公正な移行と体制不安定化をサブレジーム間相互作用で結びつける：韓国の石炭火力撤退からの証拠

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🔬研究者:Provides a novel sub-regime interaction framework linking just transition and regime destabilization, useful for energy transition research.

🏢実務担当者:Highlights the need for integrated approaches across policy, labor, and regional dimensions in corporate and regional transition planning.

🏛政策担当者:Emphasizes that addressing sub-regimes separately is insufficient; policy must consider their interactions to enable just transitions.

Although just transition in coal phase-out has received considerable policy and societal attention, research has yet to explain how it is impeded structurally by interactions among sub-regimes within an incumbent energy system. We investigated how the coal regime structure was stabilized through interactions among the electricity policy, labor market, and affected region sub-regimes. To explore coal regime structure and its potential toward destabilization under the coal phase-out policy and just transition in South Korea, we conducted in-depth interviews with 18 representatives, systematically recruited from the coal power industry and its policy sector. Data analysis revealed the following findings. First, the electricity policy sub-regime is characterized by centralized state decision-making and limited proactiveness among public power generation companies. Second, the labor market sub-regime demonstrates uneven employment impacts within a multi-layered structure spanning public power generation companies and subcontractors. Third, the affected region sub-regime plays a limited role in the transition process owing to constrained legal and fiscal autonomy. Our analysis shows that interactions among these sub-regimes mutually reinforce regime lock-in, explaining the slow pace of coal phase-out and persistent tensions for a just transition in South Korea. This framework explains why just transition is difficult to reach when each sub-regime is addressed separately, and their interactions are beyond the scope of analysis, leading to missing the intervention entry for destabilization. By linking regime destabilization theory with just transition imperatives, the sub-regime interaction framework provides a transferable analytical framework for equitable coal phase-out pathways beyond South Korea.

• openalex https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2026.101183first seen 2026-09-04 05:09:06