Undermined Efforts? The Ambiguous Role of Mining Jobs in a Just Transition
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14230/23:00132654
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=gWx2bsow8o" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=gWx2bsow8o</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-39-3-113" target="_blank" >10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-39-3-113</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Undermined Efforts? The Ambiguous Role of Mining Jobs in a Just Transition
Original language description
In finding alternatives for workers currently employed in the fossil fuel industry, just transition policies can ultimately undermine environmental concerns and efforts to redress inequalities. For example, it is suggested to create jobs in other extractive industries to meet the material requirements of renewable energy technologies. We focus on this ambiguous role of job preservation as a key demand of just transition and review selected national transformation strategies from the Global North and the Global South. Comparing qualification requirements of coal mining jobs with other alternatives, we propose to complement current strategies with jobs outside the extractive sector value chains. Fostering these can work towards realising social and environmental goals in synergy, rather than pitting one against the other. We conclude that finding work opportunities that minimise extraction requirements and benefit local communities can help level global and regional inequalities by allowing mining regions to escape from their current positions in global value chains.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal fuer Entwicklungspolitik
ISSN
0258-2384
e-ISSN
2414-3197
Volume of the periodical
39
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3/4
Country of publishing house
AT - AUSTRIA
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
113-138
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85183423989