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Raphael J. Heffron is affiliated with the University of Pau and the Adour Region in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Energy, with significant contributions to Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Pollution, Sociology and Political Science, General Energy, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Their work explores multiple topics including Energy and Environment Impacts, Global Energy Security and Policy, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy, Environmental law and policy, Mining and Resource Management, and International Environmental Law and Policies.

Among recent publications by Raphael J. Heffron are:

  • Industrial demand-side flexibility: A key element of a just energy transition and industrial development (2020), published in Applied Energy
  • Applying energy justice into the energy transition (2021), published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • The role of justice in developing critical minerals (2020), published in The Extractive Industries and Society

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Heffron include Mohammad Hazrati, Darren McCauley, Marc-Fabian Körner, Jonathan Wagner, and Martin Weibelzahl.

Heffron has published in several notable venues, with multiple contributions in Global Energy Law and Sustainability, Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law, Energy Research & Social Science, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, and Energy Policy.

The scholar has also contributed to book publications with titles such as:

  • The Rise of Restorative Justice in the Energy Transition and for Climate Mitigation (2024)
  • The Power of Energy Justice & the Social Contract (2023)
  • Renegotiating Contracts for the Energy Transition in the Extractives Industry (2023)
  • Energy Law: An Introduction (2021)
  • The Future of Just Transitions (2024)

Best Publications

  • Energy decisions reframed as justice and ethical concerns

    Benjamin K. Sovacool;Benjamin K. Sovacool;Raphael J. Heffron;Darren McCauley;Andreas Goldthau;Andreas Goldthau

  • Just transition: Integrating climate, energy and environmental justice

    Darren M. McCauley;Raphael Heffron

  • The concept of energy justice across the disciplines

    Raphael J. Heffron;Darren McCauley

  • Energy justice in the transition to low carbon energy systems: Exploring key themes in interdisciplinary research

    Darren Andrew McCauley;Vasna Ramasar;Raphael Heffron;Benjamin Sovacool;Benjamin Sovacool

  • Resolving society's energy trilemma through the Energy Justice Metric

    Raphael J. Heffron;Darren McCauley;Benjamin K. Sovacool;Benjamin K. Sovacool

  • Advancing energy justice: The triumvirate of tenets

    Darren A McCauley;Raphael J Heffron;Hannes Stephan;Kirsten Jenkins

  • What is the ‘Just Transition’?

    Raphael J. Heffron;Raphael J. Heffron;Darren McCauley

  • A treatise for energy law

    Raphael J. Heffron;Raphael J. Heffron;Anita Ronne;Joseph P. Tomain;Adrian Bradbrook

  • The evolution of energy law and energy jurisprudence: Insights for energy analysts and researchers

    Raphael J. Heffron;Kim Talus;Kim Talus

  • Energy justice in the Arctic: Implications for energy infrastructural development in the Arctic

    Darren McCauley;Raphael Heffron;Maria Pavlenko;Robert Wilhelm Michael Rehner

  • The development of energy law in the 21st century: a paradigm shift?

    Raphael J Heffron;Kim Talus

  • Energy Justice, a Whole Systems Approach

    Kirsten Jenkins;Darren A McCauley;Raphael J Heffron;Hannes Stephan

  • Conceptualising restorative justice in the energy Transition: Changing the perspectives of fossil fuels

    M. Hazrati;R.J. Heffron;R.J. Heffron

  • Advancing energy justice : the triumvirate of tenets and systems thinking

    Darren McCauley;Raphael Heffron;Hannes Stephan;Kirsten Elizabeth Harrison Jenkins

  • Justice in solar energy development

    R. Heffron;R. Heffron;Stephanie Halbrügge;Marc Fabian Körner;Nana A. Obeng-Darko

  • The Palgrave handbook of the international political economy of energy

    Kirsten Jenkins;Raphael J. Heffron;Darren McCauley

  • The role of justice in developing critical minerals.

    Raphael J Heffron

  • Balancing the energy trilemma through the Energy Justice Metric

    Raphael J. Heffron;Darren McCauley;Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens

  • The global nuclear liability regime post Fukushima Daiichi

    Raphael J. Heffron;Stephen F. Ashley;William J. Nuttall

  • The emergence of the ‘social licence to operate’ in the extractive industries?

    Raphael J. Heffron;Lauren Downes;Oscar M. Ramirez Rodriguez;Darren McCauley

  • The Political Economy of Energy Justice: A Nuclear Energy Perspective

    Kirsten Jenkins;Raphael J. Heffron;Darren McCauley

  • Global energy justice: problems, principles and practices, B.K. Sovacool, M.H. Dworkin. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom (2014), p. 391, £22.99, ISBN: 978-1-107-66508-8

    Raphael J. Heffron

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin K. Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool University of Sussex
Jerry Blackford
Jerry Blackford Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Abdirahman M Omar
Abdirahman M Omar NORCE Research
Anthony W. Thomas
Anthony W. Thomas University of Adelaide

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