A Comparative Analysis of Foreign and Korean Literature on Just Transition Using Topic Modeling
이한비
Lee, Hanbee
Just transition originates from the labor movement urging to protect fossil fuel workers from the impact of low-carbon transition policies. It has evolved to address an integrated framework of climate, energy, and environmental justice during the transition to a low/zero-carbon society. Recent years have seen a rapid boom surrounding the theorization of just transition. However, relatively few studies have examined how the concept of just transition is applied to research across academic disciplines or under what research agenda just transition would encompass different concerns addressed by environmental, climate, and energy justice scholarship. Against this backdrop, this article sets out to investigate the main topics being discussed in just transition and climate-energy-environmental justice literature, and the similarities and differences between the global and Korean scholarship using topic modeling. The results demonstrate that city and local transitions have emerged as key topics while the focus of scholarly debates has shifted from regional pollution to global sustainability issues in the foreign literature after the Paris Agreement. In the Korean literature, institution-related topics rapidly increased after 2008, wherein green growth strategies were introduced. Yet, local issues, industry and jobs replaced these topics after the Paris Agreement. By comparing the results, the article draws implications for Korean scholarship to better understand just transition as an integrated framework of climate, energy, and environmental justice.
Just Transition, Climate Justice, Energy Justice, Environmental Justice, Topic Modeling
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