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Just transition is gaining increasing scholarly interest due to the need to consider social justice in climate policies and systemic transitions. Rather than seeing transition plainly as a socio-technical process with fixed climate goals, we should devote more attention to the social inequalities and tensions that emerge and need to be tackled on the way towards more sustainable societies. To date, much of just transition research has concentrated on issues arising from energy transitions. There is further need to deepen our understanding of how justice issues manifest themselves across various systems. How do inequalities emerging from energy, mobility or food system transitions differ from one another? Where and how do they intersect? How can different analytical lenses to justice assist us in asking the right questions across the various sustainability transitions? Come and join the webinar with Professor David Schlosberg, Senior Research Fellow Mari Martiskainen, Research Professor Minna Kaljonen and Research Professor Paula Kivimaa to discuss the contribution of various approaches to justice to the understanding of inequalities and tensions caused by sustainability transitions. Public webinar programme Thursday 3 June 2021 at 10 a.m. to 12 a.m. EET
Welcome
Theresa Tribaldos (CDE)
Just Transition in Practice: Systems Transformations, Movement Motivations, and Concepts of Justice
Professor David Schlosberg, University of Sydney
Reducing vulnerability and inequality in low-carbon energy and mobility transitions
Senior Research Fellow Mari Martiskainen, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
Just transition in food systems: Widening the considerations for justice in sustainability transitions
Research Professor Minna Kaljonen, Finnish Environment Institute SYKE
Commentary note
Research Professor Paula Kivimaa, Finnish Environment Institute SYKE
Questions and discussion
Register for webinar
- Please register for the public webinar by 28 May 2021 here.
More information
- Anna Ott, researcher, Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, firstname.lastname@syke.fi, Tel. +358 295 252 202
The webinar is part of webinar series organised to promote reflective and critical discussion on methodologies and new research questions raised by sustainability transformations. The seminar is organized as a collective effort between Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) at the University of Bern (Switzerland) and Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex (United Kingdom). The seminar is organized in collaboration with the Just food -project.
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