transition agenda of South Africa, considering the challenges of energy security, energy justice, and the socio-economic dichotomies between different actors over the institution, regime, and technology deployment, and the impact on the …
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