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Just Transitions
Advancing Environmental and Social Justice
9781035318407 Edward Elgar Publishing
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This innovative book promotes a holistic, pragmatic and proactive approach to just transitions. Arguing that justice is both a goal and condition of transitions it rearticulates environmental and social challenges and rethinks the policies designed to overcome them.
This innovative book promotes a holistic, pragmatic and proactive approach to just transitions. Arguing that justice is both a goal and condition of transitions it rearticulates environmental and social challenges and rethinks the policies designed to overcome them.
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This innovative book promotes a holistic, pragmatic and proactive approach to just transitions. Arguing that justice is both a goal and condition of transitions it rearticulates environmental and social challenges and rethinks the policies designed to overcome them.
Éloi Laurent succinctly explores the concepts, frameworks, policy designs, and emerging institutions of just transitions and maps its progress from philosophical streams, to academic fields, to public policies embedded in institutions. Chapters explore a broad spectrum of transition policies, including those aimed at mitigating environmental inequality caused by air pollution and heatwaves, and proactive social-ecological policies such as fair carbon taxation and just mobility regulations. He discusses key examples from across the globe, spanning from food security in France, to water justice in South Africa, to disaster risk reduction in South Asia.
Just Transitions is an essential resource for academics and students specialising in environmental sociology, sociology, social justice, social policy and ecology. Its pairing of theoretical insight and practical examples will also benefit policymakers and stakeholders working in environmental sustainability, climate change and public policy more broadly.
Éloi Laurent succinctly explores the concepts, frameworks, policy designs, and emerging institutions of just transitions and maps its progress from philosophical streams, to academic fields, to public policies embedded in institutions. Chapters explore a broad spectrum of transition policies, including those aimed at mitigating environmental inequality caused by air pollution and heatwaves, and proactive social-ecological policies such as fair carbon taxation and just mobility regulations. He discusses key examples from across the globe, spanning from food security in France, to water justice in South Africa, to disaster risk reduction in South Asia.
Just Transitions is an essential resource for academics and students specialising in environmental sociology, sociology, social justice, social policy and ecology. Its pairing of theoretical insight and practical examples will also benefit policymakers and stakeholders working in environmental sustainability, climate change and public policy more broadly.
Critical Acclaim
‘Éloi Laurent''s new book is an indispensable contribution to understanding the ills, most notably social and environmental inequalities, affecting our societies. The book''s historical and philosophical approach enables everyone to understand and embrace the concept of environmental justice in its complexity. As always, Éloi Laurent provides a unique perspective on the intrinsic links between the degradation of our collective solidarity and the degradation of our ecosystems, and provides essential tools for rethinking our societies in order to place justice and care at the heart of our economic policies.’
– Marie Toussaint, Green/EFA Member of the European Parliament, France
‘Éloi Laurent invites us to boldly imagine the institutions necessary for a resilient, just, democratic, sustainable, and achievable social-ecological state. Just Transitions integrates real existing practices collected from around the globe with political, economic, and philosophical underpinnings from key 20th and 21st century thinkers to project a nascent, realistic and hopeful vision of social-ecological prevention and protection. The book is wonderful and I recommend it in the strongest terms.’
– Michael Ash, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
– Marie Toussaint, Green/EFA Member of the European Parliament, France
‘Éloi Laurent invites us to boldly imagine the institutions necessary for a resilient, just, democratic, sustainable, and achievable social-ecological state. Just Transitions integrates real existing practices collected from around the globe with political, economic, and philosophical underpinnings from key 20th and 21st century thinkers to project a nascent, realistic and hopeful vision of social-ecological prevention and protection. The book is wonderful and I recommend it in the strongest terms.’
– Michael Ash, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Contents
Contents
1 Introduction: Justifying transitions
PART I STREAMS AND FIELDS
Part I Introduction
2 Philosophical streams
3 Academic fields
PART II POLICY DESIGNS, TOOLS AND INSTITUTIONS
Part II Introduction
4 Rethinking justice narratives, inequality and public policy
5 Rethinking the economy and democracy
6 Emerging Institutions
7 Conclusion: Accelerating just transitions
References
1 Introduction: Justifying transitions
PART I STREAMS AND FIELDS
Part I Introduction
2 Philosophical streams
3 Academic fields
PART II POLICY DESIGNS, TOOLS AND INSTITUTIONS
Part II Introduction
4 Rethinking justice narratives, inequality and public policy
5 Rethinking the economy and democracy
6 Emerging Institutions
7 Conclusion: Accelerating just transitions
References
