Overview
- Focus on the impact of policies on energy justice
- Demonstrates how energy justice theory works in practice by highlighting the new ‘social contract’
- Includes contributions from leading scholars in the field of energy justice
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.
Part of the book series: Just Transitions (JT)
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About this book
This open access book focuses on the energy sector and will make a significant contribution to its continued evolution. For many years, the energy sector has been missing a raison d’etre and now finally there are increased calls for that to be justice. Hence, this book will develop the concept of energy justice and how it needs to be formalised in a new ‘social contract’ with all stakeholders in society. The focus will be on improving legal systems at local, national and international levels while ensuring that justice is a core issue within energy law, the legal system and more broadly in society.
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Energy Justice for Local Communities
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Energy Justice National & International Perspectives
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Front Matter
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Energy Life-Cycle Activities and Justice
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Front Matter
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Conclusion
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Raphael Heffron is Professor in Energy Justice and the Social Contract at the Universite de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, TREE, Pau, France. He is also Jean Monnet Professor in the Just Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy awarded by the European Commission (2019-2022). In 2020, he was appointed as Senior Counsel at Janson law firm in Brussels (Belgium). Professor Heffron is a qualified Barrister-at-Law, and a graduate of both Oxford (MSc) and Cambridge (MPhil & PhD). His work all has a principal focus on achieving a sustainable and just transition to a low-carbon economy, and combines a mix of law, policy and economics. He has published over 200 publications of different types and is the most cited scholar in his field worldwide for energy law, energy justice and just transition.
Louis de Fontenelle is Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour, Pau, France. He is member of theresearch centre TREE (University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, CNRS, France). His research focuses on issues of law and justice relating to the ecological transition in the context of climate change, in particular energy, sustainable mobility and natural resources. His work is interdisciplinary, involving geography, economics and philosophy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Power of Energy Justice & the Social Contract
Editors: Raphael J. Heffron, Louis de Fontenelle
Series Title: Just Transitions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46282-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46281-8Published: 02 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-46282-5Published: 01 December 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-6041
Series E-ISSN: 2731-605X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 265
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Human Geography