Risky energy geographies: From energy transition to disaster risk reduction

An energy transition is needed to mitigate climate change, but the shift to renewables is also a broader opportunity to reduce disaster risk. This article integrates perspectives from energy geographies and critical disaster studies to examine how energy transition intersects with disaster risk reduction. Unpacking the energy-disasters interface, ‘energy’ is conceptualised in two ways: first, as a hazard produced socio-naturally in energy hazardscapes; and second, as a requirement for people to achieve essential capabilities in the face of hazards. Scholarship on energy vulnerability and energy justice provides concepts for achieving more equitable disaster preparedness, recovery, and risk reduction.