Just Transitions
Promise and Contestation

This Element provides a historical and analytical examination of just transitions that places them within the political economy.

Dimitris Stevis (Author)

9781108947008, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 May 2023

75 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm, 0.155 kg

Just transition prompts us to explore a number of important dimensions of Earth System Governance research, including sustainability transformations, inequality, power and justice. This Element aims to place just transition in the dynamics of the world political economy over the last several decades and to offer an overview of the varieties of just transitions based on an analytical scheme that focuses on their breadth (coverage), depth (social and ecological priorities) and ambition. The focus on breadth, depth and ambition centers on power, inequality and injustice and allows us to analyze and compare just transitions as a prerequisite for their fuller interpretation.

Introduction
1. Just transition as a response to Neoliberalism in the USA: 1970s to 2001
2. The globalization of just transition: 2001-present
3. The breadth of just transitions
4. The depth of just transitions
5. The ambition of just transitions: a double take
Conclusions
References.

Subject Areas: International environmental law [LBBP]