The literature on energy justice and environmental justice has been rapidly growing in the past decade.  While this body of research provides a plethora of perspectives on the procedural, distributive and recognition aspects of justice in relation to economic development, the focus on energy and/or environment often misses the importance of land and land use as central to conflicts that arise, particularly concerning development of energy infrastructure. In this research paper, we present the findings of an integrative literature review mapping how philosophical, normative and applied theories of justice have been operationalized in academic literature.

Our review focused on creating a holistic understanding of relevant literature for building a justice framework with land use and land use change at its core, as well as revealing gaps in understandings and conceptualisations in the justice literature relevant for land use change. 

The review revealed that there is a lack of criteria and sub categories that enables assessment of capabilities and procedural, distributive and recognition justice, as well as frameworks that integrates this with identification of pluralistic values tied to land. We have thus developed an analytical framework for assessing justice in land use processes and outcomes in cases related to the green energy transition. We have defined a set of criteria for each sub- set of justice, which also is tied to identification, attribution and recognition of pluralistic values. 

The review revealed that there is a lack of criteria and sub categories that enables assessment of capabilities and procedural, distributive and recognition justice, as well as frameworks that integrates this with identification of pluralistic values tied to land. We have thus developed an analytical framework for assessing justice in land use processes and outcomes in cases related to the green energy transition. We have defined a set of criteria for each sub- set of justice, which also is tied to identification, attribution and recognition of pluralistic values.