Just Transitions: Social Justice in the Shift Towards a Low-Carbon World
by Edouard Morena, Dunja Krause and Dimitris Stevis
Pluto Press, 2019 Cloth: 978-0-7453-3994-8
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
In the field of 'climate change', no terrain goes uncontested. The terminological tug of war between activists and corporations, scientists and governments, has seen radical notions of 'sustainability' emptied of urgency and subordinated to the interests of capital. 'Just Transition' is the latest such battleground, and the conceptual keystone of the post-COP21 climate policy world. But what does it really mean?
Just Transition 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. Just Transitions draws 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. As the concept is entering the mainstream, has it lost its radical edge, and if so, can it be recovered?
Written by academics and activists from around the globe, this unique edited collection is the first book entirely devoted to Just Transition.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Edouard Morena is a Lecturer in French and European Politics at the University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP). Co-coordinator of the Just Transition Research Collaborative (JTRC), his research focuses on social and justice issues in the international climate regime through the study of different non-state actors' involvement in the UNFCCC.
REVIEWS
'Just Transitions gets the politics, economics, and the morality right - this book shows us the way!' Joseph B. Uehlein, Founding President of the Labor Network for Sustainability
'Just Transitions gets the politics, economics, and the morality right - this book shows us the way!' Joseph B. Uehlein, Founding President of the Labor Network for Sustainability
'This brilliant book demonstrates how the concept of a 'just transition' has become a battlefield. It should be at the heart of a powerful narrative strengthening justice and sustainability; instead it is appropriated by powerful forces blocking the revolutionary change that the climate crisis requires. Readers will be forced to choose sides' Jacklyn Cock, author of 'The War Against Ourselves Nature, Power and Justice'
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction Part I: Liberal Environmentalist Approach 1. The Silent Takeover? The Business Case For a Just Transition - Nicole Helmerich 2. A Management Prerogative: Embracing, Reconceptualising or Ignoring a Just Transition in Australia - Caleb Goods Part II: Social Reformist Approach 3. 'No Jobs on a Dead Planet': The International Trade Union Movement's Promotion of Just Transition - Anabella Rosemberg 4. South Africa and the Just Transition: From the MEC to a Socially-Owned Renewable Energy Sector? - Sandra van Niekerk 5. A Top-Down Transition: A Critical Account of Canada's Government-Led Phase-Out of the Coal Sector - Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood and Ian Hussey 6. 'Powering Past Coal?' Spanish Unions and the Just Transition - Laura Martin Murillo 7. Just Transition Solutions and Challenges in a Neoliberal and Carbon-Intensive Economy - Darryn Snell 8. Learning the Lessons from the German Energiewende - Sabrina Schulz Part III: Grassroots Systems Change Approach 9. Local Action Driven by Systemic Thinking: Cooperation Jackson and its Just Transition Plan - Kali Akuno 10. Progressive Philanthropy's Role in the Just Transition Debate - Cuong Hoang Conclusion - Romain Felli and Dimitris Stevis
Just Transitions: Social Justice in the Shift Towards a Low-Carbon World
by Edouard Morena, Dunja Krause and Dimitris Stevis
Pluto Press, 2019 Cloth: 978-0-7453-3994-8
In the field of 'climate change', no terrain goes uncontested. The terminological tug of war between activists and corporations, scientists and governments, has seen radical notions of 'sustainability' emptied of urgency and subordinated to the interests of capital. 'Just Transition' is the latest such battleground, and the conceptual keystone of the post-COP21 climate policy world. But what does it really mean?
Just Transition 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. Just Transitions draws 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. As the concept is entering the mainstream, has it lost its radical edge, and if so, can it be recovered?
Written by academics and activists from around the globe, this unique edited collection is the first book entirely devoted to Just Transition.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Edouard Morena is a Lecturer in French and European Politics at the University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP). Co-coordinator of the Just Transition Research Collaborative (JTRC), his research focuses on social and justice issues in the international climate regime through the study of different non-state actors' involvement in the UNFCCC.
REVIEWS
'Just Transitions gets the politics, economics, and the morality right - this book shows us the way!' Joseph B. Uehlein, Founding President of the Labor Network for Sustainability
'Just Transitions gets the politics, economics, and the morality right - this book shows us the way!' Joseph B. Uehlein, Founding President of the Labor Network for Sustainability
'This brilliant book demonstrates how the concept of a 'just transition' has become a battlefield. It should be at the heart of a powerful narrative strengthening justice and sustainability; instead it is appropriated by powerful forces blocking the revolutionary change that the climate crisis requires. Readers will be forced to choose sides' Jacklyn Cock, author of 'The War Against Ourselves Nature, Power and Justice'
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction Part I: Liberal Environmentalist Approach 1. The Silent Takeover? The Business Case For a Just Transition - Nicole Helmerich 2. A Management Prerogative: Embracing, Reconceptualising or Ignoring a Just Transition in Australia - Caleb Goods Part II: Social Reformist Approach 3. 'No Jobs on a Dead Planet': The International Trade Union Movement's Promotion of Just Transition - Anabella Rosemberg 4. South Africa and the Just Transition: From the MEC to a Socially-Owned Renewable Energy Sector? - Sandra van Niekerk 5. A Top-Down Transition: A Critical Account of Canada's Government-Led Phase-Out of the Coal Sector - Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood and Ian Hussey 6. 'Powering Past Coal?' Spanish Unions and the Just Transition - Laura Martin Murillo 7. Just Transition Solutions and Challenges in a Neoliberal and Carbon-Intensive Economy - Darryn Snell 8. Learning the Lessons from the German Energiewende - Sabrina Schulz Part III: Grassroots Systems Change Approach 9. Local Action Driven by Systemic Thinking: Cooperation Jackson and its Just Transition Plan - Kali Akuno 10. Progressive Philanthropy's Role in the Just Transition Debate - Cuong Hoang Conclusion - Romain Felli and Dimitris Stevis
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC