Just Transition in an energy city: exploring the role of civil society
- Funder: Pump Priming Fund, University of Aberdeen
- Status: Ongoing (July 2022 – November 2022)
- Project lead: Tavis Potts
- Project team: John Bone, Tavis Potts, Camilla Seeland, Daria Shapovalova
- Project summary: Following the 2014 downturn of the oil and gas industry and exacerbated by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, a Net Zero transition is an opportunity for Aberdeen and the Northeast of Scotland to ‘reinvent itself’. There is an evidence gap on how civil society organisations in energy cities respond to energy transition, particularly in context of broader economic restructuring around Net Zero. This project explores the perspectives and mechanisms for civil society to engage with and enact a just transition in Aberdeen. It combines a rapid evidence review with key informant interviews targeting Aberdeen’s’ community sector with the aim to deliver the initial knowledge base of just transition in Aberdeen and frame future research on transitions in energy cities.
- Outputs:
- forthcoming