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- Title
Unpacking the global climate politics-to-local nexus: Renewables, community struggles, and social impacts.
- Authors
Martínez, Nain
- Abstract
Accelerating renewable energy deployment is imperative to address the climate crisis, yet projects commonly face community resistance and local cancellation. Accordingly, interest has risen in social impact assessments (SIAs) to evaluate social viability and strengthen management. However, mainstream approaches overlook upstream political economy dynamics that shape projects and drive opposition. Analyzing renewable developments in Mexico reveals how international negotiations and national policies produce rushed, large-scale projects in marginalized territories, igniting rural social struggles. While SIA practices can be enhanced, upstream policies constrain their scope to reshape misaligned projects and performance to address complex sociocultural contexts. This prompts questioning why vulnerable regions bear concentrated impacts and the need to explore alternative development pathways, despite SIAs implementation.
- Subjects
MEXICO; SOCIAL impact assessment; SOCIAL impact; CLIMATE change; RENEWABLE energy sources; CLIMATE justice; POPULATION viability analysis; MILITARY dependents; RURAL poor
- Publication
Current Sociology, 2024, Vol 72, Issue 4, p753
- ISSN
0011-3921
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00113921231203177