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Mind the gap: Rethinking transitions along the energy access finance continuum 注意差距：重新思考能源获取融资连续体的转型

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-11-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104444

Whitney Pailman , Jiska de Groot , Ruth Massey

This paper examines transitions along the financing continuum for energy access companies, highlighting the dynamic and often non-sequential pathways through which they secure capital. It explores the complexities of moving between funding types and stages, identifying the critical junctures where funding gaps emerge and how these discontinuities affect the delivery of energy access business models and technologies. Drawing on the Transforming Energy Access (TEA) research and innovation platform as a case study, the paper makes three academic contributions. Firstly, it shows that energy access companies often follow non-linear, bidirectional finance pathways characterised by discontinuities and repeated cycling between early- and later-stage instruments - a departure from theoretical models of linear financing trajectories. Secondly, it demonstrates that existing financing approaches do not adequately address key gaps, particularly in bridging the grant-equity-debt disjuncture. Thirdly, it argues for an expansion of patient capital and enabling policy strategies that create ‘innovation spaces’ for experimentation within a non-linear finance continuum. By addressing these challenges, policymakers, development partners and funders can create a more enabling environment for off-grid energy companies.

本文考察了能源获取公司融资连续体的转变，强调了他们获得资本的动态且通常是非连续的途径。它探讨了在融资类型和阶段之间转换的复杂性，确定了出现资金缺口的关键节点，以及这些不连续性如何影响能源获取商业模式和技术的交付。本文以能源转型接入（TEA）研究与创新平台为例，做了三点学术贡献。首先，它表明能源获取公司通常遵循非线性、双向的融资路径，其特征是早期和后期工具之间的不连续和重复循环，这与线性融资轨迹的理论模型不同。其次，它表明现有的融资方法不能充分解决关键差距，特别是在弥合赠款-股权-债务脱节方面。第三，它主张扩大耐心资本和扶持政策战略，在非线性金融连续体中为实验创造“创新空间”。通过应对这些挑战，政策制定者、发展伙伴和资助者可以为离网能源公司创造一个更加有利的环境。

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Energy, equity and inclusion: Exploring gender equality and social inclusion in energy planning in Kenya 能源、公平和包容：探讨肯尼亚能源规划中的性别平等和社会包容

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-11-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104432

Janina Luisa Fuchs , Lucille Akelo Onyango , Stephanie Hirmer , Julia Tomei

The provision of universal access to modern energy and the facilitation of a clean and equitable energy transition depends on the consideration of the needs of marginalised and vulnerable groups in energy planning. Kenya has made significant progress in increasing energy access and has implemented policies aimed at inclusivity and equality in energy and other sectors. However, questions remain about how gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) is understood, framed and operationalised by decision-makers across governance levels. Through a policy review and 23 semi-structured interviews with experts from national and county governments, civil society organisations and the private sector, this paper investigates how stakeholder perceptions towards GESI impact on broader structural framings in policy and planning in Kenya's energy sector. Findings reveal that while gender considerations are increasingly recognised, other forms of marginalisation and their intersectionality remain insufficiently addressed—some experts see GESI as only relating to gender, rather than something that includes a broader range of marginalising factors. Furthermore, the implementation of GESI-related commitments remains limited, particularly at the sub-national level, due to a lack of institutional capacity and resources. The paper concludes that Kenya has made notable strides to mainstream GESI in energy policy and planning; however, further efforts are required to dismantle structural barriers, including persistent gender norms and power imbalances.

提供普遍获得现代能源的机会和促进清洁和公平的能源过渡取决于在能源规划中考虑到边缘化和易受伤害群体的需要。肯尼亚在增加能源获取方面取得了重大进展，并实施了旨在实现能源和其他部门包容性和平等的政策。然而，关于性别平等和社会包容（GESI）如何被各级政府决策者理解、构建和实施的问题仍然存在。通过政策审查和对来自国家和县政府、民间社会组织和私营部门的专家的23次半结构化访谈，本文调查了利益相关者对GESI的看法如何影响肯尼亚能源部门政策和规划的更广泛的结构框架。调查结果显示，尽管性别因素日益得到认可，但其他形式的边缘化及其相互交织性仍然没有得到充分解决——一些专家认为GESI仅与性别有关，而不是包括更广泛的边缘化因素。此外，由于缺乏机构能力和资源，与全球环境信息系统有关的承诺的执行仍然有限，特别是在次国家一级。本文的结论是，肯尼亚在将GESI纳入能源政策和规划主流方面取得了显著进展；然而，需要进一步努力消除结构性障碍，包括持续存在的性别规范和权力不平衡。

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Who should lead nuclear fusion research? Cross-national evidence on public–private governance preferences in Europe 谁应该领导核聚变研究？欧洲公私治理偏好的跨国证据

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-11-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104458

Alessio Giacometti , Christian Oltra , Chiara Bustreo , Catrinel Turcanu , Piotr Stankiewicz , Gaston Meskens , Vanja Čok , Ana Prades , Giuseppe Pellegrini-Masini , Maria Teresa Orlando

Nuclear fusion research is experiencing unprecedented momentum, driven by public investment and a surge in private start-ups claiming to accelerate commercialization distinct from government-led initiatives. This shift towards private leadership is a new dynamic, yet its implications for public perception and social acceptance have been largely overlooked. This study addresses that critical gap using exploratory findings from a large-scale, cross-national survey in 21 European countries (N = 19,144). We analyzed public preferences for who should lead fusion research and used multinomial logistic regression to identify associated demographic and trust-related factors. Results show a clear public consensus favoring a collaborative model: an overwhelming majority (74 %) believe governments and private companies should be equally involved. In contrast, only 20 % prefer a government-led model and just 6 % a private-led one. The regression analysis reveals that being of older age and female gender is associated with a higher likelihood of preferring this collaborative approach. Furthermore, higher trust in scientists is linked to a lower preference for private-sector leadership. This study provides the first large-scale empirical evidence of public preferences for fusion governance, highlighting a potential misalignment between the industry's push for privatization and the public's desire for collaboration. We discuss these findings by drawing on literature regarding anti-industry sentiment and public skepticism towards the powerful institutions controlling new technologies. The findings suggest citizens desire a balance of strengths, viewing neither the state nor private firms as solely trustworthy to manage the quest for fusion energy.

核聚变研究正经历着前所未有的势头，这主要得益于公共投资和私营初创企业的激增，这些初创企业声称将加速与政府主导的计划不同的商业化进程。这种向私人领导的转变是一种新的动态，但它对公众认知和社会接受程度的影响在很大程度上被忽视了。本研究利用在21个欧洲国家（N = 19,144）进行的大规模跨国调查的探索性发现解决了这一关键差距。我们分析了公众对谁应该领导融合研究的偏好，并使用多项逻辑回归来确定相关的人口统计学和信任相关因素。调查结果显示，公众一致支持合作模式：绝大多数人（74%）认为政府和私营企业应该平等参与。相比之下，只有20%的人喜欢政府主导的模式，只有6%的人喜欢私人主导的模式。回归分析显示，年龄较大和女性更倾向于这种合作方式。此外，对科学家的更高信任与对私营部门领导的较低偏好有关。本研究首次提供了公众对融合治理偏好的大规模经验证据，强调了行业推动私有化与公众希望合作之间的潜在错位。我们通过引用有关反产业情绪和公众对控制新技术的强大机构的怀疑的文献来讨论这些发现。调查结果表明，公民希望力量平衡，认为无论是国有企业还是私营企业都不值得信赖，不能单独管理核聚变能源的探索。

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Multidimensional energy poverty and food insecurity nexus in Gauteng and Western cape provinces of South Africa 南非豪登省和西开普省的多维能源贫困和粮食不安全关系

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-11-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104460

Adrino Mazenda

Energy poverty and food insecurity are interconnected challenges that disproportionately affect vulnerable populations in low and middle-income countries. The paper utilised the Tobit regression model to examine the relationship between household food insecurity and various socioeconomic factors, and the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) to examine the complex interactions between multidimensional energy poverty (MEP), (measured by the MEP fuzzy score) and food insecurity, measured by the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS), mediated by various socioeconomic factors. A total of 6484 households were analysed, categorised by region and gender, in both metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas of the Gauteng and Western Cape provinces of South Africa, using data from the 2021–2022 South African General Household Survey. The Tobit regression findings showed that higher household income consistently reduces food insecurity. A larger household size and increased MEP contribute to higher levels of food insecurity, with the effect of MEP being significant in the Western Cape. Social grant recipients remained more food insecure, suggesting persistent vulnerability. Spatial differences emerged, with higher food insecurity in metropolitan areas of the Western Cape but lower in Gauteng. The SEM analysis revealed that energy poverty has a direct and significant impact on food insecurity, with household income serving as the strongest mediating factor. Education, employment, and household size contributed modest indirect effects, while other socio-economic variables showed weak or inconsistent mediation. The paper highlights the importance of adopting integrated policy approaches that simultaneously address energy access and food security, with a focus on gender and spatial inequalities.

能源贫困和粮食不安全是相互关联的挑战，对低收入和中等收入国家的弱势群体影响尤为严重。本文利用Tobit回归模型研究了家庭粮食不安全与各种社会经济因素之间的关系，并利用结构方程模型（SEM）研究了多维能源贫困（MEP）（以MEP模糊评分衡量）与粮食不安全（以家庭粮食不安全获取量表（HFIAS）衡量）之间的复杂相互作用，这些相互作用由各种社会经济因素介导。使用2021-2022年南非综合家庭调查的数据，对南非豪登省和西开普省的大都市和非大都市地区的6484个家庭进行了分析，按地区和性别进行了分类。Tobit回归结果表明，较高的家庭收入持续减少粮食不安全。较大的家庭规模和增加的农业生产总值导致更高水平的粮食不安全，农业生产总值的影响在西开普省是显著的。社会补助金接受者的粮食不安全状况仍较为严重，表明脆弱性持续存在。出现了空间差异，西开普省大都市区的粮食不安全程度较高，而豪登省的粮食不安全程度较低。SEM分析表明，能源贫困对粮食不安全具有直接而显著的影响，其中家庭收入是最强的中介因素。教育、就业和家庭规模对间接影响的贡献不大，而其他社会经济变量的中介作用较弱或不一致。本文强调了采取综合政策方法同时解决能源获取和粮食安全问题的重要性，重点是性别和空间不平等问题。

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Using the Capability-Opportunity-Motivation-Behaviour (COM-B) model to investigate end-user barriers and facilitators to low-rise district heating retrofit in the United Kingdom 使用能力-机会-动机-行为（COM-B）模型调查最终用户对英国低层区域供热改造的障碍和促进因素

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-11-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104459

Michael A. Smith , Faye L. Doughty

Domestic heating is a substantial contributor to carbon emissions, so the adoption of efficient heating solutions, using renewable energy sources, is needed to support many countries in achieving net-zero commitments. District heat networks (DHNs) are recognised as a key component of urban energy infrastructure in the transition to low-carbon energy. However, it is critical to understand and overcome barriers to adoption for end-users, to ensure DHNs can be implemented at the pace and scale needed to support sustainability ambitions. Non-technical barriers, including social acceptance and behaviour change, are important issues which need to be addressed to promote end-user uptake of DHN technology, particularly with respect to retrofit projects. Here, we used an explanatory sequential mixed-methods approach, whereby a pilot resident survey informed a qualitative study which sought to understand the barriers and facilitators to DHN connection among residents from two low-rise neighbourhoods targeted for DHN retrofit. The Capability-Opportunity-Motivation-Behaviour (COM-B) model was used to elucidate the data obtained. The analyses revealed that resident knowledge and understanding of DHNs is poor, but that provision of informational resources will promote both information seeking and intention to connect to the DHN. Community involvement in DHN initiatives was identified as an important facilitator of DHN engagement. Perceptions of DHN costs and environmental benefits were further determinants of resident perceptions of the DHN. To facilitate policy development, nine behaviour change techniques are proposed for incorporation into interventions aimed at leveraging the identified facilitators and overcoming barriers to DHN connection.

家庭供暖是碳排放的重要来源，因此需要采用利用可再生能源的高效供暖解决方案，以支持许多国家实现净零排放承诺。区域热网（dhn）被认为是城市能源基础设施向低碳能源转型的关键组成部分。然而，至关重要的是要了解并克服最终用户采用dhn的障碍，以确保dhn能够以支持可持续发展目标所需的速度和规模实施。非技术障碍，包括社会接受和行为改变，是需要解决的重要问题，以促进最终用户采用DHN技术，特别是在改造项目方面。在这里，我们使用了解释性顺序混合方法，通过试点居民调查为定性研究提供信息，该研究旨在了解两个低层社区居民之间DHN连接的障碍和促进因素，这些社区是DHN改造的目标。采用能力-机会-动机-行为（COM-B）模型对所得数据进行解释。分析显示，居民对卫生保健网的认识和理解较差，但信息资源的提供将促进信息寻求和与卫生保健网建立联系的意愿。社区参与DHN倡议被确定为DHN参与的重要促进因素。对DHN成本和环境效益的认知是居民对DHN认知的进一步决定因素。为了促进政策制定，提出了九种行为改变技术，以纳入旨在利用已确定的促进因素和克服DHN连接障碍的干预措施。

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From play to practice: Using principles of causal loop diagrams and serious games to foster systems thinking in energy transitions 从游戏到实践：使用因果循环图和严肃游戏的原则来培养能量转换的系统思维

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-11-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104445

Jair K.E.K. Campfens , Claudia R. Binder , Jecel Censoro , Myra Giesen

This study builds on the growing use of serious games in sustainability contexts by using principles of Causal Loop Diagrams in a game-based format to strengthen systems thinking and co-create actionable measures in energy transitions. Our game-based approach unfolds over three phases. First, participants engage in card arrangement and system mapping to co-construct a shared understanding of the socio-technical energy system using system cards. Second, they establish connections and feedback loops of these system cards. Third, participants identify measures for change by proposing interventions aligned with local energy goals and visions. Two case studies demonstrate the applicability of this approach in the municipality of Saint-Prex in Switzerland and the North East region of England. In Saint-Prex, participants emphasised behavioural change and trust in local governance, highlighting a feedback loop where solar PV adoption boosted social acceptance and perceived economic viability. In North East England, participants surfaced barriers such as policy fragmentation and infrastructure gaps, while identifying reinforcing feedback loops between EV manufacturing and battery production that revealed industrial synergies. Across both cases, the game-based approach enabled participants to visualise system dynamics, co-create strategies, and build shared mental models. The workshops were evaluated positively, with participants reporting increased empowerment. Future research could examine how the co-developed measures might be effectively prioritised and temporally sequenced to form coherent transition pathways.

本研究基于严肃游戏在可持续性背景下的日益增长的使用，通过在基于游戏的格式中使用因果循环图的原则来加强系统思考，并在能源转换中共同创造可操作的措施。我们基于游戏的方法分为三个阶段。首先，参与者参与卡片排列和系统映射，共同构建对社会技术能源系统使用系统卡片的共同理解。第二，建立这些系统卡之间的联系和反馈回路。第三，参与者通过提出与当地能源目标和愿景相一致的干预措施来确定变革措施。两个案例研究证明了这种方法在瑞士圣普雷克斯市和英格兰东北部地区的适用性。在圣普雷克斯，与会者强调了行为改变和对地方治理的信任，强调了太阳能光伏的采用提高了社会接受度和经济可行性的反馈循环。在英格兰东北部，参与者发现了政策分裂和基础设施差距等障碍，同时发现了电动汽车制造和电池生产之间不断强化的反馈循环，揭示了产业协同效应。在这两种情况下，基于游戏的方法使参与者能够可视化系统动态，共同制定策略并建立共享的心理模型。讲习班得到了积极的评价，参与者报告说，他们获得了更多的权力。未来的研究可以检查共同开发的措施如何有效地优先排序和时间排序，以形成连贯的过渡途径。

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Quiet power: How security interests shape offshore wind and marine spatial planning in Sweden 安静的力量：安全利益如何影响瑞典的海上风能和海洋空间规划

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-11-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104451

Karina Barquet, Frans Sjölander

Offshore wind energy is increasingly framed by the European Union (EU) as critical infrastructure for achieving energy security, reducing fossil fuel dependence, and responding to geopolitical tensions, especially following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This paper investigates how offshore wind development in Sweden is shaped by evolving security-related narratives, and whether it is becoming securitized across international, national, and local levels of governance. Addressing a gap in the literature on energy transitions and security, the study combines insights from securitization theory with a multi-level governance lens to examine how discourses, actors, and tools shape the governance of offshore wind. Empirically, it draws on qualitative analysis of 15 policy documents and 10 interviews with EU, Swedish national, and local stakeholders. The findings reveal a fragmented governance landscape: while EU institutions increasingly treat offshore wind as a security imperative, Swedish authorities approach it primarily through risk-based and technical planning frameworks. Yet national defence actors, especially in the Baltic Sea region, exert significant behind-the-scenes influence, shaping outcomes without transparent deliberation. This “soft securitization” constrains the democratic and integrative ambitions of Marine Spatial Planning, the key policy tool for managing marine use conflicts. The study underscores the uneven and contested nature of securitization processes and highlights the institutional challenges of balancing security, environmental, and democratic priorities in offshore energy governance.

海上风能日益被欧盟（EU）视为实现能源安全、减少对化石燃料依赖和应对地缘政治紧张局势的关键基础设施，尤其是在俄罗斯入侵乌克兰之后。本文研究了瑞典的海上风电开发是如何通过不断发展的安全相关叙事来塑造的，以及它是否在国际、国家和地方各级治理中变得证券化。该研究解决了能源转型和安全文献中的空白，将证券化理论的见解与多层次治理视角结合起来，研究了话语、行动者和工具如何塑造海上风电的治理。在经验上，它借鉴了15个政策文件的定性分析，并与欧盟、瑞典国家和地方利益相关者进行了10次访谈。研究结果揭示了一种支离破碎的治理格局：尽管欧盟机构越来越多地将海上风电视为安全的必要条件，但瑞典当局主要通过基于风险和技术的规划框架来解决这一问题。然而，国防行为体，尤其是波罗的海地区的国防行为体，在幕后施加了重大影响，在没有经过透明审议的情况下塑造了结果。这种“软证券化”限制了海洋空间规划的民主和综合目标，而海洋空间规划是管理海洋使用冲突的关键政策工具。该研究强调了证券化过程的不平衡性和争议性，并强调了在海上能源治理中平衡安全、环境和民主优先事项的制度挑战。

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Reordering the European energy hegemony: war, markets and ideology 重整欧洲能源霸权：战争、市场和意识形态

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-11-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104454

Brian Salter, Kalina K. Damianova

Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine disrupted the traditional gas relationship between Europe and Russia and triggered a crisis for EU energy security and climate ambitions. Understanding how the European energy hegemony is being reordered is key for assessing the EU's future capacity to act as a cohesive geopolitical and climate leader. Using a qualitative, interpretive political economy approach grounded in Gramscian theory to analyse some of the most affected member state, we identify four distinct trajectories of hegemonic adaptation to the immediate aftermath of the crisis: Germany's contested ideological restructuring as its traditional leadership weakened; Poland's pre-emptive counter-hegemonic rise; Hungary's resistant alignment with Russia; and Latvia's rapid ideological break from Russian energy despite structural vulnerability. The findings demonstrate that energy transitions within the EU are determined not only by material interests but by domestic political struggles over legitimacy and regional leadership. Using Gramscian theory the article provides a novel account of how hegemonic reordering unfolds unevenly inside the EU and argues that the resulting fragmentation introduces challenges for decarbonisation and for Europe's wider geopolitical coherence as the war continues to reshape the continent's energy order.

俄罗斯2022年对乌克兰的全面入侵破坏了欧洲和俄罗斯之间传统的天然气关系，并引发了欧盟能源安全和气候雄心的危机。了解欧洲能源霸权是如何重新排序的，是评估欧盟未来作为一个有凝聚力的地缘政治和气候领导者的能力的关键。运用基于葛兰西理论的定性的、解释性的政治经济学方法来分析一些受影响最大的成员国，我们确定了四种不同的霸权适应危机直接后果的轨迹：德国在其传统领导力减弱的情况下进行有争议的意识形态重组；波兰先发制人的反霸权崛起；匈牙利与俄罗斯结盟；拉脱维亚在意识形态上迅速与俄罗斯能源决裂，尽管其结构存在脆弱性。研究结果表明，欧盟内部的能源转型不仅取决于物质利益，还取决于国内围绕合法性和地区领导权的政治斗争。本文运用葛兰西理论，对霸权重组如何在欧盟内部不均衡地展开进行了新颖的描述，并辩称，随着战争继续重塑欧洲大陆的能源秩序，由此产生的分裂给脱碳和欧洲更广泛的地缘政治一致性带来了挑战。

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When oil companies race to the bottom: Environmental enforcement in theory and corporate impunity in practice in the Peruvian Amazon 当石油公司竞争到底：秘鲁亚马逊地区理论上的环境执法和企业不受惩罚的实践

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-11-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104433

G. Rius-Taberner , Lorenzo Pellegrini , Gorka Muñoa , M. Orta-Martínez

Over the past two decades, Latin American States have adopted laws and created institutions to oversee the activities of transnational extractive companies. Despite these efforts, scholars argue that companies routinely breach environmental regulations and face little consequences. This study employs a case study of oil blocks 1AB/192 and 8 to examine how environmental enforcement operates in practice. Drawing on data from the Peruvian Environmental Assessment and Enforcement Agency (OEFA) and a locally-run indigenous participatory monitoring system, we find that only 34 % of 1184 identified impacts were inspected, with sanctions applied in 17 % of cases. Even then, corrective measures were poorly implemented, and fines were often unpaid. We show how corporate actors exploit appeals and liquidation strategies to evade accountability. These findings highlight the structural weaknesses of Peru's enforcement system and underscore the need for multi-scalar response involving stronger institutional capacity, integration of Indigenous monitoring, and international legal reforms that address structural conditions enabling corporate impunity.

在过去二十年中，拉丁美洲国家通过了法律并建立了机构来监督跨国采掘公司的活动。尽管做出了这些努力，但学者们认为，企业经常违反环境法规，几乎没有什么后果。本研究以1AB/192和8石油区块为例，考察环境执法在实践中的运作方式。根据秘鲁环境评估和执法机构（OEFA）和当地土著参与式监测系统的数据，我们发现，在1184个已确定的影响中，只有34%得到了检查，17%的情况下实施了制裁。即使在那时，纠正措施也没有得到很好的执行，罚款经常被拖欠。我们展示了企业行为者如何利用上诉和清算策略来逃避责任。这些调查结果凸显了秘鲁执法系统的结构性弱点，并强调需要采取多层面应对措施，包括加强机构能力、整合土著监测以及解决导致企业有罪不罚的结构性条件的国际法律改革。

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Just transition to electric vehicles in disadvantaged communities: Integrating transportation, energy, environmental, and climate justice 在弱势社区向电动汽车过渡：整合交通、能源、环境和气候正义

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-11-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104449

Abdirashid Dahir , Jeffrey M. Bielicki , Jeffrey Jacquet , Huyen T.K. Le

Electric vehicle (EV) adoption rates are disproportionately lower in low-income and ethnically minority communities, which may perpetuate injustices when electrifying the transportation system. Existing justice frameworks take siloed views of justice considerations in the transition to EVs, with connections between transportation, energy, and climate justice having been understudied. We developed and applied the novel Just Transition to Electric Vehicles (JTEV) framework, integrating justice considerations in the above domains. We conducted semi-structured interviews in four languages with 45 residents of underserved neighborhoods of Columbus, Ohio (USA) to investigate how EV adoption intersects with energy poverty, transportation poverty, and climate and environmental injustices. The interviews reveal five main justice themes for transportation, energy, climate, environment, and EV adoption and sub-themes of solar equity gap (under the energy justice theme), and five EV adoption subthemes: barriers to EV adoption, affordable energy support, perceived health and air quality benefits, climate benefits, and economic benefits. We showed how intertwined disadvantages perpetuate or exacerbate distributive, recognition, restorative, and procedural injustices in the EV transition. These findings are important for addressing the vicious cycle of injustices that hinder the capabilities of disadvantaged communities when designing policies for a just EV transition.

电动汽车（EV）在低收入和少数民族社区的采用率低得不成比例，这可能会使交通系统电气化时的不公正现象长期存在。在向电动汽车转型的过程中，现有的司法框架对司法考虑采取了孤立的观点，对交通、能源和气候正义之间的联系研究不足。我们开发并应用了新的电动汽车公正过渡（JTEV）框架，整合了上述领域的公正考虑。我们用四种语言对美国俄亥俄州哥伦布市服务欠缺社区的45名居民进行了半结构化访谈，以调查电动汽车的采用与能源贫困、交通贫困以及气候和环境不公正之间的关系。访谈揭示了交通、能源、气候、环境和电动汽车采用的五个主要正义主题，太阳能公平差距的子主题（在能源正义主题下），以及电动汽车采用的五个子主题：电动汽车采用的障碍，负担得起的能源支持，感知健康和空气质量效益，气候效益和经济效益。我们展示了在电动汽车转型中，相互交织的劣势是如何延续或加剧分配、认可、恢复和程序上的不公正的。这些发现对于解决在设计公平的电动汽车转型政策时阻碍弱势社区能力的不公正恶性循环具有重要意义。

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