Making the Ethical and Philosophical Case for “Energy Justice”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11265348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin R Jones, B K Sovacool (0000-0002-4794-9403, Aarhus University), Roman V Sidortsov, Roman Sidortsov (0000-0001-6886-0267) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 145-168 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-4275 • E-ISSN: 2153-7895 |
| Publisher | Philosophy Documentation Center (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5840/enviroethics201537215 |
| OpenAlex | W1835469195 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 39 |
A new conceptual framework, “energy justice,” provides a more comprehensive and, potentially, better way to assess and resolve energy-related dilemmas. This new framework of energy justice builds on four fundamental assumptions and consists of two key principles: a prohibitive principle which states that “energy systems must be designed and constructed in such a way that they do not unduly interfere with the ability of people to acquire those basic goods to which they are justly entitled,” and an affirmative principle which states that “if any of the basic goods to which people are justly entitled can only be secured by means of energy services, then in that case there is also a derivative entitlement to the energy services.” These two principles are premised on the notion that energy serves as a material prerequisite for many of the basic goods to which people are entitled. They also recognize that the externalities associated with energy systems often interfere with the enjoyment of such fundamental goods as security and welfare. They acknowledge that the structuring of energy systems has profound ramifications for human societies, providing historically unprecedented benefits for some, and taking from others the possibility of living a life of basic human dignity
Dignity · Economic Justice · Economics · Epistemology · Goods and services · Law and economics · Microeconomics · Political science · Sociology · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · Law · Philosophy
Estrategias de vida ante la pobreza energética de mujeres en una localidad de Argentina
Energy justice in the transition to low carbon energy systems
Energy justice at the end of the wire
Energy justice for all? Rethinking Sustainable Development Goal 7 through struggles over traditional energy practices in Sierra Leone
Energy decisions reframed as justice and ethical concerns
Decarbonization and its discontents
Toward an Ubuntu Framework of Distributive Energy Justice
Beyond watts and wheels
In Whose Backyard? The Wicked Problem of Siting Nuclear Waste Repositories
What does it mean to make a moral claim? A Wittgensteinian approach to energy justice
Electrification and lower-income households in Australia
An Ecohealth approach to energy justice
A just energy transition for Indigenous peoples
Social justice, fairness and exclusion in the South Korean electricity sector
Let capabilities ring
Energy transitions from the cradle to the grave
Conceptualizing resilience
Problematising energy justice
Making energy justice work for women in rural sub-Saharan Africa
Moral foundations of energy transitions in the United States
When justice narratives meet energy system models
Excluded despite their support - The perspectives of energy-poor households on their participation in the German energy transition narrative
Unpacking energy (in)justice in Indonesia's waste-to-energy initiatives
Energy justice in innovative living spaces
Headlining justice from coalfields to clean futures
Assessing the social and environmental impacts of the just energy transition in Komati, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
Barriers to powering past coal
Civil society, environmental litigation, and Confucian energy justice
Energy poor need more energy, but do they need more carbon? Evaluation of people's basic carbon needs
Power and Prejudice
Integrating energy justice principles in waste-to-energy conversion
Energy and the Good Life
A Missing Link? Capabilities, the Ethics of Care and the Relational Context of Energy Justice
Decommodified energy
Participation as a pathway to procedural justice
Energy solution or future pollution? Applying an energy justice perspective to coal seam gas in New South Wales
Where the power lies
Conceptualizing energy democracy
When Decarbonization Reinforces Colonization
| Unique citing works | 39 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,9 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 38 |