Darren Mccauley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1577845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Darren Mccauley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Darren |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccauley |
| SIGNATURE | MCCAULEY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3951-1129 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 277 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
An energy justice critique of small modular reactors in emerging nuclear transitions
The rise of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) presents a complex reflection point of technological promise and societal responsibility. There is increasing need to move beyond purely technical assessments of a future expanded deployment of SMRs. By incorporating frameworks of energy justice, we can better recognise that historical injustices and systemic inequalities intensify by inadequately planned nuclear transitions to modularity. Community engag…
The Future of Just Transitions
International audience
Embed systemic equity throughout industrial ecology applications
Recent calls have been made for equity tools and frameworks to be integrated throughout the research and design life cycle —from conception to implementation—with an emphasis on reducing inequity in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications. Simply stating that equity should be integrated throughout, however, leaves much to be desired as industrial ecology (IE) researchers, practitioners, and decision‐makers attempt to e…
Sustainability justice
There is a growing importance of understanding the connection between sustainability and justice. We have conducted the first robust mixed-methods review of the burgeoning academic literature on sustainability justice. Our analysis spans literature from 2013 to 2023, drawn from the databases of Web of Science and Scopus. We use a scientometric approach to identify key literature for a more detailed qualitative analysis. This dual approach uncover…
Assessing the post-Covid prospects for the energy transition in the Netherlands and the UK, using a policy barriers approach
Before the COVID crisis, the Netherlands and the UK were embarking on national energy transitions away from fossil fuel systems. However, the arrival of the pandemic unequivocally altered the trajectory of energy transitions on a global scale. Every country in the world is now grappling with the twin challenges of the COVID crisis and the climate crisis, and there is a grave risk that the short-term demands of the former could eclipse the vital l…
A critical review of energy democracy
Which states will lead a just transition for the Arctic? A DeePeR analysis of global data on Arctic states and formal observer states
A fair and equitable low carbon future depends on a just transition which, in turn, requires leadership. Where the Arctic is concerned, this leadership is currently lacking. To gauge which states are most likely to provide leadership in the global energy transition, a quantitative rank-percentile assessment of 21 Arctic Council members and Observer states was conducted, using measures relevant to the just transition. Data from multiple open-acces…
Leaders and laggards in the pursuit of an EU just transition
The just transition from coal, oil, and gas to renewable energy sources involves commitment from all EU states. But who is leading, or lagging? We apply an innovative DeePeR framework to identify these states, using open-access quantitative global data from multiple sources, by evaluating the energy and equity dimensions of Distributive, Procedural and Restorative justice. Using rank percentile scores, we assessed EU nations' level of fossil fuel…
An Ecohealth approach to energy justice
Towards energy care ethics
The methodologies, geographies, and technologies of energy justice
The energy justice literature has seen a rapid surge in both academic and practical popularity. However, there has been less systematic reflection on the research conducted so far, its scope or contribution, nor what it might mean for the future of the concept. To provide insights, this paper presents the results of a systematic and comprehensive review of 155 peer-reviewed articles published across eight databases between January 2008 and Decemb…
Energy justice in the transition to low carbon energy systems
With the dual challenges of reducing emissions from fossil fuels and providing access to clean and affordable energy, there is an imperative for a transition to a low carbon energy system. The transition must take into consideration questions of energy justice to ensure that policies, plans and programmes guarantee fair and equitable access to resources and technologies. An energy justice framework is outlined to account for distributional, proce…
Humanizing sociotechnical transitions through energy justice
Poverty, climate change and energy security demand awareness about the interlinkages between energy systems and social justice. Amidst these challenges, energy justice has emerged to conceptualize a world where all individuals, across all areas, have safe, affordable and sustainable energy that is, essentially, socially just. Simultaneously, new social and technological solutions to energy problems continually evolve, and interest in the concept …
Reframing decommissioning as energy infrastructural investment
The concept of energy justice across the disciplines
Energy justice
What is the ‘Just Transition’
Energy decisions reframed as justice and ethical concerns
When making decisions about energy, consumers and policymakers typically overlook moral issues, which can have profound societal consequences. This Perspective explores how ideas from justice and ethics can provide a framework to reconsider energy problems and better inform decision-making processes.
Energy justice
Energy justice in the Arctic
Resolving society's energy trilemma through the Energy Justice Metric
Carbon dioxide emissions continue to increase to the detriment of society in many forms. One of the difficulties faced is the imbalance between the competing aims of economics, politics and the environment which form the trilemma of energy policy. This article advances that this energy trilemma can be resolved through energy justice . Energy justice develops the debate on energy policy to one that highlights cosmopolitanism , progresses thinking …
Framing energy justice
Sustainable Development in Energy Policy
The inclusion of environmental interest groups in policy‐making is said to provide greater legitimacy (Bernauer and Gampfer, 2013), accountability (Feldman and Blokov, 2009), new policy preferences (Bunea, 2013) and, ultimately, pro‐environmental outcomes (Bohmelt and Betzold, 2013). This paper focuses on the development of inclusive governance structures and processes (with regard to environmental interests) in waste‐to‐energy policy designed to…
Achieving sustainable supply chains through energy justice
Rethinking the scope and necessity of energy subsidies in the United Kingdom
What is the ‘Just Transition’
Framing energy justice
Bottom-Up Europeanization Exposed
The current underdevelopment of bottom-up conceptual designs provides an opportunity to expose Europeanization research to mainstream political and social science tools (Exadaktylos and Radaelli, 2009). A research design based upon SMT (Social Movement Theory) is located within three variants of bottom-up Europeanization approaches currently found in the literature. It is used to analyse the empirical validity of the Europeanization of non-state …
Leaders and laggards in the pursuit of an EU just transition
The just transition from coal, oil, and gas to renewable energy sources involves commitment from all EU states. But who is leading, or lagging? We apply an innovative DeePeR framework to identify these states, using open-access quantitative global data from multiple sources, by evaluating the energy and equity dimensions of Distributive, Procedural and Restorative justice. Using rank percentile scores, we assessed EU nations' level of fossil fuel…
Energy justice in the Arctic
Towards energy care ethics
Environmental Mobilization and Resource-Opportunity Usage
Which states will lead a just transition for the Arctic? A DeePeR analysis of global data on Arctic states and formal observer states
A fair and equitable low carbon future depends on a just transition which, in turn, requires leadership. Where the Arctic is concerned, this leadership is currently lacking. To gauge which states are most likely to provide leadership in the global energy transition, a quantitative rank-percentile assessment of 21 Arctic Council members and Observer states was conducted, using measures relevant to the just transition. Data from multiple open-acces…
Sustainable Development in Energy Policy
The inclusion of environmental interest groups in policy‐making is said to provide greater legitimacy (Bernauer and Gampfer, 2013), accountability (Feldman and Blokov, 2009), new policy preferences (Bunea, 2013) and, ultimately, pro‐environmental outcomes (Bohmelt and Betzold, 2013). This paper focuses on the development of inclusive governance structures and processes (with regard to environmental interests) in waste‐to‐energy policy designed to…
Wasting energy? Campaigns against waste-to-energy sites in France
The proliferation of waste incinerators in France has stimulated widespread policy conflict and social mobilisation. French government has struggled to follow a coherent waste management strategy. Its initial preference for landfills as a waste disposal solution was replaced by waste incineration. This sparked a nationwide programme of construction in both urban and rural areas. Recent technological advances in waste-to-energy have further cement…
Rethinking the scope and necessity of energy subsidies in the United Kingdom
Reframing decommissioning as energy infrastructural investment
An Ecohealth approach to energy justice
Social Movements and Europeanization
By Donatella della Porta and Manuela Caiani Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009, 215 pp., £40.00, ISBN 978-0-19-955778-3 (hbk) Donatella della Porta and Manuale Caiani have written an interesting
Environmental Mobilization and Resource-Opportunity Usage
Wasting energy? Campaigns against waste-to-energy sites in France
The proliferation of waste incinerators in France has stimulated widespread policy conflict and social mobilisation. French government has struggled to follow a coherent waste management strategy. Its initial preference for landfills as a waste disposal solution was replaced by waste incineration. This sparked a nationwide programme of construction in both urban and rural areas. Recent technological advances in waste-to-energy have further cement…
The Europeanisation of Domestic Opportunities for Movements
Europeanisation research into social movements has focused on the emergence of political opportunity structures at the supranational level. This paper examines how movement actors are exploiting shifts in domestic opportunity structures caused by EU policy. Empirical evidence is drawn from qualitative interview data and document analysis on high profile anti-incinerator campaigns in France. Surprisingly, European legislation on waste incineration…
Social Movements and Europeanization
By Donatella della Porta and Manuela Caiani Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009, 215 pp., £40.00, ISBN 978-0-19-955778-3 (hbk) Donatella della Porta and Manuale Caiani have written an interesting
Bottom-Up Europeanization Exposed
The current underdevelopment of bottom-up conceptual designs provides an opportunity to expose Europeanization research to mainstream political and social science tools (Exadaktylos and Radaelli, 2009). A research design based upon SMT (Social Movement Theory) is located within three variants of bottom-up Europeanization approaches currently found in the literature. It is used to analyse the empirical validity of the Europeanization of non-state …
Achieving sustainable supply chains through energy justice
Rethinking the scope and necessity of energy subsidies in the United Kingdom
Energy justice in a changing climate
I thoroughly recommend this book as a valiant, inspirational, and pioneering attempt to bring together research in energy and justice. One could fall into the trap of claiming expert timeliness in
Resolving society's energy trilemma through the Energy Justice Metric
Carbon dioxide emissions continue to increase to the detriment of society in many forms. One of the difficulties faced is the imbalance between the competing aims of economics, politics and the environment which form the trilemma of energy policy. This article advances that this energy trilemma can be resolved through energy justice . Energy justice develops the debate on energy policy to one that highlights cosmopolitanism , progresses thinking …
Framing energy justice
Sustainable Development in Energy Policy
The inclusion of environmental interest groups in policy‐making is said to provide greater legitimacy (Bernauer and Gampfer, 2013), accountability (Feldman and Blokov, 2009), new policy preferences (Bunea, 2013) and, ultimately, pro‐environmental outcomes (Bohmelt and Betzold, 2013). This paper focuses on the development of inclusive governance structures and processes (with regard to environmental interests) in waste‐to‐energy policy designed to…
Energy decisions reframed as justice and ethical concerns
When making decisions about energy, consumers and policymakers typically overlook moral issues, which can have profound societal consequences. This Perspective explores how ideas from justice and ethics can provide a framework to reconsider energy problems and better inform decision-making processes.
Energy justice
Energy justice in the Arctic
The concept of energy justice across the disciplines
Energy justice
What is the ‘Just Transition’
Humanizing sociotechnical transitions through energy justice
Poverty, climate change and energy security demand awareness about the interlinkages between energy systems and social justice. Amidst these challenges, energy justice has emerged to conceptualize a world where all individuals, across all areas, have safe, affordable and sustainable energy that is, essentially, socially just. Simultaneously, new social and technological solutions to energy problems continually evolve, and interest in the concept …
Reframing decommissioning as energy infrastructural investment
Energy justice in the transition to low carbon energy systems
With the dual challenges of reducing emissions from fossil fuels and providing access to clean and affordable energy, there is an imperative for a transition to a low carbon energy system. The transition must take into consideration questions of energy justice to ensure that policies, plans and programmes guarantee fair and equitable access to resources and technologies. An energy justice framework is outlined to account for distributional, proce…
The methodologies, geographies, and technologies of energy justice
The energy justice literature has seen a rapid surge in both academic and practical popularity. However, there has been less systematic reflection on the research conducted so far, its scope or contribution, nor what it might mean for the future of the concept. To provide insights, this paper presents the results of a systematic and comprehensive review of 155 peer-reviewed articles published across eight databases between January 2008 and Decemb…
An Ecohealth approach to energy justice
Towards energy care ethics
Assessing the post-Covid prospects for the energy transition in the Netherlands and the UK, using a policy barriers approach
Before the COVID crisis, the Netherlands and the UK were embarking on national energy transitions away from fossil fuel systems. However, the arrival of the pandemic unequivocally altered the trajectory of energy transitions on a global scale. Every country in the world is now grappling with the twin challenges of the COVID crisis and the climate crisis, and there is a grave risk that the short-term demands of the former could eclipse the vital l…
A critical review of energy democracy
Political science (25 works) · Engineering (20 works) · Economics (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Economic Justice (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (16 works) · Energy and Environment Impacts (12 works) · Business (10 works) · Law (10 works)