Community wealth building in an age of just transitions: Exploring civil society approaches to net zero and future research synergies

M. Lacey-Barnacle, A. Smith and Timothy Foxon

Energy Policy, 2023, vol. 172, issue C

Abstract: Community Wealth Building (CWB) is a burgeoning international policy agenda for local economic development that seeks to enhance democratic ownership, retain the benefits of local economic activity and empower place-based economies and workers. Parallel to this, in the context of net zero transitions, there has been increasing interest in approaches to enhancing civil society and community ownership over local energy provision. However, in academic and practitioner debates, there has been very little interaction between these two strands of thinking and action on the need for radical change in current energy provision, particularly as part of a wider transformative change away from dominant neoliberal economic thinking, policies and structures.

Keywords: Community wealth building; Grassroots innovations; Transition pathways; Community energy; Just transitions; Economic democracy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113277

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