Just transitions : social Justice in the Shift Towards a Low-Carbon World /
Social justice in the shift towards a low-carbon world
edited by Edouard Morena, Dunja Krause and Dimitris Stevis.
- xi, 228 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The genealogy and contemporary politics of just transitions / 'No jobs on a dead planet': the international trade union movement and just transition / Business in just transition: the never-ending story of corporate sustainability / Australian business: embracing, reconceptualising, or ignoring a just transition in Australia / Tales from the frontlines: building a people-led just transition in Jackson, Mississippi / What transition?: collectively imagining a just and low-carbon future for Rio Negro, Argentina / Resource rich and access poor: securing a just transition to renewables in South Africa / The story of coal in Germany: a model for just transition in Europe? / A top-down transition: a critical account of Canada's government-led phase-out of the coal sector / Just transition solutions and challenges in a neoliberal and carbon-intensive economy / Dimitris Stevis, Edouard Morena, Dunja Krause -- Anabella Rosemberg -- Nils Moussu -- Caleb Goods -- Kali Akuno -- Martín Álvarez Mullally, Fernando Cabrera Christiansen, Laura Maffei -- Sandra van Niekerk -- Alexander Reitzenstein, Sabrina Schulz, Felix Heilmann -- Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood, Ian Hussey -- Darryn Snell.
Provides a collection of essays drawing on a range of perspectives from the global North and South to interrogate the overlaps, synergies and tensions between various understandings of the Just Transition approach. This approach emerged as a framework developed within the trade union movement to encompass a range of social interventions needed to secure workers' and frontline communities' jobs and livelihoods as economies shift to sustainable production. It is the conceptual keystone of the post-COP21 climate policy world. --Adapted from publisher description.