Adolfo Mejía-Montero is a lecturer in Energy, Society, and Sustainability at the University of Edinburgh, where he is part of the School of Social and Political Science's Department of Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies (STIS). He also serves as the director of the MSc programme in Energy, Society, and Sustainability within the School of Geosciences. With an interdisciplinary background in physics, engineering, and human geography, Adolfo has contributed to a wide range of research projects focused on energy justice, low¿carbon energy projects in indigenous territories, wind and solar power, mixed¿methods research, and sustainable energy systems, particularly in Latin America and the United Kingdom.

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1. Energy justice in Latin America: Exploring a growing agenda

Adolfo Mejía-Montero

PART I

Regional reflections on energy justice across Latin America

Chapter 2. Political Economy and Energy Justice: Rentier Dynamics in Fossil Extractivist States in Latin America

Rosa Lehmann and Pedro Alarcón

Chapter 3. Conflicts linked to critical minerals and renewables in South America - The hydropower and copper cases through the energy justice lens

Axel Bastián Poque González

Chapter 4. Searching for 'indigenous' energy justice: Case studies of Costa Rica's El Diquís and Panama's Barro Blanco hydroelectric projects

Nora Hampl

Chapter 5. Bioethical Aspects Related to Energy Poverty in Latin America: An Energy Justice Approach

Carlos Díaz-Rodríguez

Chapter 6. Wind turbine blades: An emerging energy justice agenda in Latin America.

Eduardo Martínez-Mendoza, Eduardo Fernández-Echeverría, Gregorio Fernández-Lambert, Marieli Lavoignet-Ruíz and Luis Enrique García-Santamaría

PART II

Lessons and experiences of low-carbon transitions and energy justice within national borders

Chapter 7. The Chilean Energy Transition through Energy Justice as a Policy Assessment Approach

Nicolás Silva Valenzuela

Chapter 8. Wind Farms Impacts and Energy Justice Relationships: The Case of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico

Eduardo Martínez-Mendoza and Luis Arturo Rivas-Tovar

Chapter 9. Exploring Bolivia's lithium ambition through an expanded energy justice lens

Romain Mauger and Paola Villavicencio-Calzadilla

Chapter 10. Astronomy and Energy Justice in the Atacama Desert

Paola Velasco Herrejón, Isabelle Viole, Guillermo Valenzuela-Venegas, Sabrina Sartori, Marianne Zeyringer.

PART II

Criticizing and expanding energy justice grounded on a Latin American perspective

Chapter 11. Constructing a regulatory framework for energy justice? Evidence from Ecuador

Mendieta-Vicuña, Diana and Esparcia, Javier

Chapter 12. How do you live and adapt to energy insecurity?

Gianna Monteiro Farias Simões and Solange Maria Leder

Chapter 13. Towards energy justice in Argentina. Learning from inclusion experiences.

Alejandra Ise, Silvina Carrizo, Luciana Clementi1 and Marie Forget

Chapter 14. Struggles for Pluriversal Fairness: Decolonizing energy justice through autonomous praxis in Mexico

Carlos Tornel

Chapter 15. Beyond Inclusion: Advocating for a Feminist Understanding of Energy Justice

Lillian Sol Cueva

CONCLUSION

Chapter 16. Powering Energy Justice in Latin America

Adolfo Mejía-Montero

Index