The ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association in collaboration with the Regional Studies Association (RSA), is organising a three-part webinar series as part of the RSA City and Regional Sustainability Transitions Webinars.
Transitions, especially in the context of regional and urban development and sustainability involve significant changes that can affect communities in different ways. This three-part webinar series highlights the importance of equity in transitions as equity is essential to ensure that transitions are inclusive, equitable and beneficial for all members of society. The series will focus on three key areas: social housing, energy justice and health equity.
We would like to invite all interested parties to the second webinar in the series:
Energy Justice
Friday, March 14, 1:00 PM (12:00 PM GMT), online
The second webinar in the Equity in Transitions series will focus on energy justice, which seeks to ensure equitable social and economic participation in energy systems. Energy justice focuses on marginalised groups and aims to make energy more accessible, affordable, clean and democratically managed for all. Both academic and practical approaches emphasise fair processes and equitable distribution of benefits.
In a first input, Ludger Gailing (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany) will present his empirical work on energy justice in a region that is undergoing structural change and is affected by coal phase-out. He will also explore the key question of what alternative economic opportunities can be created for these regions during their transformation and how this fits into the general debate around energy justice in the energy transition.
In the second input, Saksa Petrova (University of Manchester, UK) will critically reflect on the conceptualisation and operationalisation of ‘energy poverty’ as a household-level issue. Drawing on her over-a-decade research and her new UKRI/ERC consolidator grant GENERATE, Saska will elaborate why energy poverty should be seen as a socio-ecological precarity and injustice. Such framing of energy poverty does not only explain the processes of why and how specific socio-demographic groups and communities are marginalised and excluded from clean and affordable energy systems and governance, but it also demonstrates the care and solidarity that underpin more-than-mundane strategies used to overcome energy poverty.
The presentations will be followed by an open discussion with all participants.
Registration is possible here: https://lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Meeting?ID=560
More information: Webinar Series on European Perspectives on Justice Issues in Socio-Spatial Change – Part 2 | ARL-International