The journal Environmental Policy and Governance has published a Special Issue focusing justice in the governance of the green transition. Eva Lövbrand from GROWL contributes both as an editor of the special issue and as a co-author of two of its articles, one of which is written together with Cecilia Enberg and Veronica Brodén-Gyberg. The special issue includes a total of eight articles that, from a critical perspective, address questions related to how justice is done in the governance of the green transition. The special issue is presented on the journal’s website as follows:
In this Special Issue, we trace how justice concerns are brought into European climate policy discourse and shape how transition governance is accomplished on international, national and local scales. We critically examine the systems of thought, rationalities and vocabularies that give justice in transition governance meaning, as well as the many techniques, mechanisms and procedures through which just transitions are implemented in practical terms – from the EU to the local level. In short, this Special Issue adopts a critical-constructivist perspective, asking how justice is imagined, enacted and ‘done’ in European transition governance.
While engaging a diversity of theoretical perspectives and empirical starting points, the papers included in this Special Issue share an interest in the ‘doings of justice’ and the forms of subjectivity and social order that just transition policies are buffering, guiding and projecting. Engaging with empirical cases from Finland, Sweden, Scotland, the Netherlands and Germany, as well as the EU and international academic debate, they explore how just transitions are made sense of, problematised and institutionalised, performed, contested and resisted.
Read the Special Issue here:
In this Special Issue, we trace how justice concerns are brought into European climate policy discourse and shape how transition governance is accomplished on international, national and local scales. We critically examine the systems of thought, rationalities and vocabularies that give justice in transition governance meaning, as well as the many techniques, mechanisms and procedures through which just transitions are implemented in practical terms – from the EU to the local level. In short, this Special Issue adopts a critical-constructivist perspective, asking how justice is imagined, enacted and ‘done’ in European transition governance.
While engaging a diversity of theoretical perspectives and empirical starting points, the papers included in this Special Issue share an interest in the ‘doings of justice’ and the forms of subjectivity and social order that just transition policies are buffering, guiding and projecting. Engaging with empirical cases from Finland, Sweden, Scotland, the Netherlands and Germany, as well as the EU and international academic debate, they explore how just transitions are made sense of, problematised and institutionalised, performed, contested and resisted.
Read the Special Issue here: