ICT and Social and Criminal Justice; energy justice; energy transition; natural language processing; social justice; structured literature review
Abstract :
[en] The transition to net-zero energy is typically framed as an environmental sustainability challenge. However, this transition can only be successful if it also considers social sustainability. To provide a basis for this perspective in IS research, we conduct a scoping review on the current state of knowledge surrounding energy social justice. Our review combines traditional qualitative text analysis of 47 papers with natural language processing (NLP) on an expanded set of 267 papers. We find that social justice discussions have picked-up pace since 2016 with a noticeable jump in 2020. However, they focus only on specific topics and are limited to the energy and social sciences. To transfer concepts and knowledge from these disciplines into IS and guide the filling-in of blank spots, we present a conceptual framework for IS research on energy social justice.
Research center :
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > FINATRAX - Digital Financial Services and Cross-organizational Digital Transformations
Disciplines :
Management information systems Computer science
Author, co-author :
BRENNECKE, Martin ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > FINATRAX
JUREK, Dominik; UCB - University of California Berkeley [US-CA] > Haas School of Business
RIEGER, Alexander ; University of Luxembourg ; University of Arkansas > Sam M. Walton College of Business
ROTH, Tamara ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust > FINATRAX > Team Gilbert FRIDGEN ; University of Arkansas > Sam M. Walton College of Business
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Towards Social Justice in Energy Transitions: An Information Systems Perspective
Publication date :
03 January 2024
Event name :
Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Honolulu, USA
Event place :
Honolulu, United States - Hawaii
Event date :
3 to 6 January 2024
Audience :
International
Main work title :
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Publisher :
ScholarSpace, United States - Hawaii
Edition :
57
ISBN/EAN :
978-0-9981331-7-1
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Focus Area :
Security, Reliability and Trust
Development Goals :
1. No poverty 7. Affordable and clean energy 9. Industry, innovation and infrastructure 10. Reduced inequalities 11. Sustainable cities and communities 12. Responsible consumption and production
FnR Project :
FNR13342933 - Paypal-fnr Pearl Chair In Digital Financial Services, 2019 (01/01/2020-31/12/2024) - Gilbert Fridgen
FNR - Fonds National de la Recherche FNR - Luxembourg National Research Fund
Funding number :
13342933
Funding text :
This research was funded in part by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) and PayPal, PEARL grant reference 13342933/Gilbert Fridgen. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license to any author accepted manuscript version arising from this submission.
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