Perspectives Southeastern Europe #10: Green transition and social (in)justice
There is a great difference between a mere survival of the humankind and the preservation of quality of life. That is why the role of justice in the green transition goes far beyond the entitlement to a safe and healthy environment. The coming climate crisis takes place in a world characterized by a whole variety of injustices, which affect all human rights. These injustices will probably be exacerbated by the crisis, on one hand because of deteriorating conditions and on the other due to weakening of social security policies and measures against growing inequalities.
Therefore, our problem is twofold: to develop strategies and policies of a green transition to decarbonised manufacturing, agriculture, and transport; and to do it in a way which not only does not deepen injustices and inequalities but creates conditions for life with dignity for all. In other words, the fundamental change of human relation to nature should be accompanied by a similarly fundamental change in social relationships.
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introduction
just transition in unjust societies
Srđan Dvornik
are our societies ready?
dismantling monopolies in the green transition
Majda Ibraković
prospects for independent action in the Western Balkans’ energy transition
Pippa Gallop
just green transition challenges
Samir Lemeš
social peace or social justice for victims of green transition?
Kristina Cvejanov
just energy transition
Diana Milev Čavor
political challenges
first we need trust for justice to be “just”:
a view on energy transition from the coal-impacted community of Lazarevac, Serbia
Maja Pupovac
decarbonisation of the region – a sustainable and just energy transition
Viktor Berishaj
how to restore social well-being and whether decarbonized energy is possible in the Western Balkans
Nataša Kovačević
eternal ramble – two faces of energy policy in Serbia
Jovan Rajić
green transition and citizens’ action
from zero to 10 000 protesters, or how the living environment became topic number one in Serbia
Milja Vuković, Radovan Božović
Montenegro - challenges on the path to democracy development
Nina Milić
the social impact of hydropower on affected communities
Rea Nepravishta
the energy and environmental potential of the Komarnica river
Vuk Iković
energy cooperatives – a new-old form of organization for a democratic and fair energy sector in Serbia
Predrag Momčilović
green transition in the global framework
just (another) transition?
the limitations and opportunities of just ecological transition on the European semi-periphery
Vedran Horvat
populism and ecology. on the possibility of ecology becoming a politically relevant topic
Mariglen Demiri
the anti-environmentalism of capitalism as the dominant system of contemporary production of social life
Vladimir Lay