Regional Energy Transitions: Implications for Workers, Communities, and Climate Action
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Date: 3/27/2023
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Directors Row I, Sheraton, Plaza Building, Lobby Level
Type: Paper,
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Sponsor Group(s):
Economic Geography Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Virginia Parks University of California Irvine
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Description:
This session considers the impacts of regional energy transitions on workers and communities, especially those dependent upon fossil fuel or other carbon-based energy production. Papers focus on a range of different geographies and policy issues, such as “just transition” policies and local economic development planning. Each engages the local economic and equity effects of energy transitions on workers, families, and communities.
Presentations (if applicable) and Session Agenda:
Virginia Parks, University of California - Irvine |
Fossil Fuel Layoff: The Economic and Employment Effects of a Refinery Closure on Workers in Northern California’s Bay Area |
Hanna Lempinen |
Lost in transition: Peat workers’ experiences of Finland’s and Ireland’s just energy transitions |
Andrey Petrov, University of Northern Iowa |
From Benefit Sharing to Benefit Sovereignty: A Just Transition in the Arctic Extractive Industry? |
Gabe Eckhouse, Uppsala University |
Carbon Purgatory: The dysfunctional political economy of oil during the energy transition |
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Regional Energy Transitions: Implications for Workers, Communities, and Climate Action
Description
Type: Paper,
Date: 3/27/2023
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Directors Row I, Sheraton, Plaza Building, Lobby Level
Contact the Primary Organizer
Virginia Parks University of California Irvine
vparks@uci.edu
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