This academic paper provides a high-level, critical review of the overlapping disciplines of climate, energy, and environmental (CEE) justice. The authors examine the limitations of CEE research and argue that justice scholars should work together to present a united perspective on just transitions to increase public understanding and acceptance.

They present a framework for just transitions that borrows from the emerging area of “legal geography,” which allows for interdisciplinary study of the concept of justice as it applies across space and time. This framework integrates the separate CEE justice disciplines and accounts for different forms of justice (distributional, procedural, and restorative, as well as recognition and cosmopolitanism), the space where injustices occur, and the pace of the transition.