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The page for information and registration is moved to https://www.mah.se/energyjustice2018

 

Organizer: Anders Melin (anders.melin@mau.se)

The third publication from the project is the following book chapter: Köckler, Heike, Deguen, Severiné, Ranzi, Andrea, Melin, Anders, Walker, Gordon: “Environmental Justice in Western Europe”, in R. Holifield, J. Chakraborty, G. Walker (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice, Abingdon: Routledge, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-138-93282-1, pp. 627-640.

Tulsa Jansson, PhD-candidate, has published an article with the title “Sen’s Perfectionist “Reason to Value” in “Public Reason: Journal of Political and Moral Philosophy”, Vol. 7, No. 1-2, 2015 (http://www.publicreason.ro/home).

The first article from the project, Melin, Anders, Kronlid, David: “Should We Ascribe Capabilities to Animals?  A Critical Analysis of the Extension of Nussbaum’s Capabilities Approach”, have been published in “De Ethica” (http://www.de-ethica.com/).

13-15th of June we will be attending the second conference on the role of Social Science in the Energy transition. http://www.delegia.com/app/attendee/default.asp?ProjectId=7056&PageId=41699

The SENIX Conferences help bridging the gap between present day conditions and full recognition of the necessity to bring in the social issues up-front in energy policies, programmes and projects. On May 25-27, 2015 the first SENIX conference was  held in Stockholm and the programme is available on the web site www.delegia.com/senix2015. Anders Melin and Tulsa Jansson presented papers on the 2015 conference. In June Tulsa Jansson will be leading a community of inquiry on the topic of development.

In March we attended the one day conference in Stockholm on  tendencies, techniques and opinions related to Swedish Energy Policies.

Tulsa and Anders participated in the conference “Ethics and Governance of Energy Technologies” at Eindhoven University of Technology on the 15th-16th of January. Here is the programme: http://ethicsandtechnology.eu/news/workshop-ethics-and-governance-of-energy-technologies/. Anders was one of the keynote presenters, here is the powerpoint: https://mah.box.com/s/dma7tvtceesx5hoqj1pr7uaexajmmryz.

This is the blogg of the research project “Energy and Justice – an Ethical Analysis of Swedish Energy Politics, based on the Capability Approach”. The project participants are Associate Professor Anders Melin, Associate Professor David Kronlid and PhD-candidate Tulsa Jansson.