Energy Transition, Environmental Governance, and Household Welfare

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Dear Colleagues,

The global shift from fossil fuels to renewable and low-carbon energy is key to mitigating climate change and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The energy transition profoundly affects household welfare, especially for low-income, rural, and marginalized groups facing energy insecurity and environmental risks. Energy transition policies generate both long-term benefits and short-term distributional challenges, while environmental governance shapes the equity, efficiency, and resilience of low-carbon energy systems.

This Research Topic welcomes interdisciplinary research on the interactions among energy transition, environmental governance, and household welfare. We invite contributions from energy economics, environmental policy, sustainable development, and related social sciences, aiming to provide actionable insights for designing inclusive, efficient, and sustainable energy systems worldwide.

Dr. Kui Liu
Dr. Zhili Du
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Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
Clean Technologies cleantechnol	5.9	9.4	2019	20.9 Days	CHF 1800	Submit
Sci sci	4.1	5.4	2019	28.2 Days	CHF 1400	Submit
Social Sciences socsci	2.0	3.5	2012	30.3 Days	CHF 1800	Submit
Sustainability sustainability	4.1	8.9	2009	16.9 Days	CHF 2400	Submit
World world	2.8	-	2020	29.5 Days	CHF 1200	Submit

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Cooking Energy Transition and Rural Household Development Resilience: Evidence from China

by Jinqiong Ouyang, Yu He and Yihang Hu

Sustainability 2026, 18(16), 8398; https://doi.org/10.3390/su18168398 - 17 Aug 2026

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The global shift toward clean and low-carbon household energy is central to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and improving welfare in developing countries, yet it also raises distributional concerns about who benefits and who is left behind. Using five rounds of data from [...] Read more.

The global shift toward clean and low-carbon household energy is central to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and improving welfare in developing countries, yet it also raises distributional concerns about who benefits and who is left behind. Using five rounds of data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) spanning 2014–2022, this study employs a two-way fixed-effects model with province and year dummies and the Bootstrap method to examine the association between cooking energy transition and rural household development resilience. The results show that the share of traditional solid fuels (fuelwood and coal) declined from 56.29% in 2014 to 36.56% in 2022, while the share of fossil gas rose from 22.26% to 39.91%, indicating a transitional stage in rural cooking energy use. Cooking energy transition is positively associated with rural household development resilience. Household education and farmers’ digital literacy are positively associated with both cooking energy transition and household development resilience, suggesting they may be relevant channels. The association is more pronounced among households with a low elderly dependency ratio, poor infrastructure accessibility, and adequate energy affordability, underscoring that the benefits of energy transition are not evenly distributed. These findings highlight the importance of inclusive and differentiated energy policies for ensuring that the gains from clean cooking reach the most vulnerable rural households. Full article

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