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To obtain knowledge about and be able to actively reflect upon core notions of justice as applied to sustainability, combining environmental, climate change, energy, and water viewpoints.
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This course is about the importance of normative reflection on securing sustainable development in various areas: to provide guidance in making, implementing and evaluating decisions and designing decision-making systems. Justice has become an important concept in the studies of sustainability, especially in environmental, climate change, energy and water governance, policy, and law. Currently, this is especially the case in view of the disruptive transitions that are deemed necessary to make major and urgent changes in socio-technical and socio-ecological systems to secure Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The concept of a just transition, about how to move from the present unsustainable to a future (more) sustainable development, involves all tenets of justice (i.e., recognition, procedural, substantive/distributive, cosmopolitan justice); one that not only looks at desired/just end-states, but also on how to get there in a just way. “Leaving nobody behind” (i.e., being inclusive, especially to vulnerable groups and in addressing energy poverty) is an important aspiration combining recognition, procedure and substantive concerns, as is “giving each person his or her due”. Of course, SDGs and principles of social justice, are never far away, and justice concerns also touch upon social, economic and ecological (including spatial) rivalries.
An important element of the course will be, not only to understand the discourse on sustainability and justice, and the leading definitions of concepts, but also to connect justice to frameworks and institutional settings for decision-making in relevant setting, such as of environmental, water en energy governance and justice.
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