Just Transitions - Promise and Contestation

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.

List of contents

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.

Summary

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, depth and ambition.

Foreword

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

Product details

• Authors: Dimitris Stevis, Dimitris (Colorado State University) Stevis, Stevis Dimitris
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9781108947008
• ISBN: 978-1-108-94700-8
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Earth System Governance
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Trade Unions, Political Economy, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmental policy and protocols, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / Unions