气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): The spatial economics of energy justice: modelling the trade impacts of increased transport costs in a low carbon transition and the implications for UK regional inequality

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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111378
	The spatial economics of energy justice: modelling the trade impacts of increased transport costs in a low carbon transition and the implications for UK regional inequality
	Olner D.; Mitchell G.; Heppenstall A.; Pryce G.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	03014215
卷号	140
英文摘要	Spatial economic change is an energy justice issue (Bouzarovski and Simcock, 2017) - an essential consideration in how we choose to re-wire the economy for a carbon-free future. Nothing like the conscious system-wide change required has been attempted before. Rapid policy decisions risk embedding existing injustices or creating new ones unless steps are taken to ameliorate those risks. We present a model that takes a whole-system view of the UK spatial economy, examining how increasing distance costs (e.g. through fuel tax hikes) have unequal impacts on regions and sectors. The model establishes an important carbon transition policy principle: change in spatial flows of internal trade, which are certain to occur rapidly during transition, have measurable energy justice implications. Peripheral economic regions, in rural and coastal areas and many city outskirts are most vulnerable, as are petrochemical, agricultural and connected sectors. Policy must go beyond identifying places and sectors most affected: it is the connections between them that matter most. The “push” of spatially aware fiscal policy needs to be combined with the “pull” of targeted interventions designed to promote low-carbon intermediate connections. This is not only just, but would help make (potentially costly) transition more politically acceptable. © 2020 The Authors
关键词	Energy Energy justice Industry Just transition Spatial economy Trade
英文关键词	Carbon; Commerce; Fuel economy; Industry; Economic regions; Energy; Energy justices; Essential considerations; Just transition; Low-carbon transitions; Policy decisions; Spatial economy; Costs; decision making; energy market; energy policy; fiscal policy; policy approach; spatial analysis; trade relations; United Kingdom
语种	英语
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/204806
作者单位	University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom; University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Olner D.,Mitchell G.,Heppenstall A.,et al. The spatial economics of energy justice: modelling the trade impacts of increased transport costs in a low carbon transition and the implications for UK regional inequality[J],2020,140.
APA	Olner D.,Mitchell G.,Heppenstall A.,&Pryce G..(2020).The spatial economics of energy justice: modelling the trade impacts of increased transport costs in a low carbon transition and the implications for UK regional inequality.Energy Policy,140.
MLA	Olner D.,et al."The spatial economics of energy justice: modelling the trade impacts of increased transport costs in a low carbon transition and the implications for UK regional inequality".Energy Policy 140(2020).