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Energy Scenarios and Justice Towards Future Humans: An Application of the Capabilities Approach to the Case of Swedish Energy Politics
Malmö Univ, Dept Global Polit Studies, Malmö, Sweden.
Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7956-6159
2019 (English)In: Etikk i praksis, ISSN 1890-3991, E-ISSN 1890-4009, Vol. 13, no 1, p. 39-54Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Energy production and consumption give rise to issues of justice for future humans. By analysing a specific case - Swedish energy politics - this article contributes to the discussion of how consideration for future humans should affect energy policy making. It outlines three different energy scenarios for the period 2035-2065 - the nuclear-renewables, the renewables-low and the renewables-high scenarios - and assesses them from the point of view of justice for future individuals by using the capabilities approach as a normative framework. We cannot make a definitive assessment of the different scenarios due to the great uncertainties involved in determining the impacts on individuals living between 2035 and 2065 and individuals born thereafter, but we still conclude that we have certain reasons to prefer the renewables-low scenario since it avoids certain risks connected with the other scenarios. The economic growth in this scenario is lower than in the others, but we question whether this is a disadvantage from the point of view of the capabilities approach.

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AKADEMIKA AS, AKADEMIKA FORLAG , 2019. Vol. 13, no 1, p. 39-54
Keywords [en]
energy scenarios, justice, future generations, capabilities approach
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Environmental Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-47957DOI: 10.5324/eip.v13i1.2749ISI: 000497172300004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85071870498OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-47957DiVA, id: diva2:1745508
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Swedish Research Council, 421-2013-781Available from: 2023-03-23 Created: 2023-03-23 Last updated: 2023-03-23Bibliographically approved

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