Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic for a carbon-constrained world: Insights for sustainability transitions, energy justice, and research methodology

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2020.101701

	Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic for a carbon-constrained world: Insights for sustainability transitions, energy justice, and research methodology
	Sovacool, Benjamin K.1,2; Del Rio, Dylan Furszyfer 1,3; Griffiths, Steve 4
	2020-10
发表期刊	ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISSN	2214-6296
EISSN	2214-6326
摘要	The global Covid-19 pandemic has rapidly overwhelmed our societies, shocked the global economy and overburdened struggling health care systems and other social institutions around the world. While such impacts of Covid-19 are becoming clearer, the implications of the disease for energy and climate policy are more prosaic. This Special Section seeks to offer more clarity on the emerging connections between Covid-19 and energy supply and demand, energy governance, future low-carbon transitions, social justice, and even the practice of research methodology. It features articles that ask, and answer: What are the known and anticipated impacts of Covid-19 on energy demand and climate change? How has the disease shaped institutional responses and varying energy policy frameworks, especially in Africa? How will the disease impact ongoing social practices, innovations and sustainability transitions, including not only renewable energy but also mobility? How might the disease, and social responses to it, exacerbate underlying patterns of energy poverty, energy vulnerability, and energy injustice? Lastly, what challenges and insights does the pandemic offer for the practice of research, and for future research methodology? We find that without careful guidance and consideration, the brave new age wrought by Covid-19 could very well collapse in on itself with bloated stimulus packages that counter sustainability goals, misaligned incentives that exacerbate climate change, the entrenchment of unsustainable practices, and acute and troubling consequences for vulnerable groups.
关键词	Coronavirus Covid-19 Energy policy Climate policy Energy governance Sustainability transitions
DOI	10.1016/j.erss.2020.101701
WOS关键词	ELECTRICITY DEMAND ; POLICY
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS类目	Environmental Studies
出版者	ELSEVIER
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文献类型	期刊论文
专题	新冠肺炎循证社会科学证据集成
作者单位	1.Univ Sussex; 2.Aarhus Univ; 3.Queens Univ Belfast; 4.Khalifa Univ Sci & Technol
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sovacool, Benjamin K.,Del Rio, Dylan Furszyfer,Griffiths, Steve. Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic for a carbon-constrained world: Insights for sustainability transitions, energy justice, and research methodology[J]. ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE,2020.
APA	Sovacool, Benjamin K.,Del Rio, Dylan Furszyfer,&Griffiths, Steve.(2020).Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic for a carbon-constrained world: Insights for sustainability transitions, energy justice, and research methodology.ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE.
MLA	Sovacool, Benjamin K.,et al."Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic for a carbon-constrained world: Insights for sustainability transitions, energy justice, and research methodology".ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE (2020).