Are green jobs just jobs? Cadmium narratives in the life cycle of Photovoltaics
Are green jobs just jobs? Cadmium narratives in the life cycle of Photovoltaics
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绿色就业只是就业吗？
DOI：
10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.01.014
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发表时间：
2014
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Dustin Mulvaney
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作者：
Dustin Mulvaney
本文探讨了环境正义和绿色工作之间的紧张关系。光伏（PV）制造过程涉及与电子行业类似的危险化学品，其中地下水污染，工人接触化学品以及其他空气和水排放等影响与环境不平等重叠。在美国，镉基薄膜光伏得到了美国复苏和再投资法案的支持，产生了能源采购和发电的新政治生态配置，将马来西亚薄膜光伏工厂与美国西南沙漠的公共土地联系起来。通过整合全球商品链、政治生态学和科学技术研究中的传统，这项研究展示了生命周期评估如何被用来塑造关于薄膜光伏镉污染的辩论。由于指标有能力掩盖环境不公正，研究结果要求在解释生命周期评估时保持谦逊。
This paper explores a tension between environmental justice and green jobs. Photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing processes involve hazardous chemicals similar to those found in the electronics industry, where impacts such as groundwater contamination, worker exposures to chemicals, and other air and water emissions overlap with environmental inequality. In the US, cadmium-based thin-film PV was financed with support from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act producing new political ecological configurations of energy procurement and generation, linking Malaysian thin film PV fabs to public lands in the US desert southwest. By integrating traditions in global commodity chains, political ecology, and science and technology studies, this research shows how life cycle assessment was used to shape the debate about cadmium pollution from thin-film PV. As metrics have the power to obscure environmental injustice, the findings call for humility when interpreting life cycle assessment.
组建正义空间：英格兰东北部环境正义的标量政治
影响因子：
5
作者：
Bickerstaff K
通讯作者：
Bickerstaff K