Toward Just Transitions: Visions for Regenerative Communities in Appalachia

Central Appalachia has long endured the exploitation of its abundant natural resources, like timber and coal, and suffered the ensuing fallout, including high poverty, low educational attainment, and persistent health and environmental problems. In Toward Just Transitions, editors Shaunna L. Scott and Kathryn Engle explore the regional damage wrought by extractive capitalism and outline the need for "just transitions."

A just transition is "a vision-led, unifying, and place-based set of prin...