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Abraham, Judson Charles. "Populist Just Transitions." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104394.
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This dissertation argues that the just transition policy framework may not vivify labor internationalism or erode support for right-wing populists if just transitions are not part of left-wing populist projects. Labor internationalism, which involves labor unions cooperating across borders to pursue common goals, is increasingly important as unions strive to work with their foreign counterparts to influence the international community's urgent efforts to address climate change. Right-wing populism is a growing threat to organized labor and climate protection efforts. Some labor activists hope that advocacy for the just transition policy framework, a set of guidelines for compensating workers in polluting industries who are laid-off as a result of environmental protections, will unite labor organizations from around the world and improve their approaches to international solidarity. Progressives hope that just transition policies will discourage voters from supporting right-wing populist candidates, who are often climate skeptics, out of fear of the job losses that accompany environmentalist reforms. However, I question the assumption that just transition policies, in and of themselves, can serve as solutions to the challenges posed by right-wing populism or overcome divisions within the global labor movement. It is possible for economic nationalism at the expense of global solidarity to continue and for right-wing populists to maintain support in decarbonizing areas where policy makers have indemnified laid-off fossil fuel workers. Integrating just transition policies into left-wing populist politics could potentially make just transitions more useful for countering the far-right and promoting labor internationalism. This dissertation looks to the political theorist Antonio Gramsci's thoughts regarding the "national popular," which Gramsci's readers often associate with left-wing populism. The national popular entails intellectuals from different fields (such as the academy, journalism, and manufacturing) coming together to modernize patriotism and strip it of chauvinistic nationalism. I point out that the original proposals for just transitions prioritized providing free higher education for the workers laid-off from polluting industries. The just transition framework's stress on higher education has populistic implications. Educators, particularly members of teachers' unions, may practice populism throughout the implementation of a just transition for laid-off coal workers by encouraging the displaced workers to cooperate with knowledge workers to rethink nationalism. If workers displaced from polluting industries rethink nationalism in university settings while maintaining their connections to the labor movement, then these workers may in turn reject far-right politicians and discourage organized labor from supporting trade nationalism.
La, Torre Ramirez Cesar. "Exploring the factors affecting just sustainability transitions in the agri-food sector in developing countries : The case of Peruvian blueberries." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Industriell teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-447303.
Full textCrudi, Franco. "Towards a sustainable and just energy system in the city of Malmö : Social Innovations in the Energy Sector." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43364.
Full textCilliers, Johan. "Just preaching … in times of transition." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-197582.
Full textMonteith, Struan. "A Qualitative Analysis of the South African Just Transition." Master's thesis, Faculty of Commerce, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33867.
Full textRamos, Olivares Itzel. "Transición Energética y Conflictos Socioambientales en México: Situación, problemas y perspectivas jurídicas para una Transición Justa." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/668963.
Full textLos desequilibrios de los ciclos ecológicos del Sistema Tierra y el cambio climático, causados en mayor medida por un metabolismo social global dependiente de los combustibles fósiles, apremian para la búsqueda de estrategias de gobernanza global que supongan la transición hacia una sociedad cuya reproducción se asiente en un modelo económico descarbonificado y sostenible. El desafío de un nuevo modelo de producción económica y el cambio de funcionamiento social es operar dentro de los límites planetarios desde una perspectiva de justicia. En este contexto global, la política de transición energética en México surge como respuesta a los compromisos asumidos a nivel internacional en materia de cambio climático. La presente tesis doctoral tiene por objeto el análisis de esta política energética nacional, desde su formulación hasta su implementación, a efectos de determinar si la misma es congruente en términos de justicia. De esta manera, considerando algunas aproximaciones teóricas como las de justicia ambiental, justicia climática y justicia energética, entre otras, el estudio pretende, desde una perspectiva crítica, formular argumentos para evaluar si es posible, en las condiciones actuales, afirmar que la transición energética en México se está llevando a cabo de manera justa y, en todo caso, señalar cuáles son los factores que el Estado debería tomar en cuenta en su transición hacia la sostenibilidad.
The disruption of the Earth system’s ecological cycles and climate change, mainly caused by a global social metabolism based on fossil fuels, call for the international community to look for changes within global governance strategies towards a sustainable development model not based on fossil fuels. The challenge posed by this new economic development model and by this new social organization relies on how to operate within planetary boundaries from a justice perspective. In this global context, the Mexican energy transition policy is the response to the international commitments undertaken by the government regarding climate change. This doctoral thesis intends to analyze all the steps taken in the national energy policy context, from planning to implementation, all from a justice perspective. In this sense, some analytical tools, like environmental justice, climate justice and energy justice, are used to critically evaluate this policy. The main research question is whether relies on the elements that the Mexican government should consider for the implementation of the energy police, in terms of justice.
Metheny, William M. (William Marion). "Implementation of Just-in-Time Manufacturing: Perceptions of Behavioral Change During the Transition." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332580/.
Full textPare, Daniel J. "Internet governance in transition : just who is the master of this domain?" Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324190.
Full textJung, Samuel (Samuel Seung). "A Just Transition : energy democracy, community choice aggregation, and the (im)possibilities of change." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111393.
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The ways in which electricity is being generated, distributed, transmitted, and stored are undergoing unprecedented change. Movements for energy democracy, and proponents of a Just Transition -a transformation of the current fossil fuel-based system into place-based, sustainable, equitable, and democratically controlled economies-have attempted to capture the potential of these changes to realize a low-carbon electricity system through new and more equitable electricity generation and procurement models. Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) is one such utility-scale electricity service provision model in California that explicitly aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the provision of locally produced and democratically controlled renewable energy that simultaneously catalyzes localized economic development. Although community choice aggregation is a twenty-year-old electricity procurement and provision model, the growth of CCAs have been slow; they have only been legalized in seven states since its inception in 1997. To date, limited academic research has been conducted to examine the barriers to the growth of community choice aggregation Furthermore, this research does not connect CCA to larger strategies to enable such a Just Transition, nor does it identify policy levers to bolster community choice aggregators' ability to deliver on their stated goals. This thesis therefore examines the barriers to realizing community choice aggregation To do so, I conducted semi-structured interviews with individuals essential to the creation of six existing and two emerging community choice aggregators in California. I find that while exit fees, customer opt-outs, and financing remain persistent challenges to CCA formation, new CCA networks, and grassroots coalitions for a Just Transition have allowed CCAs to overcome these barriers. Additionally, I observed that for community choice aggregators, maintaining business functions and ensuring ratepayer-based revenue take precedence over catalyzing economic development. Ultimately, I find that while the CCA market has experienced significant development, allowing them to provide ratepayers cost competitive renewable energy, community choice aggregators have not matured to a point where they are able to meaningfully catalyze local economic development or deepen civic engagement in energy-related decisions at a local level. In order to transform those challenges into opportunities for deepening civic engagement and community wealth for (low-income) communities (of color) and further realize a vision of a just transition, this thesis concludes with proposed state regulatory changes to catalyze mutually beneficial "public-public" relationships between CCAs, electricity co-operatives, and unions to further advance a Just Transition, and help community choice aggregators deliver on their goals.
by Samuel Jung.
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Jones, Samantha Kacie. "More than Just Parents: The Importance of Siblings as Supportive Others During the Transition to College." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1430841871.
Full textBeverly, Walker V. ""I JUST GOT OUT; I NEED A PLACE TO LIVE": A BUSINESS PLAN FOR TRANSITIONAL HOUSING." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/771.
Full textGamman, Richard. "English is more than just literacy : pupils' experiences of learning English at transition from primary to secondary school." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289651.
Full textCohen, Yael R. "THE OBSTACLES TO THE INTEGRATION OF MUSLIMS IN GERMANY AND FRANCE: HOW MUSLIMS AND THE STATES IMPAIR THE SMOOTH TRANSITION FROM IMMIGRANT TO CITIZEN." John Carroll University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=jcu1304962476.
Full textEskauriatza, Javier Sebastian. "Does the 'jus post bellum' help practitioners to identify the law on transitional criminal justice in post-conflict Colombia?" Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8604/.
Full textBowyer, Laura. "Eventually you just get used to it : an interpretative phenomenological analysis of 10-16 year-old girls' experiences of the transition into temporary accommodation after exposure to domestic violence perpetrated by men against their mothers." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.540733.
Full textWetter, Linda, and Oskar Sundholm. "Rättvisa på väg : En granskning av miljörättvisa i strategier för omställningen till fossiloberoende transportsektor i Jönköpings län." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Jönköping University, HLK, Globala studier, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-49916.
Full textSyftet med studien är att undersöka hur strategier och planer för omställningen till en fossilfri fordonssektor tar hänsyn till miljörättvisa i dessa planer på en regional nivå. Detta utifrån ett teoretiskt ramverk baserat på miljörättvisa och ett juridisk geografiskt perspektiv. Det empiriska material som ligger till grund för studien har tagits fram genom kvalitativ innehållsanalys av regionala och kommunala planer och strategier samt semistrukturerade intervjuer med aktörer i omställningen. För att uppnå syftet undersöktes vilka strategier som framträdde i dokumenten, samt hur aktörer resonerade kring dessa strategier med hjälp av perspektiv av miljörättvisa. Studien har fokuserat på ett område där en kunskapslucka har kunnat konstaterats i tidigare forskning. Resultatet visar att det saknas ett tydligt perspektiv av miljörättvisa i planerna och strategierna i Jönköpings län och att det behövs tas större hänsyn till rättviseperspektiven i dessa. Detta uppnås genom olika former av rättvisa: fördelande, deltagande, erkännande och reperativ.
Shakespear, Mark. "Renewed power to the people? The political ecology of Canadian energy transitions." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/12097.
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Silva, João Francisco Passanha Baptista da. "European Green Deal : transição ecológica em prejuízo da coesão? : análise ao Fundo de Transição Justa, sob a perspetiva portuguesa." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/33457.
Full textThis dissertation focuses on the Just Transition Fund, the main instrument of the Just Transition Mechanism, created by the European Commission, to assist the process of ecological conversion that the Union proposes to embark on, through the European Green Deal. The main aim is to ascertain whether the Just Transition Fund, as formulated3, ensures an effectively just transition to a green and circular economy, especially with regard to the Portuguese situation, as an EU Member State that is the recipient of cohesion policies. To this end, we proceeded to the treatment and analysis of concepts central to the theme of the thesis: green economy and circular economy, just transition, and European cohesion. Having established how the aforementioned concepts should be interpreted and applied throughout the thesis, there followed the identification of the political challenges that the European Union faces to execute an ecological transition, as well as an analysis of the composition and functioning of the Just Transition Fund, an analysis regarding what is expected to be its intervention in Portugal, and to its allocation method, according to its current formulation4. Based on the conclusions reached throughout the body of the dissertation, it ends with the substantiated negative answer to the starting question.
Luck, Kerrie. "Occupational Transition of Smoking Cessation in Women: More than Just Butting Out." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/21440.
Full textKulpas, Kathleen Isobel Wilk. "Just thinking about a transitional approach to gender equality right education." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5245.
Full textEvans, Geoffrey. "A just transition to sustainability in a climate change hot spot: the Hunter Valley, Australia." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/802944.
Full textThis thesis uses a transdisciplinary, sustainability-science approach to investigate the dialectics and potential for the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Australia, to make a transition to sustainability. The Hunter Valley, one of Australia’s historic food, wine and grain breadbaskets, is now home to over 50 opencut and underground black coal mines and is one of the world’s major coalmining and exporting regions. It is Australia’s largest black coal electricity generating region where six coal-fired power stations generate 40% of Australia’s electricity supply. The carbon intensity of the Hunter Valley’s economy makes the region Australia’s largest direct and indirect contributor to global carbon dioxide emissions. The region is a climate change hot spot that embodies the challenges and opportunities confronting Australia if it is to move towards a clean, renewable energy future and ecologically and socially-sustainable economy. The study examines the Hunter Valley as a complex adaptive socio-ecological system nested in an extended panarchy (Gunderson and Holling, 2002) that includes global energy systems and the ecosphere. The research examines the linked ecological and social health impacts of different scenarios for the Hunter Valley, comparing its current status – given the name Carbon Valley (Ray, 2005a) – with an alternative socio-ecological regime described by local residents as a Future Beyond Coal (CAN, 2006). This Future Beyond Coal is a regional manifestation of what Heinberg (2004) calls, at a global scale, a Post-carbon Society. Transdisciplinary sustainability-science is used to examine complex processes in which Hunter Valley residents are dealing with linked ecosystem-human health distress, while developing capacity for anticipating and forging change towards sustainability. They are also boosting the resilience of desirable states while challenging the perverse resilience of coal dependency. The thesis examines the potential for a ‘Just Transition’ to sustainability, a social and economic restructuring process which aspires to move the region’s socio-ecological relationships rapidly towards sustainability through protecting the wellbeing of vulnerable workers, communities and ecosystems. It investigates hegemonic relationships within coal communities, and the role popular education and social learning are playing in building a social movement for sustainability, a movement that links local, regional and global attractors and disturbances in order to change the basin of attraction from the current non-sustainable coal-dependent society to one that is ecologically sustainable and socially just.
Evans, Geoffrey. "A just transition to sustainability in a climate change hot spot: the Hunter Valley, Australia." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/802944.
Full textThis thesis uses a transdisciplinary, sustainability-science approach to investigate the dialectics and potential for the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Australia, to make a transition to sustainability. The Hunter Valley, one of Australia’s historic food, wine and grain breadbaskets, is now home to over 50 opencut and underground black coal mines and is one of the world’s major coalmining and exporting regions. It is Australia’s largest black coal electricity generating region where six coal-fired power stations generate 40% of Australia’s electricity supply. The carbon intensity of the Hunter Valley’s economy makes the region Australia’s largest direct and indirect contributor to global carbon dioxide emissions. The region is a climate change hot spot that embodies the challenges and opportunities confronting Australia if it is to move towards a clean, renewable energy future and ecologically and socially-sustainable economy. The study examines the Hunter Valley as a complex adaptive socio-ecological system nested in an extended panarchy (Gunderson and Holling, 2002) that includes global energy systems and the ecosphere. The research examines the linked ecological and social health impacts of different scenarios for the Hunter Valley, comparing its current status – given the name Carbon Valley (Ray, 2005a) – with an alternative socio-ecological regime described by local residents as a Future Beyond Coal (CAN, 2006). This Future Beyond Coal is a regional manifestation of what Heinberg (2004) calls, at a global scale, a Post-carbon Society. Transdisciplinary sustainability-science is used to examine complex processes in which Hunter Valley residents are dealing with linked ecosystem-human health distress, while developing capacity for anticipating and forging change towards sustainability. They are also boosting the resilience of desirable states while challenging the perverse resilience of coal dependency. The thesis examines the potential for a ‘Just Transition’ to sustainability, a social and economic restructuring process which aspires to move the region’s socio-ecological relationships rapidly towards sustainability through protecting the wellbeing of vulnerable workers, communities and ecosystems. It investigates hegemonic relationships within coal communities, and the role popular education and social learning are playing in building a social movement for sustainability, a movement that links local, regional and global attractors and disturbances in order to change the basin of attraction from the current non-sustainable coal-dependent society to one that is ecologically sustainable and socially just.
McKinnon, Amy. "More than just a phase : the discursive constructions of childhood as a transitional identity." Thesis, 2007. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/975794/1/MR40822.pdf.
Full textMarques, Élson Alexandre Cidade. "Is the driver ready to receive just car information in the windshield during manual and autonomous driving?" Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/19975.
Full textAutomation is changing the world. As in aviation, the car manufacturers are currently developing autonomous vehicles. However, the autonomy of that vehicles isn’t complete, still being needed in certain moments the driver on ride. The way how is done this transition between manual and autonomous driving and how show this information to the driver is a challenge for Ergonomics. New displays are being studied to facilitate these transitions. This study used a driving simulator to investigates, whether augmented reality information can positively influence the user experience during manual and autonomous driving. Therefore, we compared two ways of present the communicate to the driver. The “AR concept” displays all the information in windshield to be easier to the driver access to the information. The “IC concept” displays the information that appears nowadays in the cars, where they use the Instrument Cluster and the e-HUD to display information. Results indicate that the user experience (UX) is influence by concepts, where “AR concept” had better UX in all the states. In terms of confidence, the results revealed higher scores in “AR concept” too. The type of concept does not influence the takeover times or the behavior of take control. In terms of situational awareness (SA), “AR concept” leave the drivers more aware during availability and activation. This study provides implications for automotive companies developing the next generation of car displays.
Soiferman, Lisa Karen. ""University and high school are just very different" student perceptions of their respective writing environments in high school and first-year university." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/13237.
Full textPatočka, Josef. "Odborové svazy: opora fosilní ekonomiky, nebo subjekt sociálně-ekologické transformace?" Master's thesis, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-410703.
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