Eco-Welfare and Energy: Navigating an Emerging Interplay

To navigate the interplay between eco-welfare and energy, this chapter is dedicated to the discussion of energy as a socio-technical system, to acknowledge that low-carbon transition processes entail social and technological implications. In this socio-technical framework, three implications are identified to strengthen the interaction between energy and eco-welfare: justice implications, related to the key notion of energy justice, socio-ecological implications, related to the societal challenges in a time of climate change, and spatial implications of energy justice. This triad leads to the issue of energy inequalities, which are increasingly the object of concerns.