Beyond a Czech-The-Box Exercise : Proposals for Meaningful Stakeholder Participation in the Just Transition

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11690/23:10474150

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-39-3-83" target="_blank" >10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-39-3-83</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Beyond a Czech-The-Box Exercise : Proposals for Meaningful Stakeholder Participation in the Just Transition

Original language description

The post-carbon transition presents an opportunity to address the inequalities in economic and political power faced by (semi-)peripheral regions. One such opportunity is the European Union’s (EU’s) just transition policies. However, the EU’s policies fall short in terms of questioning existing socio-economic and power inequalities. Their implementation often relies on technocratic measures and selective expert advice. Particularly in the semiperipheral regions of Central and Eastern Europe, meaningful – as opposed to ‘pro forma’ – participation of all stakeholders in formulating just transition policies is lacking. Using the Czech Republic – a major brown coal producer in the EU – as an illustrative case, we examine the existing obstacles to such meaningful participation and propose how to achieve it. We suggest that meaningful participation requires the direct involvement of diverse, especially underrepresented groups, such as workers in the industries at risk of job losses, and the shifting of the role of experts from a position of privilege to an equal position with non-expert stakeholders. We conclude that involving all affected stakeholders through deliberative methods opens a space to diverse just transition policies. Such policies would create an opportunity to challenge the dominant development narrative proposed by core countries and institutions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)

Project

<a href="/en/project/TL05000289" target="_blank" >TL05000289: The future of work in a post-carbon economy: Perspectives of a just transition of the Czech energy sector</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal für 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

30

Pages from-to

83-112

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85183369685