Just Green Transitions: Between terminological inexactitudes, conceptual fragmentation, and the exigency for a theoretical framework
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Just Green Transitions, European Green Deal, EU governance, territorial governance, socio-spatial justiceAbstract
The European Green Deal is promoting a twinned transition which is expected to be just and green. Various related terminologies have gained ground without being precisely defined or commonly agreed upon. Following an interdisciplinary exploratory approach, this contribution discusses the terminological inexactitudes which could risk a common conceptualisation, operationalisation, and implementation of the so-called Just Green Transitions. Through a critical interpretative literature review, this contribution highlights the conceptual fragmentation of these three dimensions: just as a polylemma of socio-spatial-temporal justice, green as a non-replication of pseudo-fashionable labels, and transitions as meta, multiple, and multilevel paths of institutional and social changes.
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