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Energy Democracies and Publics in the Making: A Relational Agenda for Research and Practice [PDF]
Frontiers in Communication, 2018 Mainstream approaches to energy democracy and public engagement with energy transitions tend to adopt specific, pre-given meanings of both “democracy” and “publics.” Different approaches impose prescriptive assumptions about the model of participation ...
Jason Chilvers, Helen Pallett
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Operationalizing Energy Democracy: Challenges and Opportunities in Vermont's Renewable Energy Transformation [PDF]
Frontiers in Communication, 2018 As the social movement promoting “energy democracy” expands, analysis of how the principles of energy democracy are being operationalized is increasingly valuable.
Jennie C. Stephens +4 more
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Landscape Democracy and the Implementation of Renewable Energy Facilities [PDF]
Energies, 2023 The internationally accepted goal of eliminating climate gas emissions implies substantial investments in renewable energy (RE) facilities. This will inevitably lead to major impacts on landscapes.
Finn Arler +2 more
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Wasting Democracy, Fueling Dissent: Refuse-Derived Fuels in Can Sant Joan (Catalonia) [PDF]
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2019 The cement industry is one of the most energy intensive in the world, contributing significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions. The use of refuse-derived fuels (RDF) in cement kilns is increasingly portrayed as a sustainable solution to reduce ...
Sergio Ruiz Cayuela +2 more
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Energy justice, democracy and deforestation
Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 This paper contributes to the debate on the determinants of deforestation, a menace that is posing threat to sustainable development particularly in tropical developing regions. Specifically, the paper focuses on the effect of energy justice and democratization.
Alex O. Acheampong +1 more
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Reconciliation and Energy Democracy [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 2020 Abstract: Indigenous clean-energy leaders are moving Canada’s sustainable development agenda along at an impressive rate and are setting the stage for the localization of goods and services. Indigenous communities that do not yet have enough energy security should be the first recipients of green infrastructure investments in order to bolster equity ...
Kimberly A. Scott
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Conceptualizing energy democracy [PDF]
Environmental Politics, 2017 ‘Energy democracy’ epitomizes hopes in energy transformation, but remains under-defined, a political buzzword rather than a real concept.
Kacper Szulecki
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Let democracy rule nuclear energy [PDF]
Nature, 2018 In South Korea, hundreds of well-informed citizens voted on behalf of their country — a technique that should be used more widely, says Ji-Bum Chung. In South Korea, hundreds ofwell-informed citizens voted on behalf of their country — a technique that should be used more widely, says Ji-Bum Chung.
Ji‐Bum Chung
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Can Energy Democracy Thrive in a Non-democracy? [PDF]
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2018 This paper argues that energy democracy could manifest in terms of public engagement at the community level, free of state intervention, government fostering, and donor support, even in locations where governments have been in flux from a democracy to a ...
Laurence L. Delina
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Democratizing Energy, Energizing Democracy: Central Dimensions Surfacing in the Debate [PDF]
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2020 This perspective piece sets out to contribute to the academic and practitioner debates around energy transitions and democracy initiatives in the age of a climate crisis.
Alevgül H. Sorman +4 more
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