Spätestens seit "Fridays for Future" ist das Thema "Klimawandel" als eines der dringlichsten Probleme unserer Zeit erkannt worden. Doch trotz eindeutiger Verpflichtungen zu den Zielen des Pariser Weltklimaabkommens sind wir weit davon entfernt, diese auch zu erreichen - warum? Ihre Argumente...

This paper compares different just transition pathways in China, the European Union and the United States of America by comparing the current state of the coal sector and just transition policies away from coal. How can social justice in the energy transition be achieved under different models...

1. Introduction -- 2. Risk-based governance and analytical framework -- 3. Diffusion of the risk management model in the U.S. coal mining industry -- 4. Barriers to modeling the risk management approach in the American coal mining industry -- 5. Modeling risk-based system regulation in Australia...

How important was coal to the Industrial Revolution? Despite the huge growth of output, and the grip of coal and steam on the popular image of the Industrial Revolution, recent cliometric accounts have assumed coal mining mattered little to the Industrial Revolution. In contrast both E. A....