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Kirsten Jenkins

Researcher at University of Edinburgh

Publications -  58
Citations -  3874

Kirsten Jenkins is an academic researcher from University of Edinburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Economic Justice & Energy policy. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 51 publications receiving 2298 citations. Previous affiliations of Kirsten Jenkins include University of Brighton & University of Sussex.

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An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an extensive review and an updated research agenda for the field, classified into nine main themes: understanding transitions; power, agency and politics; governing transitions; civil society, culture and social movements; businesses and industries; transitions in practice and everyday life; geography of transitions; ethical aspects; and methodologies.
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Energy justice : a conceptual review

TL;DR: Energy justice has emerged as a new crosscutting social science research agenda which seeks to apply justice principles to energy policy, energy production and systems, energy consumption, energy activism, energy security and climate change.

Advancing energy justice: The triumvirate of tenets

TL;DR: In this paper, a new research agenda in "energy justice" is proposed, which challenges researchers to address justice-based concerns within energy systems, from production to consumption, from the time of Aristotle to the present day.
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Reducing energy demand through low carbon innovation: A sociotechnical transitions perspective and thirteen research debates

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that a socio-technical transition perspective is more suited to address the complexity of the challenges involved, and identify and describe thirteen debates in socio technical transitions research, organized under the headings of emergence, diffusion and impact, as well as more synthetic crosscutting issues.
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Humanizing sociotechnical transitions through energy justice: an ethical framework for global transformative change

TL;DR: In this article, a multi-level perspective on sociotechnical systems and an integration of energy justice at the model's niche, regime and landscape level is explored, arguing that inattention to social justice issues can cause injustices whereas attention to them can provide a means to examine and potential resolve them.