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With apologies for cross-posting CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of Energy Research & Social Science: ‘Social Justice, Mobility and Energy Demand’ We are seeking authors who would like to contribute a paper to a journal Special Issue on ‘Social Justice, Mobility & Energy Demand’, to be published in Energy Research & Social Science. We particularly encourage research from international contexts outside of the UK and Europe, including work focused on the ‘global south’ and developing countries, along with Asia or Australasia. Papers topics should seek to address questions related to claims about mobility and/or energy rights and needs, policy making procedures, and distributional outcomes of policies that aim to influence the consumption of mobility and energy services. In order to add to our current selection of papers, we are especially interested in the following topics: - Inequalities in access to mobility and transport services between social groups (e.g. according to gender, age, location, circumstance)- How understandings of energy/mobility poverty and the ‘need’ for mobility and energy consumption varies across international and local contexts - Policy initiatives that seek to address the tension of meeting present human ‘needs’ with concerns for intergenerational justice and climate change mitigation (for example, the SLOCAT partnership, the UN SE4All Targets) - The justice implications of energy and fuel subsidies- Conceptualizing, defining and / or measuring ‘need’ in energy or mobility terms- The evolution and dynamics of ideas of need in different contexts, and their implications for energy demand Proposed timetableAuthors of accepted papers will have until May to send the first version of their paper to the Special Issue editors (for informal feedback). Revised versions of paper will then need to be submitted to the journal in July for full peer review. We expect that the Special Issue will be published in early 2016. To submitIf you are interested in contributing a paper, please send abstracts no more than 250 words, including title, author name(s), affiliation and email addresses, to either Neil Simcock ([log in to unmask]) or Caroline Mullen ([log in to unmask]) by no later than Sunday, March 1, 2015. Only a selected number of abstracts will be accepted. Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be invited to submit full papers. Manuscripts should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words, including abstract and a maximum of 6 keywords. Relevant information and further details on the submission guidelines are available on the ‘Guide for Authors’ page of the Energy Research & Social Science website. Before submitting a manuscript, please visit the page, at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy-research-and-social-science. Please indicate clearly that the paper is to be considered as a contribution to the special issue. All submitted manuscripts will be refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. They should not have been previously published, nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Only manuscripts written in English will be accepted. Outline of Special Issue context and aimsThe scale of carbon reduction required to limit dangerous climate change is increasingly held to require significant intervention into patterns and levels of energy demand, including into reshaping domestic energy consumption and mobility practices. This brings with it a number of dilemmas, and an emerging research agenda has particularly highlighted the relations and potential tensions between energy use, carbon reduction and social justice. Research on energy and mobility poverty identifies that certain amounts, forms and arrangements of energy consumption may be considered necessary for a minimally decent quality of life and adequate social participation. In ‘industrial’ nations, goals of reducing or managing energy demand and altering patterns of mobility may thus be in tension with claims seeking to sustain energy needs or rights. Meanwhile, in a ‘developing’ world context, research and activism has emphasised the importance of access to electricity, physical accessibility and mobility, and energy consumption in enhancing citizens’ capabilities and quality of life. Yet high energy consumption is also associated with a range of major injustices, such as the impact on current and future generations who face resource scarcity and climate change. Another injustices stem from the multiple inequalities affecting health, welfare and quality of life, resulting from policies, cultures and infrastructures that favour high energy, car-dependent forms of mobility. Without proper consideration, policy measures designed to govern, manage or restrict energy demand risk exacerbating existing inequalities or creating new forms of deprivation. While the significance of energy and mobility justice is becoming increasingly recognized, work in this area is still relatively underdeveloped. Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue is to make a substantial contribution to understanding the theoretical and applied aspects of energy and mobility justice. The Special Issue sits well within the aims and scope of Energy Research and Social Science, given both its subject which focuses on a central issue in the relationship between energy systems and society, and its inter-disciplinary and international approach. Dr Neil Simcock Research Associate - Energy, Need and Justice DEMAND Centre, Lancaster University http://www.demand.ac.uk/research-themes/theme-4-normality-need-and-entitlement/4-1-energy-and-justice/