"More than forty years after his pathbreaking book Power and Powerlessness was published, John Gaventa and his coauthor Gabe Schwartzman return to the Appalachian Valley to explore the question of what a post-coal future looks like in a world in transition. The result, Power and Just Transitions, is a hugely impressive, rich but accessible, engaged and rigorous study of the struggles over a just transition away from fossil fuels that will be of interest to a growing community of scholars and activists keen to ensure that collective responses to climate change do not further marginalize those who have already suffered so much in the name of 'development'. I wholeheartedly recommend this critically important book."
—Peter Newell, author of Power Shift: The Global Political Economy of Energy Transitions
"A tour de force! Essential analysis for all concerned about economic development, community organizing and environmental policies that move us towards truly just, post-coal futures in Appalachia and beyond."
—Barbara Ellen Smith, author of Digging
