Three sides to every story
Gender perspectives in energy transition pathways in Canada, Kenya and Spain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13065705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jenny Lieu (0000-0002-9600-0501, ETH Zurich, corresponding author), Alevgul H Sorman (0000-0001-9935-5140, Ikerbasque), Oliver Johnson (0000-0003-4219-4782, Stockholm Environment Institute), Luis D Virla (0000-0002-4837-7873, University of Calgary), Bernadette P Resurreccion (0000-0001-6694-6016, Stockholm Environment Institute) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Pages | 101550-101550 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Energy Research & Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2214-6296 • E-ISSN: 2214-6326 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101550 |
| OpenAlex | W3020940276 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 65 |
| References cited | 59 |
Transitions toward a low-carbon future are not only technical and economical, but also deeply social and gendered. The gendered nature of energy transitions is often implicit and unexplored. As a corrective, this paper explores energy pathways by applying concepts from innovations and gender studies. We examine gender perspectives and niche energy innovations which could disrupt the regime. The regime represents the mainstream pathway that includes the dominant gender perspective and energy system. We explore different gender perspectives of energy transition pathways by applying an Alternative Pathways framework that includes: (1) on-stream pathways that exist within the mainstream pathway to promote equal opportunities for women and men, as well as niches for energy innovations without challenging the high-carbon energy regime; (2) off-stream pathways that depart from the mainstream and promote differences across different genders while creating niches outside the energy regime; and (3) transformative pathways that are fundamentally different from the previous mainstream and includes all gender perspectives in a new energy regime. Applying this framing, in Canada, we explored Indigenous perspectives in the oil sands sector; in Kenya, we studied largescale renewable energy impacting Indigneous communities; in Spain, we evaluate the movement away from fossil fuels and towards renewable technologies. The framework helped to identify that mainstream pathways represented the dominant male perspective while woman's perspective were largely left out. Such absence generate energy pathways that are disconnected from local realities, lack public buy-in and slow-down a sustainable energy transition
Biology · Energy transition · Framing (construction · Geography · Mainstream · Political science · Renewable energy · Sociology · Transformative learning · Energy and Environment Impacts · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 65 |
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| Citations per year | 10,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2027 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 62 |