Analytical Framework Inclusive Development, Justice and Energy Transition

Understanding how fossil fuels can be rapidly phased out in a just man­ner requires an analytical framework. This chapter combines an energy transition framework with an inclusive development framework. The energy transition is about how niche ideas can become regimes and then cause landscape transformation. Inclusive development focuses on social inclusiveness, ecological inclusiveness and relational inclusiveness. This chapter aims to create an analytical framework for this book (and future studies) to analyse whether ideas of energy transformations are in a niche or transformation stage and whether they are socially, ecologically and relationally inclusive. It also looks at the role of key actors—local groups (through using theories of social movements), investors and producers, and states in the phasing-out of fossil fuel and niche ideas that they are promoting.